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Fantastic Beasts Perilous Pursuit board game

Fantastic Beasts: Perilous Pursuit – cooperative family fun

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.

November 21, 2018November 27, 2018 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, cooperative, dice, luck, movie, theme, USAopoly

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Board Game Gift Guide 2018!

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!

November 11, 2018November 19, 2023 Trent 3 Comments 2-player, board game, deduction, family game, gifts, holiday, kids, party, top 10

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Letters, Trivia, and a Game Giveaway!

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.

October 30, 2018October 29, 2018 Trent 14 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, kids, luck, Pressman Toy

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Bevy of Kids Games Reviews and Game Giveaway!

Over the coming 7 days we’re reviewing 7 new board games and card games your kids may love.

Since kids games have very simple rules, each review will be a shorter than our typical reviews. As such, we’re also going to review a couple games at a time. And we’ll end with a game giveaway!

We’re starting off with 3 games that can help your kids with math:
* Monster Crunch: The Breakfast Battle Game
* This Game Goes to Eleven
* Make 7

October 24, 2018October 25, 2018 Trent 5 Comments 2 players, 3-players, 4 players, 5 players, 6 players, Big G Creative, card, family, Gamewright, kids, Pressman Toys, strategy

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Get painting with Bob Ross: Art of Chill

Are you ready to paint some Happy Little Trees or Almighty Mountains?
That’s exactly what you get to do in Bob Ross: Art of Chill.

I’m pretty skeptical of board games based on pop culture references. Many times these publishers seem to rely on just the popular theme for success rather than quality game play. So when I heard about a board game based on Bob Ross, a PBS art show and personality from the 80’s, I was very skeptical.

It turns out that Bob Ross: The Art of Chill is my biggest surprise game this year!

I’ve had a great time playing it!

October 10, 2018 Trent 2 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, Big G Creative, card, set collection, theme

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It’s hard being Robinson Crusoe

Life sure isn’t easy on a deserted island. In fact, most of the time it can downright stink. But that isn’t to say there aren’t pleasures to be found.

Such is the case with the Robinson Crusoe 2nd edition board game from Portal Games.

It’s one of the hardest cooperative board games we’ve played. Yet it’s filled with so much adventuring theme and tough decisions, that we keep thinking about it long after we’ve played.

September 30, 2018February 1, 2019 Trent 6 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, adventure, cooperative game, luck, Portal games, risk, solo, theme

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You may not survive Hellapagos

In Hellapagos, you and your fellow castaways are shipwrecked on an island with an approaching hurricane in the distance. You must work together to have any hope of getting off the island before the hurricane strikes.

Or at least some of you may make it off the island alive…

Hellapagos is a semi-cooperative board game for up to 12 players that’s super challenging to all win together. But you have to try. Because if you don’t work together, no one will survive. By working together, there’s at least a chance you can make it.

Do you have what it takes to be one of the survivors?

September 23, 2018September 23, 2018 Trent 7 Comments 10-player, 11-player, 12-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, 7-player, 8-player, 9-player, cooperative game, Gigamic, luck, player elimination, random

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Azul board game review

It’s hard for an abstract strategy game to make its way in this world. The masses clamor for board games dripping with theme. Like with movies and books, players are drawn to games that help them escape into a new realm.

So when an abstract board game comes along and wins the coveted Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award, people take notice.

Such is the case with Azul by Plan B Games and Next Move Games.

August 30, 2018February 1, 2019 Trent 5 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, abstract, Next Move Games, Plan B Games, strategy, tile-laying

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Scarabya board game review

You’re an experienced archeologist, renowned from all the golden Scarab relics you’ve found all around the world.

Well, fame won’t last long without others trying to jump in on your claim as the best. It’s time to settle this challenge once and for all in Scarabya!

August 9, 2018August 13, 2018 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, Blue Orange Games, family, solo, tile-laying

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Sail into the Blue Lagoon for family fun

One look at the box art for Blue Lagoon and we know exactly what you’ll think.

That’s because we, and everyone else we’ve shown the game to has said the exact same thing, “Is this Moana, the Board Game?”

Nope, it’s not.

It’s Blue Lagoon – another Gen Con 2018 release from Blue Orange Games!

And while there’s no “Maui, shapeshifter, Demigod of the wind and sea, hero of men” to be found anywhere in Blue Lagoon, you will find lots of island settlers and colorful huts to dot the board.

August 4, 2018August 9, 2018 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, Blue Orange Games, family, luck, strategy, theme