This weekend was SaltCON – the annual board game convention in Utah, USA – and it was a blast!
Although the event runs for 3 days, I just attended on Friday and Saturday. And even though I ended up leaving earlier than I had anticipated Saturday evening, I left feeling very full.
Full from a lot of great game playing and full from meeting a bunch of new friends.
Overall, I played 16 different board games!
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Jungle Ascent is a fun family board game that young and old can enjoy together.
Like many jungle games, players compete to claim treasure. But unlike other jungle games where players have to find and uncover the treasure, in Jungle Ascent the treasure is out in the open.
It just happens to be perched at the top of a steep cliff.
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Fluxx The Board Game is a light, fun family board game with similar randomness to the Fluxx card games, but with a bit a strategy to boot. Who would have thought that Looney Labs could throw some strategy into their Fluxx games?
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Our family loves BANG!
In fact BANG! is the card game that started us on this journey of reviewing fun family board games and card games in the fist place. This year will mark 5 years of reviewing games and BANG! is still one of our favorites.
So when BANG! The Dice Game came out, we immediately put it on our game wish list.
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If your kids love cute farm animals, then it’s likely they’ll enjoy My Happy Farm.
Kids will love feeding their animals to make them grow. And while they’re making their animals happy, they’ll also be developing some great thinking skills. (But they don’t need to know that.)
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International Tabletop Day kicked off it’s inaugural run last year and was a huge success.
There were 3,123 gaming events in 64 countries worldwide!
That’s a lot of gaming.
With a successful first run last year, of course that means International Tabletop Day will now be an annual event.
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With the rise of everything digital, are physical board games on the way out?
Can digital board games deliver the same level of enjoyment as their physical versions?
It’s a hot topic in the board game industry.
Since we started reviewing board games over, the growth of digital board games has skyrocketed.
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Our family was referenced in a news article this week that’s put big smiles on our faces!
We were pleasantly surprised to see us mentioned in The Deseret News article, “Which board games are right for your family?” earlier this week.
We weren’t just happy because we were referenced in the article. We were also happy to see such a great article outlining the wide variety of modern board games that families can enjoy playing together.
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I finished a project this week that was a lot of fun for me. Since it involved foamcore cutting and gluing it seemed like a kid’s school project (which we’ve done plenty of getting 4 kids through elementary school years).
But the beauty of this project was that it was all mine. Nothing to be graded as a class assignment or judged in a science fair. In fact it will hardly be seen at all – most likely by just my boys and I – since it now resides inside a board game box.
It’s a way to organize all our Descent Journeys in the Dark 2nd edition board game components into 1 game box!
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You’re a pirate lost at sea with a shark hot on your tail – what will you do?
Good thing your pirate buddies are out in the water with you because now all you’ll have to do is out-swim the other pirates.
Get Bit! is another simple and fun pirate board game that kids will love.
There may not really be a ‘board’ per se and it’s really more of a card game. But what Get Bit! does come with are 6 cool pirate characters with detachable body parts!
Yep – that’s the best part of the game in Caleb’s view too. He shows how much fun it is to pull off pirate limbs in his short video review of Get Bit!
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