Do you like social deduction games where you’re trying to figure out who people are and what their allegiances are?
If so, then we think you’ll like The Resistance.
The Resistance is like a number of other social deduction games but has some great elements that makes it unique – and that bring up a lot more interaction and guessing.
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Our family had a great time the other night playing Befuzzled. And though we’ve had this card game for a while, we haven’t yet posted a review of it. Well, it’s time to change that because Befuzzled is a fun family game.
Even though I just mentioned Befuzzled as a card game, it feels more like a party game. Mostly because everyone’s acting out at the same time and there’s a lot of laughing.
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How would you like to win a new party game?
Well, the folks at Stratus Games are ready to give away a copy of their upcoming party game – Off Your Rocker!
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It’s that time of year again – time for the annual Dice Tower Awards!
Well, actually it’s time for the game nominations to be announced.
This week, The Dice Tower Network announced the nominations for the Dice Tower Gaming Awards for 2011. A committee made up of over 40 prominent board game podcasters and bloggers has come up with the lists of the best games released in the year 2011.
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There are a lot of party games that have a moderator asking questions or making statements. Chances are you’ve played a number of them.
But have you ever played any that have people slapping the table for the answer?
In Trigger, players get that chance.
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Since we started doing video reviews of family board games (just over 2 years), we’ve posted 110 board game and card game reviews and over 100 articles related to family time and board games. And as of today (2/29/12), our videos have been viewed more than 320,000 times!
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This past weekend I spent a lot of time playing games. And it was a lot of fun!
It was the annual board game convention in our area – SaltCON – and I was once again asked to be a judge in the new family game design competition.
And I just have to say that it was pretty cool to take a day off of work to go play games.
we can’t claim that our game closet has always been organized either. In fact, we didn’t start out with a board game closet even on the list. Our current board game closet was actually built to be a storage closet. And we planned for a cabinet in the family room where we’d place our games so we could easily pull them out to play. But then the family board game bug struck and before you know it, we got carried away.
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This month The Dice Tower podcast released 2 episodes focused on the Best Board Games of 2011. The great thing about this source for a “best of” listing is that contributors from around the world weigh in on what they believe the best games of 2011 were.
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What defines a board game or card game?
In our view, the whole definition of a board game or card game revolves around it being something physical that you can touch, feel, and move around. Playing board games is all about the social interaction of sitting around, face-to-face and moving stuff around on the table or from hand to hand.