You know you’ve found a hit game when your family plays it over and over and over.
Such is the case with That’s Pretty Clever dice game by Schmidt Spiele and Stronghold Games.
Since we first played it a couple weeks ago, we’ve played it at least once almost every day. And since it’s hard to just play once, we’ve played it back to back many of those days.
So what’s the big draw to this simple dice game?
Read on and we’ll tell you.
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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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When you set out to build a City, you think big. When you set out to build a Town, you think a little bit less big.
But we imagine you still wouldn’t think about building a town as small as you do in Tiny Towns.
Tiny Towns is a new board game published by AEG that has players constructing their own towns on little 4×4 grids. The variety of buildings to place in those towns is huge. But the area is small.
You’ll have to make the most of your limited space to cram in as many valuable buildings as you can.
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When you think of “layers” what do you think of?
If you’re a Shrek fan like us, you’ll immediately think of onions and ogres.
Of course, you might also think of cake, lasagna, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Adobe Photoshop, and the Earth.
Well, it’s also now a game!
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You’ve vanquished the skeleton crew, you’ve grabbed the loot, you’ve kept the deckhands in check, and you’re about to escape the burning ship to enjoy your spoils when it happens.
The ship starts to shake. The floorboards start to rumble. Then all of a sudden, tentacles start bursting through the boards all over the ship.
You and your fellow pirates stumble away from them the best you can when you notice the Kraken surface just off the bow of the ship and block your exit!
How will you survive? Start loading the cannons and take it down!
You can in Dead Men Tells No Tales: The Kraken expansion.
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There are a handful of things I love to do with regularity each day. And among those things are daily Sudoku and KenKen puzzles.
I love taking a break to challenge my mental muscles in solving puzzles. While both of those puzzles involve numbers, I love taking on a variety of such challenges.
So when I discovered brainteaser puzzles from Project Genius, I was immediately intrigued. And Chroma Cube fits the bill very nicely.
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In our home, it’s very rare that one game gets played every day for weeks on end. But that’s exactly what’s happened this past month since we started playing NMBR 9!
And it’s not pulled out to play on our game table downstairs, it’s front and center kitchen table play!
Which is also why it gets played multiple times after dinner (and sometimes after breakfast).
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Life sure isn’t easy on a deserted island. In fact, most of the time it can downright stink. But that isn’t to say there aren’t pleasures to be found.
Such is the case with the Robinson Crusoe 2nd edition board game from Portal Games.
It’s one of the hardest cooperative board games we’ve played. Yet it’s filled with so much adventuring theme and tough decisions, that we keep thinking about it long after we’ve played.
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