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Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King board game review

One of the things we like best about Forgotten King is that it contains two play modes:

Classic Mode, in which someone controls the dungeon and its monsters while everyone else takes the roles of the heroes.
Arcade Mode, which allows for a fully co-operative game for up to five players.

Since it’s sometimes tiring to get beat by my hero boys, I really like the Arcade Mode where we’re all on the same team against the onslaught of monsters.

December 18, 2015December 27, 2015 Trent 0 Comments

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Star Wars: Imperial Assault board game review

It’s time to head into a galaxy far, far away!

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens hitting movie theaters this week, we couldn’t wait any longer to post our review of Star Wars: Imperial Assault.

You may have seen mentions of the game pop up on our site before now. We’ve included it in our 2015 Board Game Gift Guide as well as in Dad’s 20 Favorite Board Games list. And now it’s time to dive into it.

December 14, 2015December 20, 2023 Trent 4 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, solo, Star Wars, strategy, theme

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Dead Men Tell No Tales board game review

Get ready to board a burning ship with your pirate crew and grab all the loot from the remaining skeleton crew before it’s too late. Because if you’re unable to search the whole ship, if there are too many explosions, if deckhands overrun the ship, or you if run out of pirate crew before you grab all the loot, you’re done for.

Dead Men Tell No Tales is a new cooperative board game from Minion Games and we’ve had a blast playing it!

December 9, 2015December 14, 2015 Trent 1 Comment

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Timeline Challenge Board Game Review

In Timeline, players compete to get rid of their historical event cards by placing them correctly in the growing timeline. But with Timeline Challenge, Asmodee has stepped the game up a notch. This new board game brings a twist to the Timeline games by introducing a variety of historical date challenges.

I don’t know if we’ll ever play Timeline the normal way again.

December 6, 2015December 9, 2015 Trent 2 Comments

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Duplik party game review

We recently wrote about Duplik a couple of times since both Mom and Brooke listed Duplik as one of their Favorite Board Games. It’s a fun game we just got a couple months ago and it quickly jumped into a top games spot for both of them.

When you hear it’s a drawing game, don’t be alarmed. You don’t need to be any sort of an artist to win.

How well you draw may not matter, but how fast you draw will have an impact.

Check out Brooke’s video review to see how to play Duplik as well as hear why she likes it so much.

December 1, 2015November 2, 2016 Trent 0 Comments

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20 Favorite Board Games – Dad

Now that everyone else in our family has shared their Favorite Board Games, it’s time for me, Dad, to share my favorites.

While everyone else in the family hasn’t updated their list since 2012, I consider my list a bit more frequently.

Last year (Fall of 2014), I posted my Top 100 Best Board Games. However, I didn’t consult that list, nor my 2012 Top 14 Best Board Games, before creating my current Favorites list below. I wanted to think through my favorites completely fresh.

November 26, 2015December 20, 2023 Trent 1 Comment Star Wars, top 10

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Board Game Gift Guide 2015!

Once again it’s time for our annual Board Game Gift Guide!

The time of year where we share a bunch of ideas for fun games you can get your family and friends.

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just around the corner, now is a great time to find some great games to enjoy.

And that’s where our Board Game Gift Guide can help!

November 21, 2015December 20, 2023 Trent 2 Comments gift guide, Star Wars, top 10

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7 Favorite Board Games – Trevor

As the oldest child in our family, Trevor was exposed to board games early and often. Once he started showing

November 17, 2015December 10, 2015 Trent 0 Comments

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Can You Name These 25 Games? #2

A couple months ago, we created a board game photo quiz that people all around the world loved.
We heard from a lot of readers about how much they enjoyed the quiz and their hope that we’d do it again.

So here it is!

It’s time for another “Can You Name These 25 Games?” photo quiz!

November 13, 2015September 9, 2017 Trent 0 Comments