We love to play games with our kids. There’s just so much to like about it. It gives us a great time to be face-to-face interacting and bonding. It also gives us a great glimpse into their budding personalities. But can playing with our kids also help them get better grades in school? According to [...]

Two months ago we wrote about some of the fantastic family board games that have been made available in digital form for mobile devices like iPads, iPhones, and Androids. And one of our favorites to make the jump is Ticket to Ride by Days of Wonder. One of the issues we talked about at the [...]

Since we started doing video reviews of family board games (just over 2 years), we’ve posted 110 board game and card game reviews and over 100 articles related to family time and board games. And as of today (2/29/12), our videos have been viewed more than 320,000 times! That’s hard for us to believe because [...]

As you can tell from our last post, SaltCON was a great time for gaming in Salt Lake City. But another great part of the weekend for me was meeting Matthew Fisk who does a video podcast called The Victory Point. The Victory Point is a video podcast that teaches how to play board games [...]

This past weekend I spent a lot of time playing games. And it was a lot of fun! It was the annual board game convention in our area – SaltCON – and I was once again asked to be a judge in the new family game design competition. And I just have to say that [...]

Have you had the enjoyable experience of being whooped by your kids in a board game? Well, this week I had that great experience again. After having been on a business trip for most of this week, I returned home nice an tired. My flight home lasted most of the day and when I finally [...]

I like To Do lists. In fact, I think I like them too much. I’ve got To Do lists all over the place – in notebooks, on handouts, on sticky notes, on the computer, and on my mobile device. Of course, all of them have their purpose: When I’m in a meeting a work, I [...]

Do you have “fun money” on hand for emergencies? We’re not talking about rush to the hospital kind of emergencies. We’re talking about when you need to infuse your life with a dose of fun. It’s so easy to get caught up in all the things we need to get done or places we need [...]

If you’ve got young kids in your family, check out Crazy Dave’s Kid Show. It’s a radio podcast covering a wide variety of fun topics that kids will love – like Muppets, Pirates, Space, Sports, Harry Potter, Superheroes, and Llamas! And this last week, our family was on the show! Crazy Dave and Goofy Gilbert [...]

“Going Cardboard: A Board Game Documentary” is kicking off 2012 with a series of screenings across the globe. The first screening was January 4th in Germany and then moved to screenings in the US starting on January 12th and continuing through February and March. And the current screening list also includes a stop in July [...]