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Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Kraken board game expansion

Dead Men Tell No Tales: Kraken expansion review

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.

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, cooperative game, Minion Games, solo, strategy, theme

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Get with the flow in The River

Living in the Western United States, we’re very familiar with Pioneers. In fact, many of our ancestors were pioneers who helped settle the West.

So games about pioneers have a certain draw for me. The good news is that The River, by Days of Wonder, is a good family board game.

It’s relatively quick to play, keeps players engaged throughout, and has a good balance of luck and strategy.

Check it out!

February 5, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, Asmodee, strategy, worker placement

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Codenames enters the Wizarding World!

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!

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, Codenames, Czech Games, deduction, Harry Potter, teams, theme, USAopoly

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Falling shapes are fun in Drop It

We recently added a puppy to our family and are working on training her. One of the commands we’re trying to teach her is “Drop It”.

Inevitably, she’ll grab something she’s not supposed and we’ll ask her to “drop it”. It’s hit or miss so far, but we’re working on it.

One thing that’s not as tough as training a puppy is a new game by Kosmos called Drop It. Instead, this kind of dropping it is a lot more fun.

In Drop It, players take turns dropping various shapes for points.

That’s right — drop some shapes and score points!

January 22, 2019 Trent 2 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, abstract, dexterity, Kosmos, luck

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Make time for a Dinosaur Tea Party

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!

January 16, 2019January 17, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 3-players, 4 players, 5 players, deduction, Restoration Games, theme

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Skull King is totally King in our family

When a game takes over almost all our family game time, it must mean it’s time to review it.

And while we have a large stack of games on our “to review” shelf, some games just shoot right to the top of the stack.

Such is the case with Skull King!

January 10, 2019January 17, 2019 Trent 12 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, card game, Grandpa Beck's Games, pirate, strategy

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2018 – Year in Review

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.

January 4, 2019December 20, 2023 Trent 2 Comments board game, card game, family game, kids, luck, Star Wars, strategy, theme

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Merry Christmas!

Wherever you are in the world, we hope you enjoy time with your family as much as possible over the next week. It’s easy to take our relationships for granted.

The best thing we can wish for you on Christmas and over the next week is to enjoy all the moments you have with your family.

May you all have a very Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2018December 21, 2018 Trent 1 Comment Christmas

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Chroma Cube is a colorful puzzle game

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.

December 21, 2018 Trent 0 Comments Project Genius, puzzle, solo

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Fuji Flush is my most-played game of the year!

As the days tick down for 2018, I was glancing over my list of games played this year and noticed an injustice. I’ve neglected to post a review of my most-played game of the year!

It’s a shame really. But there’s still time to right that wrong.

It’s time for Fuji Flush to take its well-deserved place among the great family games we’ve reviewed!

(And letting you know about it in time to get it for your family for Christmas.)