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299 – Dani Effertz, Sovranti – The Family Gamers Podcast
Sovranti is a digital board game app allowing friends to play board games across the world. Dani is the community manager for Sovranti, and she’s going to tell us more about it!
» Read moreDisney’s Kingdom Hearts: Perilous Pursuits
The Op has combined the Kingdom Hearts brand with their Perilous Pursuits system. Join Sora, Donald, and the rest of the gang to save the world!
» Read more298 – Looking Forward to Summer – The Family Gamers Podcast
This week, we’re looking forward to summer, with resources for playing games with kids, and a short discussion of what we’re looking forward to playing with our extra time.
» Read moreSNAP Review – Unmatched: Jurassic Park – Dr. Sattler vs. T. Rex
Who hasn’t secretly wanted to be a dinosaur who could bite people’s heads off? Now you can, in Unmatched: Jurassic Park – Dr. Sattler vs. T. Rex.
» Read more297 – Kevin & Melissa Delp, Tantrum House – The Family Gamers Podcast
Today on the podcast, we welcome Kevin and Melissa Delp, part of the team at Tantrum House. Fact – Clematis is a type of flowering plant – which currently has 297 species. What We’ve Been Playing Skyrise (Roxley)Under Falling Skies (CGE – our review)UNDO: Forbidden Knowledge (Pegasus Spiele – review coming soon)Space Station Phoenix (Rio Grande)Rear Window (Funko Games)Batman: Everybody
» Read moreBatman: Everybody Lies – Dark Detective Drama
From its first notes, Batman: Everybody Lies taps deeply into its roots in the award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. But as big fans of Batman, we wish it had something more.
» Read moreSNAP Review – Sherlock: Case Connection
Connect the dots and catch the bad guys in this light puzzle game that’s based on the TV show, but appropriate for all ages.
» Read more296 – Boardgames and Reading – The Family Gamers Podcast
SNAP Review – Sunny Day Sardines
No matter how you feel about tiny fish, Sunny Day Sardines is a compact, fast-moving game that everyone in the family can play.
» Read moreWatergate – Conspiratorial Cardboard Cunning
In Watergate, one player is a Newspaper Editor & one the Nixon Administration. Who can secure or hide the evidence? A thrilling race begins!
» Read more295 – with Little Big Thumbs, JP Decosse – The Family Gamers Podcast
This week we welcome JP Decosse, also known as “Big Papa Thumbs” from Little Big Thumbs. Fact(s) – We have 3 ridiculous Guinness World records this week: The longest jump on a unicycle (295 cm), the most handheld lasers lit simultaneously (295 lasers), and the most people filling in their eyebrows simultaneously (295 people, organized in the shape of two
» Read moreSNAP Review – Top Trumps Match
Top Trumps Match is a simple game for two players that feels a little bit like Connect 4 and a little like Battleship.
» Read more294 – Super-Short Games – The Family Gamers Podcast
We’ve run out of time for games lately! So what better to talk about than games that only take a few minutes to play?
» Read more293 – Phil-Walker Harding & Joey Games – The Family Gamers Podcast
This week, we welcome Phil Walker-Harding to talk about a few of his game designs and Joey Games.
» Read moreSNAP Review – The Goonies: Escape with One-Eyed Willy’s Rich Stuff
No Truffle Shuffle here, but “The Goonies: Escape with One-Eyed Willy’s Rich Stuff” follows the plot of the movie remarkably closely.
Relive the adventure as a family in this puzzle game played over 3 acts (each running around 45 minutes).
Meeples and Monsters – Wood You Like to Play?
Our favorite little wooden characters must defend the city of Rowan! Train them up into clerics, warriors, knights, and more, while building new buildings and working toward the final battle with the Dark Overlords!
» Read more292 – Making Time for Board Games – The Family Gamers Podcast
How do we figure out how to make time for gaming together as a family? It’s hard when we’re all so busy. But we have 4 tips that can help.
» Read moreSNAP Review – 25 Words or Less
Every word counts in this fast-paced board game – but is it a good fit to play with kids?
» Read moreCuriouser and Curiouser – A Case of Curious Cargo
Make the things, pipe them to the trucks, and ship them! Try to receive anything shipped to you and pipe it back into your machines! That’s the general premise behind Curious Cargo, a game by Ryan Courtney and published by Capstone Games. Curious Cargo is a two-player only game for industrial engineers age 12+ that have an hour to spare.
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