Have you ever wondered what it would have been like building the amazing wonders of the world? What if you lived in those ancient civilizations? Do you imagine slaving away at their construction or commanding those that did?
What if you could play a game that took you back in time, put you in that setting, and let you build those wonders and civilizations in less than 45 minutes?
7 Wonders set out to do just that.
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It’s that time of year again – time for the annual Dice Tower Awards!
Well, actually it’s time for the game nominations to be announced.
This week, The Dice Tower Network announced the nominations for the Dice Tower Gaming Awards for 2011. A committee made up of over 40 prominent board game podcasters and bloggers has come up with the lists of the best games released in the year 2011.
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I love amusement parks and carnivals!
I love the feeling of zooming all over on roller coasters and other contraptions. I also have many fond memories of lazy summer days with my cousins at state fairs with cool rides.
And on those fun summer days I’d imagine what it would be like to work at an amusement park. I’d dream of how cool it would be around all those rides every day and ride as much as I wanted to.
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There are a lot of party games that have a moderator asking questions or making statements. Chances are you’ve played a number of them.
But have you ever played any that have people slapping the table for the answer?
In Trigger, players get that chance.
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Since we started doing video reviews of family board games (just over 2 years), we’ve posted 110 board game and card game reviews and over 100 articles related to family time and board games. And as of today (2/29/12), our videos have been viewed more than 320,000 times!
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we can’t claim that our game closet has always been organized either. In fact, we didn’t start out with a board game closet even on the list. Our current board game closet was actually built to be a storage closet. And we planned for a cabinet in the family room where we’d place our games so we could easily pull them out to play. But then the family board game bug struck and before you know it, we got carried away.
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This month The Dice Tower podcast released 2 episodes focused on the Best Board Games of 2011. The great thing about this source for a “best of” listing is that contributors from around the world weigh in on what they believe the best games of 2011 were.
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What defines a board game or card game?
In our view, the whole definition of a board game or card game revolves around it being something physical that you can touch, feel, and move around. Playing board games is all about the social interaction of sitting around, face-to-face and moving stuff around on the table or from hand to hand.
Our family had a great time playing lots of new board games and card games in 2011!
We also had a great time playing games that we’ve had for years.
In fact, it’s very relaxing to play a board game that we’re familiar with rather than always learning rules to new games
With so many great new family board games coming out every year, it’s hard not to put a few of them on our Christmas wishlist.
The games we found this year under the Christmas tree this year were fantastic.
Take a look at what they were.