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Lucky Luau Game Preview

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.

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Trent 1 Comment 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, card, CardLords, luck

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Blinks Game System Review

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!

September 4, 2020September 8, 2020 Trent 0 Comments 10-player, 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, 7-player, 8-player, 9-player, Blinks, colorful, digital, solo

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Gorilla Marketing party game review

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!

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 Trent 0 Comments 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, 7-player, 8-player, judging, party, Roxley Games

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Decrypto board game review

It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since we posted our last review. There have only a few periods of time over the past decade where we haven’t posted a board game review at least once a week. But we all know the past couple of months have been anything but normal.

But today we’re going to remedy that! (Not the world back to normal, but us back to posting a fun family game review.)

And to jump right back into things we’re reviewing a game we received from our BoardGameGeek.com Secret Santa for last Christmas. It’s also one of our most-played games since then – DECRYPTO!

Decrypto is a team game for up to 8 players of codebreaking and it’s addicting.

May 25, 2020June 8, 2020 Trent 0 Comments 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, 7-player, 8-player, Clue, code, guess, secret, strategy

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Calling all creative detectives for Detective Club!

How good are your detective skills?

No, not like CSI skills. But rather, your powers of detecting the bluffer among you?

Detective Club, by Blue Orange Games, gives you a chance to find out!

When I look over the list of board games we’ve reviewed over the last 10 years, Blue Orange Games is second on the list of game publishers in quantity of our game reviews.

And there’s a very good reason for that — Blue Orange Games publishes fantastic board games for families!

We’re happy to report that Detective Club continues with that tradition.

March 4, 2020 Trent 0 Comments 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, 7-player, 8-player, art, Blue Orange Games, bluffing, Dixit, party, Spyfall

Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig board game

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Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig game review

“The king demands a castle!

You’re a world-renowned master builder who has been asked by Mad King Ludwig to help design his castles. Projects of such significance require the expertise of more than one person, so for each assignment you’re paired with another master builder to execute your grandiose plans.

Will your planning and collaborative skills be enough to design the most impressive castles in the world?”

Such is the introduction to the tile-laying, family board game, Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, a collaborative production from Stonemaier Games and Bézier Games.

And what a fantastic collaborative production it is!

February 27, 2020 Trent 2 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, 7-player, Bezier Games, drafting, Stonemaier Games, tile-laying, tiles

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Extraordinary Adventures: Pirates board game review

Ahoy mateys!

It’s time to hit the Caribbean, set sail, and race other pirate crews from port to port toward the Spanish Treasure Galleon at Trinidad in Extraordinary Adventures: Pirates board game by Forbidden Games.

But it’s not necessarily the first to Trinidad that gets the most spoils.

Along the way, you’ll guide your multiple ships to plunder merchant vessels and stop in ports to exchange your cargo for valuable treasures and recruit more crew. The additional crew will help your ships sail faster and pull off additional feats.

Are you ready for the adventure?

January 18, 2020January 18, 2020 Trent 2 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, family, Forbidden Games, pirate, strategy, theme

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Point Salad scores big!

This past summer I switched jobs.

The switch was great for me for a number of reasons. One of the cool perks is that there are a bunch of employees that love playing games during lunch breaks.

Since not every game makes a great lunch break game, I’ve been selective on which games to take to the office to play.

A good lunch break game is one that’s quick to set up, relatively quick to play, easy to teach, can accommodate varying numbers of players, has a lot of replay value, and can be enjoyed by almost anyone.

Point Salad has turned out to be a perfect lunch break game!

It also gets lunch break game bonus points for being about food!

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, AEG, card, luck, quick, strategy

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Spyfall & Spyfall 2 Party Game Review

Do you love party games?
Do you love deduction games?
What about a game that combines both elements?

If so, you’re in luck because Spyfall is both a party game and a deduction game!

We included both Spyfall and Spyfall 2 in our annual Board Game Gift Guides in the past because they’re such fun games.

December 11, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 10-player, 11-player, 12-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, 7-player, 8-player, 9-player, Cryptozoic, deduction, Hobby World, party

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Be your favorite Disney villain in Villainous!

With the launch of Disney+ this past month, millions of families are watching tons of classic Disney movies lately.

Of course, to families with young children, this comes as no surprise because they’ve probably been watching lots of Disney movies regularly anyway. In all these movies, we cheer for the hero.

Well, what about the Villains?

If we were to view these movies from the perspective of the villains, they’ve got some major challenges to overcome as well.

Now it’s your turn to try!