Shrimp Cocktail – Quick spotting card game
Shrimp Cocktail is a card game that’s great for kids and helps develop their visual recognition skills as they race to be the first to spot matches among the shrimp on the cards.
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Kid Games
We just Can’t Stop! rolling the dice
If you like to press your luck and like to roll dice, then you’re going to love Can’t Stop. Can’t Stop is a dice game that’s all about simple fun. Can’t Stop is all about taking chances and seeing how far you can get each time without busting.
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Monopoly Millionaire Board Game Review and Giveaway!
With all the new board games available, you may have given up on Monopoly a long time ago like many others. However, Hasbro has changed things up and delivers a digestible Monopoly game that’s very familiar yet has enough tweaks to keep it fun.
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More Award Winners – Best Board Games of 2011
On the heels of the Spiel des Jahres (Best Family Board Game of the Year) announcement, The Dice Tower award winners were also announced recently – celebrating even more of the best board games and card games for 2011!
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Board games played, a Mid-Year Report
One of the indicators of our favorite board games and card games is how many times we play a game. However, that’s not always the best indicator because the length of time it takes to play a game is also a big factor in how often we play it. But it’s a good starting point.
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Toc Toc Woodman – chop away
Do your kids like games where they get to destroy things?
Or rather, where they get to wreck havoc with the playing pieces?
In Toc Toc Woodman, players get to play lumberjack and use an axe to chop down a tree. And they can be as wild as they want with the chopping. Of course, if they’re too wild, there going to lose the game. Because in Toc Toc Woodman the winner will be the person that chops with more precision than vigor.
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Befuzzled Be Fun
Our family had a great time the other night playing Befuzzled. And though we’ve had this card game for a while, we haven’t yet posted a review of it. Well, it’s time to change that because Befuzzled is a fun family game.
Even though I just mentioned Befuzzled as a card game, it feels more like a party game. Mostly because everyone’s acting out at the same time and there’s a lot of laughing.
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Pizza Theory – a tasty game treat
We love making homemade pizza.
Decorating a pizza with your own toppings to satisfy your own whim is simply fun and tasty. And if we everyone creates their own personal-sized pizza then there isn’t any fighting over any of the toppings.
Best Board Games of 2011 – Nominees announced!
It’s that time of year again – time for the annual Dice Tower Awards!
Well, actually it’s time for the game nominations to be announced.
This week, The Dice Tower Network announced the nominations for the Dice Tower Gaming Awards for 2011. A committee made up of over 40 prominent board game podcasters and bloggers has come up with the lists of the best games released in the year 2011.
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Yinsh – a 2-player strategy game with a flip
Yinsh is a 2-player abstract strategy board game that I’ve had on my “to play” list for a very long time. It’s part of a series of 6 abstract strategy games called Project GIPF that all have unique play mechanics that all look great to try. And of all the games in the series, Yinsh has held the most interest to me for a few years.
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