It’s that awesome time of year again when we look for great fun ideas for gifts for family and friends.
With this crazy year, we know many families have already been grabbing a lot more board games to pass the time together throughout the year.
But it’s always nice to get some ideas for fresh games to play too.
This marks our 10th annual Board Game Gift Guide and we love sharing great gift ideas!
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Although it may feel like all of 2020 has been scary, the official day for scary stuff — Halloween — is next week!
We’ve posted in the past about great games to play on or around Halloween (like Gloom or Hit Z Road). And this year, we have a few more to add to the mix. Just the other day we reviewed Scooby-Doo! Escape from the Haunted Mansion.
And the game we’re reviewing today has a number of similarities to Scooby-Doo! (minus the Mystery Inc gang). It’s a cooperative game Kosmos released last year in their “Adventure Games” series called The Dungeon.
Are you ready to take on The Dungeon?
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Do you prefer your Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts toasted or frozen?
If you’re like people we know, your immediate response may be, “you can eat them frozen?” Well, apparently you can.
And in Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts Game, by Funko, you’ll be taking both toasted and frozen Pop-Tarts to score points and hopefully be the first to eat 30 points worth of the convenient snack.
Pop-Tarts is a simple and quick card game that up to 6 players can enjoy.
Just be warned that you’ll probably need some snacks nearby because you’re going to get hungry playing the game.
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You’ve arrived for your vacation, and it’s time to hit the luau! As you arrive, you see a table full of beautiful and vibrant flowers. Once you meet some other guests at the party, you and the other players will begin making your own leis.
That’s the setting for Lucky Luau – a new card game from CardLords.
It’s a simple and quick card game where players draw flowers, leaves, and kukui nuts to string along their leis. Whoever has the best scoring lei when the flowers run out is the winner.
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How good are you at math?
Will it make a difference if you’re calculating over and over with a timer ticking away?
In Math Rush by Genius Games, you and your fellow players race against time to cooperatively play your cards to accomplish various goals.
It may sound simple, but when the timer’s ticking away, you’ll quickly find there’s more to think about during the game than just addition and subtraction.
We know because the challenge of this simple-sounding game caught us by surprise.
How well will your family do?
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“There are few certainties in life. One of them is everybody’s relatives are crazy. You can let them make you nuts too, or you can learn to laugh about it. I prefer laughter every time.” — Jeff Foxworthy
And when you get a game with Jeff Foxworthy’s name emblazoned on it, you can expect laughter.
That’s definitely the case with Relative Insanity: See What I Mean?! by PlayMonster.
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
“Call me Ishmael.”
“All children, except one, grow up.”
Can you name which famous books these are opening lines for?
Or better yet, if you heard the title of a book, would you be able to come up with the opening line?
That’s the premise of a new game just launched on Kickstarter that sounds really intriguing to us – BOOKSMART.
Do you consider yourself BOOKSMART? Let’s find out…
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I’m a big Toy Story fan.
I was blown away with the animation in the first Toy Story movie in 1995 and have loved every one since. So when Disney and Pixar released Toy Story 4 last summer, it didn’t matter if my kids weren’t young anymore. I was going to see it!
And as soon as it hit Disney+ this year, I was ready to see it again.
But Toy Story 4 wasn’t the only cool Toy Story release last year. The OP also released a new Toy Story cooperative board game — Toy Story Obstacles and Adventures!
With as much as I like Toy Story. And as much as we enjoy cooperative board games. I had high hopes diving into the game.
And I won’t make you wait until later for the surprise — it delivers the fun!
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We’ve all been pretty disappointed since Pluto was declassified as a planet in our solar system.
Not that we had any actual travel plans of getting there some day. But when the International Astronomical Union decided to withdraw Pluto’s status as our solar system’s 9th planet in 2006, it caused quite the stir.
Well, all that’s behind us now. We must look to the future!
And your future may include becoming part of the crew to rediscover the 9th planet in The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine by Kosmos!
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Being stuck inside for long periods of time can really stink!
Since most of the world is now practicing this new hot term, “social distancing”, it can really get you down.
It’s definitely impacted our lives. And we’re sure it has yours too.
More time at home can mean a lot more family time to do things together. And that means things of every sort.
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