Carcassonne Inns & Cathedrals is a great first expansion for Carcassonne! It adds new land tiles, new ways to score, and pieces for a 6th player to join in.
It’s also an expansion that we include every time we play Carcassonne.
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Board game expansions are becoming a much more common occurrence with modern board games. Look back just a decade and you won’t see many board game expansions. Sure Monopoly has spawned a ton of different versions, but they aren’t considered expansions. They’re just re-theming the same game and each game plays as a stand-alone.
Which board game expansions are worth getting?
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Are you ready to find out what the best board games and card games are from 2012?
While we don’t quite have that answer for you yet, we do have the list of nominations. And it’s quite the list!
How on earth can we say which are the best?
There’s no way to play them all. So for that, we turn to game reviews and players around the world. And we’ve found the best compilation comes from The Dice Tower Awards.
Here’s the list of nominations for Best Board Games of 2012.
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I love it when I’m flipping through the newspaper while I eat breakfast and come across an article on board games! Even when it covers something I know well – like today’s article on the Family Benefits of Board Games – it’s just great to see it published for more people to come to understand.
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Set is a family card game that’s fun for some and frustrating for others. It’s simple to understand but may be hard to execute…Depending on how fast you are at spotting sets.
It gets mixed reviews in our family – some love it, some not so much. Find out why…
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Are you ready to play a bunch of board games and card games on International Tabletop Day this Saturday, March 30?
We’re ready to have some fun with family and friends – hanging out and having fun playing all sorts of games.
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Taking a fun 2-player abstract strategy board game and turning it into a similarly fun abstract strategy board game for more players can be difficult. But the folks at Mindtwister managed to make it work well with Pentago Multiplayer.
Just over a year ago we reviewed Pentago and we gave it high marks for a number of reasons. Pentago Multiplayer has all those and more.
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Many years ago Michelle and I played a card game at a friend’s house that required quick visual recognition to spot sets of 3 cards that were either all the same or all different in each of 4 characteristics. The card game was Set and I loved it while Michelle didn’t care for it.
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As much as we like to promote family board games, we also realize that life isn’t all fun and games. Spending your time just playing games all day won’t amount to a very fulfilling life. And as parents, our job is to help our kids lead a productive and fulfilling life.
That’s why one of our most important roles as parents is to teach our kids to value work.
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There’s a lot of great stuff happening in the family board game world.
(Of course we think that anything that gets your family together is something great.)
But there are a few things we’ve heard about board games recently that have us really excited.
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