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Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Kraken board game expansion

Dead Men Tell No Tales: Kraken expansion review

You’ve vanquished the skeleton crew, you’ve grabbed the loot, you’ve kept the deckhands in check, and you’re about to escape the burning ship to enjoy your spoils when it happens.

The ship starts to shake. The floorboards start to rumble. Then all of a sudden, tentacles start bursting through the boards all over the ship.

You and your fellow pirates stumble away from them the best you can when you notice the Kraken surface just off the bow of the ship and block your exit!

How will you survive? Start loading the cannons and take it down!

You can in Dead Men Tells No Tales: The Kraken expansion.

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, 5-player, cooperative game, Minion Games, solo, strategy, theme

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Codenames enters the Wizarding World!

We’re big Codenames fans.

And we’re also big Harry Potter fans.

So mixing Codenames and Harry Potter should be a slam-dunk of fun, right?

We’re ready to share our thoughts on this latest Codenames iteration — Codenames: Harry Potter!

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 2-player, Codenames, Czech Games, deduction, Harry Potter, teams, theme, USAopoly

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Make time for a Dinosaur Tea Party

When was the last time you had tea with dinosaurs?

If your answer is “never”, then it’s time to change that!

Dinosaur Tea Party is a fantastic family game of deduction that everyone can enjoy playing.

It’s also another game that quickly jumped into one of our most-played games of 2018!

January 16, 2019January 17, 2019 Trent 0 Comments 3-players, 4 players, 5 players, deduction, Restoration Games, theme

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2018 – Year in Review

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.

January 4, 2019December 20, 2023 Trent 2 Comments board game, card game, family game, kids, luck, Star Wars, strategy, theme

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Shadows: Amsterdam could be Zootopia the board game

Shadows: Amsterdam is a real-time, simultaneous deduction game played in teams. It’s full of colorful artwork, obscure clues, frantic racing, and lots of fun.

It also reminds us a lot of the movie Zootopia!

Just like in the movie, you’re trying to solve a crime by following clues all over colorful locations. The great thing is that you’re not alone. Work together with your teammates to make your way around the city to solve the case!

December 12, 2018 Trent 0 Comments 2 players, 3-players, 4 players, 5 players, 6 players, 7 players, 8 players, Asmodee, deduction, kids, team, theme

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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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Get painting with Bob Ross: Art of Chill

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!

October 10, 2018 Trent 2 Comments 2-player, 3-player, 4-player, Big G Creative, card, set collection, theme

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It’s hard being Robinson Crusoe

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.