Grab your fishing pole and hit the islands in this fun family board game by Z-Man Games and Asmodee!
Of course, in Miaui, you’re not fishermen but instead you’re fisher-cats.
After all, isn’t it well known that cats love fish?
So why not have a game about cats catching fish?
There’s a fishing festival about to happen and the skilled Miauians are vying to bring in the most valuable fish from the lagoon.
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Recruit your crew, gather supplies, and set off to raid unsuspecting settlements for gold, iron, and livestock — because you’re Viking Raiders!
At least, you can pretend to be in Raiders of the North Sea.
There are various ways to gain points that impress the Chieftain. And if you earn the most points, you’ll come out victorious over the other Viking crews.
Do you have what it takes to become the most impressive Viking leader in the North Sea?
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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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We’re big Codenames fans.
And we’re also big Harry Potter fans.
So mixing Codenames and Harry Potter should be a slam-dunk of fun, right?
We’re ready to share our thoughts on this latest Codenames iteration — Codenames: Harry Potter!
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When was the last time you had tea with dinosaurs?
If your answer is “never”, then it’s time to change that!
Dinosaur Tea Party is a fantastic family game of deduction that everyone can enjoy playing.
It’s also another game that quickly jumped into one of our most-played games of 2018!
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Happy New Year!
We’re not sure if 2018 flew by for you, but it sure seemed like it did for us. We passed a number of milestones as a family this year. And we ended 2018 with a bang by taking a family vacation over Christmas and into the New Year. It’s so great to all be together again.
But before we dive into the new year, let’s take a look back at 2018.
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Shadows: Amsterdam is a real-time, simultaneous deduction game played in teams. It’s full of colorful artwork, obscure clues, frantic racing, and lots of fun.
It also reminds us a lot of the movie Zootopia!
Just like in the movie, you’re trying to solve a crime by following clues all over colorful locations. The great thing is that you’re not alone. Work together with your teammates to make your way around the city to solve the case!
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You’ve rescued treasure from a sinking island and recovered a legendary flying machine from the desert — now it’s time to power up a rocket from a platform in the clouds 7,000 feet above the ground.
In order to do so, you’ll have to work together as a team to wire together capacitors and lightning rods in a true electrical circuit with the launch pad!
This third installment in the “Forbidden” series of cooperative games is more than just playing with tiles on a table. Players now must create an actual electrical circuit in order to win.
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The hot new movie out this week is Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. That’s why we’re excited about reviewing a hot new family board game this week — Fantastic Beasts: Perilous Pursuit!
In Fantastic Beasts: Perilous Pursuit players work together to capture 5 beasts by rolling special dice. However, if 2 beasts get away or one player loses all their Health, they all lose.
We’re big fans of cooperative games for families and we’ve really enjoyed playing Fantastic Beasts: Perilous Pursuit.
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Are you ready to paint some Happy Little Trees or Almighty Mountains?
That’s exactly what you get to do in Bob Ross: Art of Chill.
I’m pretty skeptical of board games based on pop culture references. Many times these publishers seem to rely on just the popular theme for success rather than quality game play. So when I heard about a board game based on Bob Ross, a PBS art show and personality from the 80’s, I was very skeptical.
It turns out that Bob Ross: The Art of Chill is my biggest surprise game this year!
I’ve had a great time playing it!
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