While we may be down 1 board game player, 1 board game reviewer, and our board game reviews video editor, that won’t stop our drive to tell everyone how great family game time can be.
Regardless of what grade your kids are heading into this year, there are plenty of fantastic board games and card games for you to play with them. Check out our short list of great games for different age ranges.
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I don’t think I’ve anticipated working on a merit badge with as much enthusiasm as I have for the one we began tonight – Game Design!
Boy are these scouts in for a treat!
The Boy Scouts of America added the Game Design merit badge to the mix in March 2013. And I’ve been waiting for the chance to work on it with our scouts ever since.
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When we heard the game publisher, iello, was going to make King of New York, it was immediately added to our “games we can’t wait for” list.
The details on the release of King of New York are hush-hush for another week. The big promotion starts next week at GenCon (the largest board game convention in the US). So we’re really looking forward to hearing more soon.
But prior to that, we’ve got something special to share – an exclusive sneak peek at one of the cards: Broadway Star
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The best board games, card games, dice games, family games, and party games of 2013 have now been awarded!
With more than 3,000+ new games published in 2013, there were a ton to choose from.
But the 40+ top board game reviewers around the world were up to the challenge.
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This week we’re having a family reunion and I’m in charge of supplying the games.
Of course, supplying board games to play for the occasion isn’t a big surprise. It’s really something I do anyway whenever we get together with family.
The toughest question is which games to take…
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Is one night enough to track down werewolves roaming around the village?
Well, in One Night Ultimate Werewolf that’s all the time you’ve got. So you better make it count.
Just like it’s predecessor, in One Night Ultimate Werewolf each player takes on the role of Villager, Werewolf, or a special Villager Role. The Villager team wants to take down at least one Werewolf to win and the Werewolf team wins if no Werewolves die.
But the biggest differences are that there’s only one night phase and no one dies.
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Don’t you love it when you know the right answer in a trivia game?
When you hear a question that you actually know the right answer to, do you want to jump right out of your chair shouting out the answer?
Well, what if you played a trivia game where you know ALL the answers?
Would you have as much fun?
What if it were a game where the Right answer may be the Wrong response and cost you a point?
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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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There must be a lot of Trivial Pursuit lovers in the world because there’s an excessive number of Trivial Pursuit
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As we dive into a new year, I love to look back over the board games, card games, and party games I’ve played during the past year.
For 2013, I’ve played 125 different games!
Thanks to BoardGameGeek.com as well as the cool app for it, it’s so simple to record which board games I play. After playing a game, I’ll simply click on “Record a Play” and boom, it’s done. Then I can easily pull reports of all sorts to review the games I’ve played.
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