November and December are perhaps the busiest months for board game and card game purchases. When it’s time to buy gifts, so many families turn to board games.
Why? Because they’re a ton of fun to play with family. There’s a lot of bonding that can happen around a game table. And the holidays bring a lot of family together. Good memories and good times.
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The other day I was looking at what the recent top selling board games are – to see what consumers
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As we’ve written about in the past, we love Thanksgiving. We love taking time to pause and think of all the things we’re grateful for.
Last year we followed a tip we’d heard about and got a big roll of cash register tape to write down things we’re thankful for. We started writing on it while on our drive to grandma’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. But the half hour drive wasn’t nearly enough time to get it all down.
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What do teenage boys think are the best board games and best card games around?
Well, you’re about to find out because today we’re taking a peak at what Jaden considers to be the best board games, card games, and party games.
Jaden is our 14 (soon to be 15) year old son and with our board game shelves full of over 300 games, he’s played hundreds of games. He’s also at the stage where he’s pretty particular about what he spends his time doing.
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We get asked a simple question a lot this time of year. “What are the best family board games?” and “What board games should we get for our family?”
This year we’re trying something different. We thought it would be a good idea to share the perspective of each member of our family on what games they’d put at the top of such a list. So rather than just getting dad’s summary and having it go on and on with so many great board games and card games. We’re giving you the perspective of everyone else (then maybe dad will sneak something in in the end).
And we’ll start right at the top with Mom.
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Out of the Box publishing attempted to set a World Record last night of the most people playing a word game – Word on the Street.
It was conducted during half-time of the BYU / Idaho football game played in Provo, UT. And we only say “attempted” because we don’t yet know if it set a record or not. But we think it was a great way to try to set a record.
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It’s time to explore and colonize a distant alien planet. Of course, others are trying to do the same.
As with any exploration, there’s an element of luck. And Alien Frontiers is no different. In fact, Alien Frontiers is largely based on the luck of your dice rolls.
Roll and place your dice to gain the best advantages in securing resources and colonizing the most advantageous territories of this alien planet. You’ll have the make the most of every turn in order to beat out your fellow colonizers. After all, they’re trying to build the most colonies as fast as they can as well.
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Earlier this year (2012) AEG did a reset of sorts and released a new iteration of Thunderstone called Thunderstone Advance. With the first set being Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin. (We say “first” because you know immediately they’ll be more to come.)
Don’t let the name fool you though. This isn’t an elevated or more difficult version of the game. Instead what AEG did was take all the fantastic things that they’d learned from the previous versions and made a streamlined game that incorporates many great refinements into one system.
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We’ll tell you right up front that FURT is a wacky party game.
Of course, that shouldn’t be any surprise if you’re familiar with Wiggity Bang Games.
Wiggity Bang games are not deep thinking, strategic board games. Instead, Wiggity Bang games are meant to bring out the party in everyone. They’re the original publishers of Quelf and Quelf Jr. which were a big hit and subsequently acquired by a larger game company.
And with FURT, they’re at it again.
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Heading in to the holiday season, we’re starting to think about great family board games on our wish list that
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