We know one of the great reasons to play board games is the social interaction.
Sitting down at a table face-to-face and engaging in a shared activity with family and friends is a lot of fun.
There’s also a great tactile element of fun to playing board games in moving items and cards around the table or on a board.
But it’s hard to ignore the tons of fun board games and card games that are now being published in digital form.
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Wow has car racing come a long way since I was a kid!
Bridging video games, mobile games, and physical track car racing, Anki Overdrive is a ton of fun!
Or as we like to call it in our house, Mario Kart Live.
Why? Because Anki Overdrive is the modern way to race cars in your living room.
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Parents around the world all know what it’s like trying to get their kids to clean their rooms. It’s a constant battle we all go through.
And even when a child says their room is clean, all it takes is a peak under their bed or in their closet to see where they really stashed everything.
Well, we’ve got just the game for you – Garbage Day!
In Garbage Day, no one wants to take out the garbage or clean their room. So players try to see how much garbage they can get away with stacking on the growing pile or stashing in their rooms.
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It’s time for a closer look at one of the games we included in our Game Gift Guide this year – Loony Quest.
We reviewed a predecessor to it last year called Doodle Quest and also included it in our 2015 Board Game Gift Guide.
While Doodle Quest is a fun drawing game and great for practicing spatial perception skills, Loony Quest amps up both the fun and the skill level to great effect.
And Loony Quest much better deserves its title of “Quest”.
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Once again it’s time for our annual Board Game Gift Guide!
The time of year when we share a bunch of ideas for fun games you can get your family and friends.
This year we’ve got a list of 42 fun board games, dice games, party games, and more.
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Growing up I loved going over to my friend’s house to play air hockey. I always thought it was so cool that he had an air hockey table. And I longed for the day when I’d be able to get my own air hockey table.
Well, I still don’t have an air hockey table.
But I do have plenty of other things to play with my kids.
And now this includes what I like to imagine as our mini air hockey table – KLASK.
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This time of year it’s popular among board game reviews to list their Top 100 games of all time.
However, we don’t want to do what everyone else is doing. Instead, we’re trying a new guideline for our favorite board games list.
We’ve narrowed our list down to our favorite games starting with each letter of the alphabet.
That’s right. It’s time to reveal our favorite family board games from A to Z!
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Sports are very popular themes for board games and card games.
Today we’re reviewing 3 such games by the Haywire Group: Jukem Football, Jukem Basketball, and Jukem Soccer.
As you’d guess from the titles, these 3 games share many common traits.
Yet the game experiences are distinct between the games.
See our breakdown of each game to find out for yourself.
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Gathering the whole family together to play a fun board game is a great way to spend an evening. However,
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In Speechless, players all take their turn at acting. However, when it’s a player’s turn, they have a limited time to act out 6 words for everyone else to guess.
Instead of shouting out answers, each player has a dry erase board with 6 lines. They only write down a single word for each thing the person acts out.
So instead of getting closer and closer to the right words by elimination, players just make their best guess and move on.
After the timer runs out, the actor reads the words they were acting out and the other players score their answers.
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