“I would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling kids!”
If you recognize that statement, then you must be familiar with Scooby-Doo!
The question is, does your family have what it takes to solve the mystery at Lord Fairmont’s haunted mansion?
Of course, you’ll be channeling the skills and hijinks of Mystery Inc. with Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and of course Scooby-Doo!
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Are you ready to defeat Lord Voldemort and thwart his rise to power?
Wait…
Have we talked about this already, because it feels very familiar?
Well, we’ve got yet another new Harry Potter-themed game for you to check out from The Op — Harry Potter: Death Eaters Rising!
Over the 11 years we’ve been reviewing family board games, we’ve reviewed a bunch of Harry Potter games. Yet, we still don’t get tired of playing them.
That’s because each game has a totally different feel to it.
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Do you remember the very first Wolfenstein video game in 1981? I do.
Castle Wolfenstein was one of the first games I played on my Commodore 64. It was a stealth-based game where you’d try to avoid detection as long as possible. You had to work through the levels of the castle to find secret plans and get out alive.
Since that first release, 12 more Wolfenstein games have been released. And the fun of the original game has stuck with me.
So when I heard about the upcoming release of Wolfenstein the Board Game, I was totally on board with checking it out.
And thanks to the folks at Archon Studio, I got my chance!
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I’m a big Toy Story fan.
I was blown away with the animation in the first Toy Story movie in 1995 and have loved every one since. So when Disney and Pixar released Toy Story 4 last summer, it didn’t matter if my kids weren’t young anymore. I was going to see it!
And as soon as it hit Disney+ this year, I was ready to see it again.
But Toy Story 4 wasn’t the only cool Toy Story release last year. The OP also released a new Toy Story cooperative board game — Toy Story Obstacles and Adventures!
With as much as I like Toy Story. And as much as we enjoy cooperative board games. I had high hopes diving into the game.
And I won’t make you wait until later for the surprise — it delivers the fun!
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2019 marked a huge milestone for The Board Game Family. We celebrated 10 years of doing family board game reviews!
With our video reviews hitting 2 million views and our written reviews and articles being read by millions more, it’s been an amazing 10 years.
But today’s not about looking back on all 10 years (we’ve already done that). Instead, we’re just looking back at 2019.
As I’ve done at the start of each year, let’s take a quick look back at the games we’ve enjoyed the most from 2019.
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Wow – what a fantastic decade in board gaming!
Now that we’ve rolled into 2020, we want to pay homage to the stellar board games published over the past decade. It just so happens that we’ve also been reviewing family board games, card games, party games and more for just over 10 years!
In October 2019, we celebrated the 10 year mark for The Board Game Family!
Which means we’ve been front and center with the amazing new games that have hit family tables across the world this past decade.
So, here’s our list of great family games from 2010-2019.
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Over the years we’ve reviewed a bunch of escape room type games from multiple publishers (4 different publishers to be exact).
Well, today we’re reviewing another set of escape room games from another publisher!
The Deckscape series of escape room card games is published by dV Giochi in Italy.
The Deckscape games are cooperative, story-driven games where players work together to solve a mystery or get out of a tough situation. As the name implies, the game is a deck of cards that players work through.
We’ve recently played through 3 of the Deckscape games and are ready to tell you what we think.
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Are you looking for fun board games as gifts for family and friends?
Then you’ve come to the right place!
Because for the 9th year running, we’ve got fantastic suggestions for you!
This year’s Board Game Gift Guide includes 43 great game ideas in various categories: children, family, dice, party, cooperative, abstract, and more!
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If you had the chance to be a Breach Mage, would you take it?
Don’t have a clue what a Breach Mage is?
Neither did we before we dove into Aeon’s End Legacy!
If you’re one who likes to cut to the chase, you’ll be happy to know the boys and I have loved it!
If you’d like more detail, read on.
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Another super fun weekend of board gaming at SaltCon is in the books!
I look forward to SaltCon with high anticipation every year and it never disappoints.
And that’s exactly how I’m feeling again looking back on last weekend of fun board gaming with friends and strangers.
SaltCon is our local board game convention that rolls around the first weekend of March. And like the previous years, it continues to hit record numbers.
For SaltCon 2019, more than 1,900 people came for the fun!
Here’s my quick run down on the 20+ games I played over the couple days I was there.
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