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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Heading into the Christmas holidays, everyone seems to get a little bit nostalgic.
We watch old Christmas movies. We think about the fun of Christmas in our childhood. We reminisce about years gone by with family members. And we often think back to “simpler” times.
Well, for some reason, playing Bridget, by ET Games, is a lot like that.
Perhaps it’s the wooden blocks. Or perhaps it’s the simple rules.
Either way, playing Bridget feels like hearkening back to simpler times. And I love that respite.
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Do your kids love watching Oddbods?
Those wacky cartoon characters can be seen on 25 networks in 105 countries as well as YouTube and other on-demand services. There are over 2 million subscribers to their YouTube channel and have received over a billion views in one year!
Well, what if your kids could play a board game with Oddbods?
Pretty soon they’ll be able to because Oddbods GO-KARDS is going to become a reality!
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In our home, it’s very rare that one game gets played every day for weeks on end. But that’s exactly what’s happened this past month since we started playing NMBR 9!
And it’s not pulled out to play on our game table downstairs, it’s front and center kitchen table play!
Which is also why it gets played multiple times after dinner (and sometimes after breakfast).
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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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It’s time again for our annual Board Game Gift Guide!
This time of year, most people looking for board games are doing so as gifts for family and friends. And that’s where we’re very happy to help!
This year’s Board Game Gift Guide includes 30 great game ideas!
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At SaltCon earlier this year I met game designer Tucker Smedes as he introduced some friends and I to The Pirate’s Flag.
We had a great time playing the game and enjoyed getting to know Tucker. He’s the owner of publishing company CardLords and they’ve just launched a Kickstarter game for a very family friendly game called Fallen Treasures.
I asked Tucker to tell me a bit more about this latest game. Since it’s very family-focused, I thought you’d be interested in hearing more about the game as well.
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It’s time to rounding our our week of 7 kids board game reviews!
The first is a game for kids learning the alphabet and the second is for kids who think they know it all.
Check out our reviews of Sequence Letters and Kids Know Best and then enter to win a copy for your family.
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Our first set of kids game reviews this week each had some elements of math to them.
Today we’re leaving the math behind and moving on to silly fun.
We’ll first head out to pasture and build some cows, then it’s on to silly faces and sounds.
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