Do your kids love just running around the house? What if you could incorporate a game into all the running from room to room? Well if that’s the case, one of the new games from Out of the Box this year has you covered – Bug Out. Bug Out is a recently released game targeted [...]

Are your kids tired of playing the same board games and card games over and over? When someone suggests playing Monopoly, Life, Scrabble, or UNO yet again, does everyone turn and run out the door screaming or cower in a corner mumbling strange things? It’s not to say that you can’t have fun with your [...]

Do your kids love to tell stories – the crazier the better? We know our kids do. And we think it goes back to those first bedtime stories that we’d read to them. Bedtime routines are perfect for spending one-on-one time with kids. They cherish the dedicated time they have trading off with mom or [...]

If someone were to wish you a Crappy Birthday, I don’t think you’d be too pleased with them. But if they were to give you Crappy Birthday (the party game) as a gift, then you’d probably have them pull up a chair and play the game with you. One look at this new party game [...]

It’s that time of year again – time for the biggest board game and card game convention in the world: Internationalen Spieltage SPIEL! For all those English speakers, it’s mostly referred to as “Spiel Essen”, since that’s where it’s held – Essen Germany and it’s all about games (Spiel in German). So for anyone looking [...]

When you play a board game or card game, do you find comfort in the solid rules of the game? Or do you like coloring outside the lines and making up your own rules? If it’s the latter, then Fluxx may be just your kind of game. Just like the name implies, Fluxx is always [...]

Sometimes you just want to sit down and play a nice light, fun family card game. Well, next time you’re in that mood, you ought to grab the recently released card game by Gamewright – FlipOut. At the core, FlipOut is a set collection card game. You’re simply trying to collect sets of 4, 5, [...]

Haven’t seen a board game video review for a while? Don’t worry, we have a bunch on the horizon. But for some reason we’ve been running into software problems recently. It’s curious since it’s the same editing software we’ve used for our more than 80 board game and card game reviews that are posted on [...]

Are you ready to gather your family around the table for games Wednesday – September 28 for National Family Game Night? Of course, you may not even know about National Family Game Night. It’s only the third year after all. And it’s promoted by a large American game company – Hasbro. But even still, it [...]

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 [...]