Thunderstone Advance card game
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Even more adventure – Thunderstone Advance

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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FURT party game
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It’s party time – R U ready for FURT?

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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Fandooble dice game box
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Fandooble – Steal the Gold

We don’t know exactly what “Fandooble” means. But it must have something to do with knights, wizards, dragons, and gold because Fandooble is a family board game (or dice game rather) that’s all about stealing gold from dragons (and other players).

Fandooble isn’t a long adventure board game like Defenders of the Realm or Fortune and Glory. Rather it’s a simple, light game of rolling unique wooden dice that’s enjoyable in its own right.

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Boys swimming after board games
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Board game blowout weekend

Our nephew (and cousin) returned last week from his 2 year church mission and we got to spend the extended weekend with their family catching up on many things as well as playing lots of board games!

Knowing that we’d be spending a long weekend at their home, and that Jake loves playing board games, we had the tough choice of which games we should first introduce him to upon his return. We wanted to take games he’d already be familiar with, but we also wanted to play games that we’ve added to our game shelves over the last 2 years that we thought he’d love.

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Stone Age board game
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100th Board Game Played this year!

I just played my 100th board game this year!

And we picked a great family board game to play for the 100th different game played – Stone Age!

In January I wrote about the number of board games we played in 2011 and which games we/I played the most. By keeping track of the board games I play, it’s easy to look back and see which games I’ve played the most and how many different games I’ve played.

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