While I was in Seattle last week, playing Games with Hayden wasn’t the only time I spent around board games. It just so happened that there was a great game store within a block of my hotel in Redmond – Uncles Games.
I first became familiar with Uncles Games when we developed our family board game site in 2009. Around that time we were checking out numerous online stores that sold board games and card games and we can across Unclesgames.com.
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If you were traveling through a city far from home, would you consider stopping to play games with strangers in their home?
I’m not talking about playing online games or video games through internet connections. And I’m not talking about going to a board game convention and playing with others at the convention that you’ve just met. I’m talking about pulling up a chair and playing face-to-face board games in someone’s home that you’ve never been to.
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The Killer Bunnies . . . Killer as in, killer cool! That’s what they were known by. That’s what they answered to. That’s who they were.
Well, that’s who they thought they were anyway. To the rest of the bunnies, they were just punks with deadly toys and terrible misfortune.
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Are you ready to liven up your board games even more?
Then check out getting custom board game pieces for everyone in your family.
We recently got some custom made player pieces from Meeple Mania so now each of us have our own character piece that we can use with many of our board games.
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Do you have a bin of white elephant gifts in your home?
We do. It’s the basket we turn to when the holidays roll around and we’re invited to a white elephant gift exchange. Some years, we end up a few different parties with these types of gift exchanges. So many years ago we created our “White Elephant Box” and whenever we get something that just seems odd, we toss it in the box. That way, we have an easy resource to turn to when it’s time for a party.
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What comes to mind when you think of Boy Scouts? Most likely you’ll think of outdoor skills such as camping
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Dear Diary,
Today… Well today was rather depressing. But let me start at the beginning…
It was all a vacation. The most elegant island in the world! That’s what it said on all of the brochures, that’s what all my friends back at home (safe, I must add) said, and most importantly, that’s what our late captain said. So I thought, What the heck?! And foolishly, I signed the contract to get away for three weeks (which was essentially signing away my life, I later realized) . . . (A little too late I might add).
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How frantic do things get at your house right around dinner time? For some reason everything just seems to percolate
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We’ve mentioned before how a number of great board games have moved to incarnations on digital platforms like the iPad
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It was dark. The sun had just gone down behind the purple mountains in Bangkok. I knew I was running
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