The best board games, card games, dice games, family games, and party games of 2015 have now been awarded!
Just a couple days ago, on July 9, The Dice Tower announced the winners of the Dice Tower Awards — the annual crowing of the best board games published.
With thousands of new games published each year, there’s always so many great games to choose from.
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We’ve never participated in a Chinese Lantern Festival. But we can imagine how cool it would be to see.
After all, we’ve seen the hope lit lanterns can bring in Disney’s movie Tangled. And that led to “happily ever after”, right?
However, our score of participating in a lantern festival is still zero.
Playing Lanterns: The Harvest Festival by Foxtrot Games and Renegade Game Studios is our next attempt at being close to the real thing.
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It’s fun to sit around the table with everyone for family together time. But it’s also fun to sit down one-on-one with a child and go head-to-head in a fun mental challenge.
And today we’re reviewing such a game by FoxMind: Six
Six is a short 2-player board game that’s simple and enjoyable to play again and again.
And Caleb gives it his highest rating!
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Since it’s a cooperative experience, Escape The Room can definitely be enjoyed by everyone in the family.
The game box says ages 10+ and the challenges will take some thinking. But that shouldn’t stop you from having younger kids join in the fun.
In our case, my wife and I made sure not to take charge in solving the puzzles, but rather let our kids read the clues, try to solve the challenges, and open all the packets.
But what we liked the most is that even though we let them lead out, we weren’t sitting idly by. It truly felt like a joint deductive effort.
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Are you thinking of a Chocolate Milkshake?
Or a Cherry Snow Cone?
Or a Lime Popsicle?
In Brain Freeze players are trying to guess which treat their opponent is thinking of before that opponent can guess what they’re thinking of.
It’s a great 2-player deduction game that everyone in the family can enjoy.
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What are the best board games and card games from 2015?
We’ll soon find out because the annual Dice Tower Awards are upon us.
The annual awards recognize the best board games published every year and the 2015 nominees were just announced.
Over 4,000 new board games, card games, dice games, and party game are published each year. So finding the best board games and card games takes a bit of time.
Lucky for you, board game reviewers from around the world take part in The Dice Tower Awards.
Check out this year’s nominees!
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If you’re looking for a light and quick game your whole family can enjoy playing together, we’ve got a game for you — Crossing.
While the name of the game may sound very generic and non-descript, the game play is rather fun.
Actually, even the objective of the game is a very common goal for games: Collect sets of valuable gems to get the most points by the end of the game.
However, the fun of the game is the way in which players go about snagging the gems — or “life stones” as they’re called in this board game.
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Are you kids familiar with the story of The Little Prince?
If so, here’s a great game for you to check out — The Little Prince: Rising to the Stars.
The modular game board allows players to reconfigure the route among the clouds differently each game. And kids will enjoy moving their plane from cloud to cloud on their way to The Little Prince’s planet.
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How do you carry your board games when you’re heading out somewhere else to play?
We’ve used a variety of options when going away for a family vacation, extended family gathering, or off to game night — such as plastic totes, cloth bags, and standard duffle bags.
Some of those options severely limit the amount of games we can take and don’t protect the games very well.
But recently we found out about The Game Canopy, by Level 3B, and now the issue is solved!
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After a couple great days at SaltCon, I was looking forward to one final day of fun.
So with just a few hours of sleep, I was happily diving back into action before the main gaming hall opened.
Knowing it was the final day of SaltCon, I had to make the most of the day playing games at the top of my want-to-play list. And there were still many people I was hoping to meeting up with before the end of the con. It would be a busy and fun day!
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