Clue – Still a winner!

Clue is still a fantastic family board game!
With hundreds (if not thousands) of new board games and card games being published every year, it’s refreshing to pull out a classic family board game and still have a fantastic time together. Since we review so many new games, it’s easy to get caught up in all the hype and allure of new board games.
But Clue still delivers what we’re after in family fun.

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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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Playing Hangman wrong

I never realized I had been playing Hangman wrong all these years.

Not playing it wrong in the sense that I didn’t follow the rules – guessing a letter, marking it off the list, and adding it to the word if correct or placing a body part on the board if incorrect. But playing it wrong in how to go about guessing the letters for the words.

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D-Day Commemoration – Memoir ’44 all night

Today marks the 68th anniversary of D-Day – the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.

For such an occasion, there are many different was people commemorate D-Day around the world. This year, we’re commemorating D-Day by playing Memoir ’44.

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