When a game takes over almost all our family game time, it must mean it’s time to review it.
And while we have a large stack of games on our “to review” shelf, some games just shoot right to the top of the stack.
Such is the case with Skull King!
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As the days tick down for 2018, I was glancing over my list of games played this year and noticed an injustice. I’ve neglected to post a review of my most-played game of the year!
It’s a shame really. But there’s still time to right that wrong.
It’s time for Fuji Flush to take its well-deserved place among the great family games we’ve reviewed!
(And letting you know about it in time to get it for your family for Christmas.)
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In our home, it’s very rare that one game gets played every day for weeks on end. But that’s exactly what’s happened this past month since we started playing NMBR 9!
And it’s not pulled out to play on our game table downstairs, it’s front and center kitchen table play!
Which is also why it gets played multiple times after dinner (and sometimes after breakfast).
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You’ve rescued treasure from a sinking island and recovered a legendary flying machine from the desert — now it’s time to power up a rocket from a platform in the clouds 7,000 feet above the ground.
In order to do so, you’ll have to work together as a team to wire together capacitors and lightning rods in a true electrical circuit with the launch pad!
This third installment in the “Forbidden” series of cooperative games is more than just playing with tiles on a table. Players now must create an actual electrical circuit in order to win.
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The hot new movie out this week is Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. That’s why we’re excited about reviewing a hot new family board game this week — Fantastic Beasts: Perilous Pursuit!
In Fantastic Beasts: Perilous Pursuit players work together to capture 5 beasts by rolling special dice. However, if 2 beasts get away or one player loses all their Health, they all lose.
We’re big fans of cooperative games for families and we’ve really enjoyed playing Fantastic Beasts: Perilous Pursuit.
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It’s time to rounding our our week of 7 kids board game reviews!
The first is a game for kids learning the alphabet and the second is for kids who think they know it all.
Check out our reviews of Sequence Letters and Kids Know Best and then enter to win a copy for your family.
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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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Are you ready to paint some Happy Little Trees or Almighty Mountains?
That’s exactly what you get to do in Bob Ross: Art of Chill.
I’m pretty skeptical of board games based on pop culture references. Many times these publishers seem to rely on just the popular theme for success rather than quality game play. So when I heard about a board game based on Bob Ross, a PBS art show and personality from the 80’s, I was very skeptical.
It turns out that Bob Ross: The Art of Chill is my biggest surprise game this year!
I’ve had a great time playing it!
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Life sure isn’t easy on a deserted island. In fact, most of the time it can downright stink. But that isn’t to say there aren’t pleasures to be found.
Such is the case with the Robinson Crusoe 2nd edition board game from Portal Games.
It’s one of the hardest cooperative board games we’ve played. Yet it’s filled with so much adventuring theme and tough decisions, that we keep thinking about it long after we’ve played.
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In Hellapagos, you and your fellow castaways are shipwrecked on an island with an approaching hurricane in the distance. You must work together to have any hope of getting off the island before the hurricane strikes.
Or at least some of you may make it off the island alive…
Hellapagos is a semi-cooperative board game for up to 12 players that’s super challenging to all win together. But you have to try. Because if you don’t work together, no one will survive. By working together, there’s at least a chance you can make it.
Do you have what it takes to be one of the survivors?
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