Small World Tales and Legends is a great expansion for the Small World board game!
With 54 Event cards, adding in Tales and Legends is a great way to heighten the fun.
Every round there’s some change to the game that you’ll have to adjust to if you want to come out victorious.
Love it!
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Christmas is a great time for getting/giving family board games. We had a number of games under our Christmas tree again this year. And the first game opened and played this year went to Curses – a party game with silliness included.
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We’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas!
We hope you enjoy time with your family as much as possible over the next week. We know at times it’s easy to take our relationships for granted. But it’s times like this that prompt us to reflect on our blessings.
And we consider our family to be one of our greatest blessings.
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Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation is one of our favorite board games! And the long-awaited reprint of the game is now available! We’re so excited – not because we’ll get another copy, but because everyone we’ve touted it to for so long can get a copy!
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
So too is the value of a board game.
Having played a ton of different board games and card games, we can attest to the fact that not all board games are created equal. Some games are so compelling they’re hard to stop playing. Other games can’t end soon enough.
The value of a board game or card game can’t be judged on price or quality of the components alone.
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Where do your board games spend most of their time?
Your answer is probably: “on a game shelf” or “in the closet”.
Most board games are found resting on game shelves and in closets. That’s where they go to sleep off the exertion from being played.
And that’s okay.
It’s best to keep most games stored away in their boxes. As much as they love to be played, at the end of the day, they like to keep their own little family (components) safely tucked in.
But that doesn’t mean EVERY game needs to be put away at the end of play.
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After just 1 play, Telestrations became mom’s favorite party game.
Do we really need to say anything else?
We’ve mentioned Telestrations in some of our recent posts because it’s such a great game for family get-togethers (Top 11 Games for Family Gatherings, Thanksgiving = Great Board Games). But now it’s time to give it a full party game review.
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This week we saw a great list on Gaming Trends that suggests replacement games for many traditional board games. We love their list. But we also have our own recommendations.
Here are 10 great board games to replace your worn out old games and inject more fun into your family game time.
Read moreAs we mentioned in our last post, earlier this year we heard about a fantastic website: The Art of Manliness.
As the name implies, it’s a website dedicated to men. However, the thing that impressed us the most when we heard about it, is the dedication the site has to true manhood – honorable manhood.
The creators of the site didn’t like the way most magazines and sites focused on men delved too much into salacious material. They realized that the world needs more focus on things that build good character.
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With thousands of new board games, card games, dice games, and party games being released each year, they’re also much more than just kids toys. They’re played by young and old alike across a myriad of cultures.
Board games also teach great life lessons.
Even with such a huge variety of tabletop games and play experiences, there are 5 essential lessons that board games can teach you about being a man.
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