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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you were traveling through a city far from home, would you consider stopping to play games with strangers in their home? I’m not talking about playing online games or video games through internet connections. And I’m not talking about going to a board game convention and playing with others at the convention that you’ve [...]

Do you have a bin of white elephant gifts in your home? We do. It’s the basket we turn to when the holidays roll around and we’re invited to a white elephant gift exchange. Some years, we end up a few different parties with these types of gift exchanges. So many years ago we created [...]

We’ve mentioned before how a number of great board games have moved to incarnations on digital platforms like the iPad and such. But did you know the boxes are going high-tech as well? Out of the Box Publishing just announced this week that their game box will teach you how to play their games. Three [...]

Once again the votes have been cast and the results are in. The Dice Tower Awards for the best board games and best card games of the year for 2010 have just been announced. These are the best game of the year awards that are nominated and voted on by leading reviewers in the board [...]