SNAP Review – Hedgehog Haberdash
The baby hedgehogs are playing dress up, but they don’t have spiky quills like mom and dad. How can they dress up and pretend to be adults? Maybe with this bag of pointy leaves?
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Fruit Passion: Work Your Melon
Play fruit-themed cards one at a time into columns. But don’t peek at what you’ve played before! Test your memory with this simple but challenging card game.
» Read moreSNAP Review – King of 12
The two of us don’t usually love social deduction games, but having the die as the focus of the game gives a concrete goal. I want to get my die value high (or possibly low). Having that concrete goal made King of 12 a game we could really enjoy.
» Read moreThe Key: Sabotage at Lucky Llama Land
The Key feels a lot like a logic grid puzzle. As you work to gather your clues, you’ll feel that you’re getting closer and closer until you find the key piece of information that makes everything else snap into place. More complex than games like Outfoxed and Concluzio, this might be the next step if your family wants a more challenging deduction game.
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My City – Marvelous Municipal Creation
A legacy game with rules that gently ramp up over time – and NO conflict! We think it’s perfect for families.
» Read moreJurassic Parts – Excavation Excitement!
Once I started placing chisels, I was sucked in. If I could just get one more chisel over there, I’d split off a big enough chunk and get the fossils I wanted! Maybe I could add just a single chisel to someone else’s line – a tiny investment for a big payoff. What’s underneath that face-down tile, anyway?
» Read moreOrbital Velocity – Sending Satellites to the Skies
In Orbital Velocity, two teams compete to get their satellites into orbit. For the purposes of the game, each orbit can only hold a single satellite, so the first team to each orbit wins the round.
» Read moreStop Thief! – A Game Night Steal
This game is just elegantly smooth in how it plays. Simple mechanics, easy to learn, and so much fun to deduce where the thief is.
» Read moreSNAP Review – Cat Tower
What do you say about a game when the entire box is covered with super adorable cat art, and even unfolds to become a cat?
» Read moreVia Magica – Powering Patterned Portals
Incantatum! Open magical portals through the power of crystallized Animus spirits. A bingo-powered game for up to 6 players, perfect for families of all ages.
» Read moreSNAP Review – Decktective: Bloody Red Roses
Decktective is a mystery presented as a deck of cards with a full case for 1-6 detectives to solve.
» Read moreBoomerang – Draft Your Way Through Australia
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”!
» Read moreSNAP Review – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Roll dice and grab chickens from the coop to put in your bag. Cook the chickens for more points while stealing chickens from your fellow crafty foxes. Can you win the best chicken dinner?
» Read moreUnmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Darkness falls in Sunnydale. Vampires and demons rise from the shadows, but they’re not the only ones. When Buffy is pitted against her allies, who will win?
» Read moreDream Runners – Savoring Serene Sopor
In Dream Runners, your goal is to banish nightmares and maintain your serenity so you can acquire dream points and get out of the dream world as fast as you can!
» Read moreSNAP Review – Cloaked Cats
Be sneaky and hide your identity while guessing about your fellow cats in this deduction game for 2-4 players.
» Read moreMeduris: Mystical Magical Mountain
“Meduris isn’t complicated, but it definitely requires planning at a level I haven’t seen in HABA games before. It also punishes players for failing to plan correctly, another distinctly un-HABA like trait. Nonetheless, it’s still a great game with many layers of strategy that we’re still unlocking multiple plays in.”
» Read more230 – Intensive Gaming Getaway – The Family Gamers Podcast
Your hosts Andrew and Anitra went away for 48 hours. We filled those hours with a giant stack of games, and we’ll tell you about them.
» Read moreYarrr Har Hunt: X Marks the Co-op Spot
Friendly pirates cooperate, following clues to get the treasure. Collect as many treasures as there are pirates before the boat comes to the shore and pick them all up!
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