Build Your Own Amusement: Tiny Park
Building an amusement park immediately captures kids’ interest. Tiny Park from HABA teaches decoding, critical thinking, and encourages emotional intelligence and experimentation.
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Building an amusement park immediately captures kids’ interest. Tiny Park from HABA teaches decoding, critical thinking, and encourages emotional intelligence and experimentation.
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Welcome to the exciting world of bug collecting! Snatch bugs off the rug to add to your collection, but watch out for the bugs you don’t catch – they’ll fly onto the wall and do tricky things.
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Brainwaves games challenge you to remember details about previously-revealed cards. But each stretches your working memory in a different way.
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Box of Rocks and Parent Quiz are two simple trivia games designed for family play. Each takes just a few minutes and encourage discussion among the players. Which one is right for your family?
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It’s hard to put a twist on trick-taking that really feels new. Bottle Imp does this, but in a way that makes us work a little harder than we’d like.
» Read moreThe Family Gamers are going to be at the Boston Festival of Indie Games tomorrow in Boston, MA! Will you be there? Check out the games and let us know if there are any you’re dying to see!
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We are looking forward to the Boston Festival of Indie Games coming up this Saturday. We can’t wait to talk to lots of game developers. Will we see you there? If not, are there any particular games you would like us to cover? Stay tuned for interviews, impressions, and lots of pictures!
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Nick reviews the first edition of Boomerang, a phenomenal small box game. Draft cards to collect photos and souvenirs all around Australia, but be careful that your “throw” card is less than the final card you “catch”!
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Did you know that ghosts can scare each other? Neither did I until I played BOO, a compact game for two players from Perplext. Did this ghostly game grip us, or were we perplexed by this petite phantasmal puzzler?
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Bonsai – The ancient Japanese art of cultivating miniature trees in pots becomes a captivating tile-placement board game!
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Boblin’s Rebellion is more than just cute goblins. It’s a good engine builder with a unique twist: Your engine is constantly falling apart.
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Several games we reviewed in the past year inspired me to come up with some real groaner puns. Share them with your friends!
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Over the past year, I think many families have been reminded how great it is to sit down and play board games together. If you’d like to add a few games to your holiday shopping list, we have suggestions for all ages and situations.
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haven’t encountered another 30-minute game that we’ve put on the table as often as Bloom Town. Easy to play and surprisingly deep in strategy, it’s a great game with unique mechanics and a variety of paths to victory.
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I’ve always been a fan of the medieval time period for its astonishing castles and Arthurian lore. Blazon focuses on one aspect of medieval history; heraldry.
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BLANK is basically a starter pack for the interested designer; it provides a template to create rules and effects to make the game your own.
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Blank Slate is a party style game in which players try to come up a word that completes a cue card and matches exactly one other player. My gaming tastes don’t really lean towards party gaming at all, but I did find Blank Slate to be enjoyable for certain occasions…
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“Busking” is playing music in a public place to earn money. And there’s no better place in the world for street musicians than New Orleans, the Big Easy. Use your band’s energy to play jazz standards and new pieces – then gain money and influence from the crowd! Big Easy Busking is a game for 1-5 players by Joshua J.
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