Will your pairs match others in Pluckin’ Pairs?

Today while talking to a co-worker, she mentioned that when her family gets together, they love to play Apple to Apples.

When it comes to modern party games, a lot of people are familiar with Apples to Apples and enjoy playing it with family and friend. It’s a simple game of picking the best matches among a set of words.

Well, there’s a new party game about making matches for you to take a look at – Pluckin’ Pairs.

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Board Games rolling strong

I was quite surprised this morning when I saw not 1, but 2 articles about board games in our local newspaper today!

The first headline that caught my eye on the front page of the Entertainment section was “We are living in a board game renaissance“. Which got a hearty “You bet!” from me.

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Top 10 Family Board Games – Slideshare

Modern family board games have come a long way from just “roll-and-move”. With so many fantastic board games to choose from, what are the best?
What family board games should be on everyone’s shelf so no matter the situation, they’ve got a great game ready to play for some fun family time?

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Back to School Games

The first sure sign that summer’s coming to an end is Back To School night. While it means an end to summer, I always get excited for Back To School night. I love taking our kids to see their classrooms and meeting their new teachers.

Whether your kids are getting back in school this week or next week or next month, chances are they’ll be dusting off their thinking caps pretty soon.

So we thought we’d cover a couple of board games that are well suited for school time.

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Forbidden Desert – more cooperative family fun!

Forbidden Desert is a fantastic cooperative family board game!
There you have it. No need to beat around the bush.

We love Forbidden Island and when Gamewright announced last year that they were coming out with a sequel of sorts, we were super excited. And we’re even more excited now that we have the game and find that we enjoy it even more!

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Risk Legacy game #4 – Caleb wins!

If you hate knowing the end of the story before you even begin, then I apologize for the title of this post. But I’m so excited to report that our 10 year old Caleb won our latest Risk Legacy that I just had to put it in the title.

Now, on to the fun…

After a few weeks of scout camps and weekends away, my boys and I were finally able to get Risk Legacy back to the table last night.

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