“I would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling kids!”
If you recognize that statement, then you must be familiar with Scooby-Doo!
The question is, does your family have what it takes to solve the mystery at Lord Fairmont’s haunted mansion?
Of course, you’ll be channeling the skills and hijinks of Mystery Inc. with Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and of course Scooby-Doo!
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Do you prefer your Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts toasted or frozen?
If you’re like people we know, your immediate response may be, “you can eat them frozen?” Well, apparently you can.
And in Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts Game, by Funko, you’ll be taking both toasted and frozen Pop-Tarts to score points and hopefully be the first to eat 30 points worth of the convenient snack.
Pop-Tarts is a simple and quick card game that up to 6 players can enjoy.
Just be warned that you’ll probably need some snacks nearby because you’re going to get hungry playing the game.
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You’ve arrived for your vacation, and it’s time to hit the luau! As you arrive, you see a table full of beautiful and vibrant flowers. Once you meet some other guests at the party, you and the other players will begin making your own leis.
That’s the setting for Lucky Luau – a new card game from CardLords.
It’s a simple and quick card game where players draw flowers, leaves, and kukui nuts to string along their leis. Whoever has the best scoring lei when the flowers run out is the winner.
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There’s been a big meshing of digital and physical board games over the last decade.
Many physical board games have taken on digital form and can be a blast to play with friends at a distance. And other physical board games have incorporated a digital element that we love for extending the gameplay — such as the cooperative games Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition, and Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition that we love using the app to play the bad side.
Well, today we’ve got something quite different from anything we’ve reviewed in the past. It’s actually a digitally-driven complete game system called Blinks!
But it doesn’t use any computers, mobile devices, or apps. All the game data and rules are stored in the hex game pieces themselves!
The cool thing is that each hex game piece, called a Blink, stores the information/rules of one game. And that Blink “teaches” the other Blinks the rules of the game and then they’re all in!
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My day job is in marketing.
That means 25 years in marketing.
As such, I’ve heard many times about “guerilla marketing”.
So when I saw the game Gorilla Marketing, designed by Adam Wyse and published by Roxley Games, I couldn’t wait to give it a try!
I was especially excited to play with my Marketing team at work. But as luck would have it, the game arrived the very day we all started working from home because of COVID. Major bummer – no more lunch break games of any sort at the office.
But that wouldn’t deter me from giving it a shot with my family. And I’m so glad I did — because it’s been an absolute hoot!
We have yet to play a game without busting a gut laughing. And we have yet to stop playing after just one game. There’s just too much fun to be had!
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Zion National Park is like a second home to me.
It was my mom’s backyard growing up. So naturally, as a family, we spent a lot of time enjoying its beauty from grandma and grandpa’s farm. My most memorable summer growing up was the summer I spent living with my grandparents and working in the park.
And heading north, Yellowstone National Park is another one of my favorite places to visit.
And when we play Trekking the National Parks the board game, I get the itch to visit a lot more of the US National Parks.
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“This secluded elephant pool has never before been seen by civilized man. And looking at everyone on this boat, it still hasn’t.”
“Bamboo can grow to be six stories tall…although this bamboo looks about seven stories tall. But that’s a whole other story.”
These jokes probably sound very familiar if you’ve spent time aboard the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland or Disney World. And playing Disney Jungle Cruise Adventure Game, you’ll get to tell a whole bunch more!
But telling jokes isn’t the crux of the game, it’s just a by-product. Instead, the game pits players against each other racing along the river, collecting cargo, and keeping their passengers safe.
Ready to captain your boat to victory?
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How good are you at math?
Will it make a difference if you’re calculating over and over with a timer ticking away?
In Math Rush by Genius Games, you and your fellow players race against time to cooperatively play your cards to accomplish various goals.
It may sound simple, but when the timer’s ticking away, you’ll quickly find there’s more to think about during the game than just addition and subtraction.
We know because the challenge of this simple-sounding game caught us by surprise.
How well will your family do?
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Do you like deck-building games like Dominion, Clank!, Legendary, and Thudersone Quest?
What about resource-collecting/converting games like Century: Golem?
How would you like a game that mixes those game mechanisms together?
Well, that’s what you get with Rune Stones by Queen Games!
At SaltCon 2020, I was able to get in a demo game of Rune Stones with some friends and we all enjoyed it.
And now that I’ve played it a number of times since then, it’s time to share my thoughts on this family board game.
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I was a teenager when the first Back to the Future movie hit the big screen in 1985. And I remember absolutely loving the movie!
The premise was a lot of fun and I laughed the whole time.
That first movie became a cultural iconic film that’s still fun to revisit to this day. That also explains why a bunch of Back to the Future games have been made since. Unfortunately, the few I’ve played over the years haven’t been very good games.
That is, until now!
Back to the Future: Back in Time, by Funko, breaks that mold. As a cooperative board game, it delivers the right type of gameplay for the theme — making a fun game!
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