Are you looking for fun board games as gifts for family and friends?
Then you’ve come to the right place!
Because for the 9th year running, we’ve got fantastic suggestions for you!
This year’s Board Game Gift Guide includes 43 great game ideas in various categories: children, family, dice, party, cooperative, abstract, and more!
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Have you ever bet on a camel race?
I doubt that most people readying our game reviews have.
Well, now’s your chance! Step up to the table in Camel Up and give it a shot!
Of course, there isn’t any real betting going on, but you are guessing which camels are going to be in the lead each leg and win the race in the end.
And with how these camels move in the race, you can never be quite sure how it’s going to finish.
So much fun!
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One of our favorite game accessories (if you could call it an accessory) is our Game Canopy game bag.
Any time we want to take some games with us — whether on vacation, or to grandma’s house, or to a game convention, or over to a buddy’s house for game night — we fill our Game Canopy with games and we’re on our way!
While the Game Canopy can fit a bunch of games, not all game boxes are created equal. And unfortunately, this means some of the games we may like to take for a game night away just won’t fit in the Game Canopy.
Well, that’s now a concern of the past — because The Game Canopy Deep Space game bag is set to release!
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Another super fun weekend of board gaming at SaltCon is in the books!
I look forward to SaltCon with high anticipation every year and it never disappoints.
And that’s exactly how I’m feeling again looking back on last weekend of fun board gaming with friends and strangers.
SaltCon is our local board game convention that rolls around the first weekend of March. And like the previous years, it continues to hit record numbers.
For SaltCon 2019, more than 1,900 people came for the fun!
Here’s my quick run down on the 20+ games I played over the couple days I was there.
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Happy New Year!
We’re not sure if 2018 flew by for you, but it sure seemed like it did for us. We passed a number of milestones as a family this year. And we ended 2018 with a bang by taking a family vacation over Christmas and into the New Year. It’s so great to all be together again.
But before we dive into the new year, let’s take a look back at 2018.
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It’s time again for our annual Board Game Gift Guide!
This time of year, most people looking for board games are doing so as gifts for family and friends. And that’s where we’re very happy to help!
This year’s Board Game Gift Guide includes 30 great game ideas!
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Our first set of kids game reviews this week each had some elements of math to them.
Today we’re leaving the math behind and moving on to silly fun.
We’ll first head out to pasture and build some cows, then it’s on to silly faces and sounds.
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The best board games, card games, dice games, family games, and party games of 2017 have now been awarded!
And as many might have expected, the results are pretty gloomy this year.
As in, Gloomhaven took the awards by storm winning in 5 categories!
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As much as we like board games, we say the best games to take along on a family vacation are card games.
Why?
Because most are compact, short, simple to understand, cover a wide range of player counts and ages, and have high replay value.
Here’s our list of 15 fantastic family card games for your next family vacation!
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This beautiful time of year also means Spring Cleaning…
Not only are the lawn tools getting dusted off and the garage cleaned, but other areas of the house are getting their turn at fresh organizing as well — including the game closet!
And whenever it’s time for game organizing, we turn to Insert Here for game inserts. They make foam core game box inserts for over 200 popular board, card, and dice games!
Today we’d like to share our thoughts on 3 custom game inserts from Insert Here.
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