In StoryLine: Fairy Tales, players collectively create a fairy tale as they contribute cards to the progressive story.
The players who contribute the most creative responses along the way will claim point tokens which will ultimately determine the winner.
But in a game like this, points feel ancillary, because the joy is in the journey.
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So far this year, I’ve already played 142 different games!
As I looked over my list this past weekend, I thought about my favorite gaming moments for the year so far.
In some cases, I thought of particular games I’ve had a blast playing. And in other cases, it’s more about the experience overall.
Here are my Top 11 Games and Experiences of 2016 so far.
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At Gen Con 2016 last month, Ice Cool was one of the hot games that sold out rather quickly.
I hadn’t heard about it at all before Gen Con. And it’s probably not surprising because Ice Cool is published by Brain Games out of Latvia.
Coming home with 13 games from Gen Con, Ice Cool was one that I was super excited to play because I thought it might go over well with the family.
And boy, was I right!
Ice Cool is a blast to play!
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If we were to ask readers to name the most popular board games in the world, we imagine the game
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On Wednesday, Jaden headed out on his 2-year mission to serve the people in Singapore and Malaysia!
He’s been looking forward to this day for so long and it’s so exciting that it’s finally here.
He was all smiles as we dropped him off at the Missionary Training Center where he would spend the next couple months learning Mandarin Chinese before making his way to Singapore.
In fact, everyone was all smiles.
There’s not doubt it’s an emotional moment.
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Grab yourself a tasty chocolate bar, sit back, and enjoy it while you read our review of Chocoly by FoxMind.
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Earlier this week I shared an overview of my first Gen Con experience.
I had a great time being immersed in the spectacle of so much gaming goodness. But without a doubt, the best part for me was meeting with people I’ve only interacted with via email and online for so many years.
And many of these were board game publishers with fun games that we’ve done reviews of.
If you’d like to jump to a video interview of one of these fabulous game publishers, simply click on their name in the list below.
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Last week marked a big first for me — my first Gen Con experience! I’ve wanted to go to Gen
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It’s time for your family to venture off on an exploration through dense jungles in search of long-lost treasure.
Join the expedition in Karuba!
Karuba is a fun tile-laying game that’s been a hit in our family. And we think it will be a hit with yours as well.
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We’ve always enjoyed reading books in our family.
Jaden and Caleb in particular absolutely devour books. I don’t know where they got their ability to speed-read, but they read circles around me.
So when we got a recently released game from Gamewright that involves books, we were anxious to play it.
And now that we’ve played it, we can confirm that Bring Your Own Book is a fantastic game for families.
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