SNAP Reviews

Let us tell you about new family games – in a SNAP review! We take just 5 minutes of audio or video to review GAMES – Game, Art, Mechanics, Expectations, and Surprises.

No time to listen? Prefer your short reviews in another format? Read the written summary. Pictures and a star rating will help you learn about games quickly.

Are these games the right fit for your family? Listen and find out – in a SNAP!

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SNAP Review – Most Wanted

September 13, 2019 Updated: February 13th, 2023 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Can you become the Most Wanted outlaw in the wild west? Try your luck to rob the stagecoach and duel your fellow outlaws in this fast-playing game. We’ll tell you about it in 7 minutes.

SNAP Review – SHOBU: Beautifully Challenging

September 6, 2019 Updated: June 16th, 2025 Anitra Smith Hall of Fame Reviews, SNAP Reviews

SHOBU is an abstract two player game that immediately feels classic. The simplicity of play and beautiful natural materials are immediately inviting. Splitting your focus between 4 boards and out-thinking your opponent will keep you coming back for more.

SNAP Review – Guess It, Get It, Gumballs: A Game of Faces and Feelings

August 23, 2019 Updated: April 21st, 2020 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Grab gumballs, then guess what they’re feeling! Guess It, Get It, Gumballs is a unusual cooperative memory game for ages 4+. It’s perfect to get your kid talking about feelings.

SNAP Review – Go Cuckoo!: A Nest for All Ages

August 16, 2019 Updated: April 21st, 2020 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Did you know that cuckoos don’t build their own nests? Kiki Cuckoo never learned to build one, and now she needs your help! Elliot helps Andrew and Anitra explain this cute all-ages dexterity game from HABA.

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Andrew, animals, Anitra, audio, birds, dexterity games, Elliot, HABA, young children

SNAP Review – Sky Magic

August 9, 2019 Updated: February 20th, 2021 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Guide magical creatures to their homes in the sky, and use magic to push away the oncoming storm. Roll the dice and move any character in Sky Magic, a simple cooperative game with lots of imagination.

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Andrew, animals, Anitra, Asher, audio, cooperative games, dragons, Elliot, fantasy, Peaceable Kingdom

SNAP Review – Hex Roller

August 2, 2019 Updated: August 7th, 2023 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Hex Roller stands out from a lot of other roll-and-write games because it dispenses with theme, to focus on making this puzzle the best it can be.

SNAP Review – Slide Quest

July 26, 2019 Updated: January 2nd, 2023 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

We love Slide Quest, a cooperative dexterity puzzle game. Work together to slide the rolling knight through 5 levels, knocking enemies over on the way.

SNAP Review – Filler: Bite-Size Baking

July 14, 2019 Updated: September 19th, 2022 Anitra Smith Hall of Fame Reviews, SNAP Reviews

I love eating baked goods, but my daughter loves making them. In Filler, 1-6 players are pastry chefs, reporting to work at the bakery. Use your supplies to fill recipes; may the best baker win!

SNAP Review – Dirty Pig Card Game

July 6, 2019 Updated: April 6th, 2021 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Your goal: get all your pigs dirty first – because dirty pigs are happy pigs!

SNAP Review – Best Treehouse Ever – Forest of Fun

June 21, 2019 Updated: March 24th, 2021 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Best Treehouse Ever: Forest of Fun from Scott Almes and Green Couch Games is a solid game that improves and expands on the original. What does an 8 year old think? Listen and find out!

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Anitra, Asher, audio, Best Treehouse Ever, card games, Green Couch Games

SNAP Review – Tokyo Jutaku

June 14, 2019 Updated: February 14th, 2021 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Have you always wanted to be an architect? Try your hand at creating towers to fit in tight spaces in Tokyo Jutaku, a speed building game from Jordan Draper Games.

SNAP Review – Inoka

June 7, 2019 Updated: December 6th, 2020 Nick Martinelli SNAP Reviews

Forest creatures fight in a beautifully illustrated game reminiscent of rock-paper-scissors for 2-4 players. Nick tells us what his family likes about Inoka.

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audio, battle, Card Game, card games, Izzy, Nick, XYZ Game Labs

SNAP Review – Shadows in Kyoto

May 25, 2019 Updated: March 20th, 2020 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

A two-player game of hidden identity. Move your agents across the board and try to get agents with *real intelligence* into your opponent’s home row.

SNAP Review – The Stars Align

May 17, 2019 Updated: November 12th, 2020 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Who doesn’t like shooting stars – and laid-back puzzley gameplay? That’s the premise behind The Stars Align from Breaking Games.

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2 players, abstract, Anitra, audio, Breaking Games, polyomino, puzzles, stars

SNAP Review – Supertall: The Sky’s the Limit!

April 27, 2019 Updated: December 5th, 2022 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a skyscraper! Build the tallest and best buildings in Supertall, a micro game designed by Nat Levan and published by Button Shy Games.

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2 players, 3 players, Anitra, audio, build, Button Shy Games, Card Game, city building, Nat Levan

SNAP Review – Tiny Ninjas

April 5, 2019 Updated: November 12th, 2020 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Duel to the death with a cast of unlikely-looking ninjas in Tiny Ninjas, a portable game of cards and dice by Ryan Leininger.

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2 players, Anitra, Asher, audio, battle, card games, dice, ninja

SNAP Review – Fluff: Liar’s Dice for Cunning Critters

March 29, 2019 Updated: March 31st, 2024 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Fluff, from Bananagrams, is actually the two-hundred-year-old game Liar’s Dice, with adorable but shady looking critters and clever dice cups. Claire tells you why we like it.

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2 players, 3 players, 4 players, animals, Anitra, audio, Bananagrams, bluffing, Claire, dice

SNAP Review – Shikoku: The Middle Path

March 22, 2019 Updated: March 4th, 2023 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

In Shikoku, you learn that coming in first isn’t always the best. We try to tackle this game with rules that are easy to learn, but hard to explain, in about 8 minutes of audio.

SNAP Review – Get the MacGuffin

March 8, 2019 Updated: January 23rd, 2025 Anitra Smith Hall of Fame Reviews, SNAP Reviews

Get the MacGuffin from Looney Labs is a fast-playing game of player elimination. It’s silly and incredibly quick, even at the maximum of 11 players. Can we find the MacGuffin or were we disappointed?

SNAP Review – Bad Doctor: Chronic Chaos

March 1, 2019 Updated: November 13th, 2020 Corey Lagunowich SNAP Reviews

Bad Doctor from Mayday games gets our prescription for a fast and fun tile-laying game with easy-to-learn rules. The humor is slightly coarse, so you might want to stick with the recommended 10+ age.

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audio, cartoon, Corey, Ian, Kids, Mayday Games, medical, tile laying

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