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Record numbers at SaltCon 2019!

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.

March 10, 2019August 1, 2019 Trent 3 Comments abstract, card, cooperative, dice, family game, luck, SaltCon, strategy

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Forbidden Sky delivers cooperative science

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.

November 27, 2018 Trent 5 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, cooperative, Gamewright, luck, strategy, theme

Fantastic Beasts Perilous Pursuit board game

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Fantastic Beasts: Perilous Pursuit – cooperative family fun

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.

November 21, 2018November 27, 2018 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, cooperative, dice, luck, movie, theme, USAopoly

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Best Games of the Year are pretty gloomy

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!

July 13, 2018December 20, 2023 Trent 2 Comments adventure, awards, cooperative, family, luck, party, Star Wars, strategy, The Dice Tower, theme

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Unlock! Adventure Series game reviews

What does a submarine, train, buried treasure, hieroglyphics, mouse, and the emerald city have in common?

They’re all things you’ll discover playing Unlock! Escape Adventure games!

While the basics of how the games works may be the same, the elements and puzzles to solve within the games are completely unique. And they’re all loads of fun!

June 1, 2018February 1, 2019 Trent 3 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, 6-player, Asmodee, cooperative, escape, solo, strategy, theme, Unlock

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Jurassic Park Danger! board game review

When Jurassic Park first his movie theaters in 1993 I was blown away!

I was transported to Isla Nublar and caught up in a world with dinosaurs that exploded my imagination. And it’s remained a favorite movie of mine ever since.

Fast forward to now – 25 years later – where the Jurassic Park experience has been aptly transferred into a fun and challenging board game.

Over the years there have been a number of attempts at creating a Jurassic Park board game. But none of those have come close to recreating the feel of being on Isla Nublar with dinosaurs like Jurassic Park Danger does!

May 17, 2018July 19, 2018 Trent 10 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, cooperative, luck, Ravensburger, theme

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Thanos Rising: Avengers Infinity War board game review

It looks like Avengers Infinity War smashed all global box office records with the biggest opening weekend of any movie with $641 million!

Wow!

While we didn’t see Avengers Infinity War opening weekend, we did the next best thing — we played the about-to-be-released board game, Thanos Rising: Avengers Infinity War!

That’s right, we were lucky enough to get our hot little hands on a copy of Thanos Rising from USAopoly before it’s release to stores and we’re going to tell you all about it!

May 1, 2018May 14, 2018 Trent 7 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, Avengers, cooperative, dice, luck, USAopoly

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Go full stealth mode in V-Commandos

Regular visitors to our site may already know that one of my favorite board games is a WWII game called Memoir ’44. The game we’re reviewing today is also a WWII-themed board game – but it’s cooperative!

Instead of battling against each other, in V-Commandos players work together to take out enemy objectives in a WWII setting. Yet rather than relying on brute strength to take out enemies and objectives, this game hinges on stealth operations.

Let’s see if V-Commandos is a game that might strike your fancy.