Raccoon Robbers
In Raccoon Robbers, players control a band of raccoons who scale buildings and leap from great heights to score movement points for their boss raccoon.
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SNAP 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 moreDale Of Merchants Collection
Dale of Merchants is my favorite deck-building game. Play cards to gain effects, or group them in sets to create your “merchant stalls” to win the game!
» Read moreCover Your Kingdom: The Family Gamers’ O-pun-ion
Conspire to acquire punderful creatures in this take-that set collection game. Best at 6-8 players, you’ll be showing cards to fellow players, marveling at how so many puns can be crammed into such a small box.
» Read more154 – Player Interaction – The Family Gamers Podcast
We talk about player interaction this week. What games will encourage your family to really connect or collaborate? Andrew (and Anitra) also try Mexican hawthorne pulp, “for science!”
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RobotLab: S.T.E.A.M. That Won’t Short-Circuit
“In RobotLab, you’re a scientist racing to build your robot and win the coveted Devol Prize in Robotics! Along the way you’ll need to do some research, dig through the trash, deal with some faulty parts, and do your best to avoid the other scientists trying to stop you. Will you become the first to successfully complete your robot?” RobotLab
» Read moreSNAP Review – 10 Essentials
A simple take-that game, 10 Essentials aims to to introduce kids to the standard “ten essential items” for backcountry hiking. Remedy dangers like dehydration or snow while playing similar dangers on the other players! What did Asher and Anitra think of this game? Listen to their review in 6 minutes, or read on below. 10 Essentials was designed by John
» Read more112 – Popular (Board Game) Mechanics – The Family Gamers Podcast
Is resource management more than a business term? Do you take that? Or would you rather use worker placement to gain area control? We dissect some common terms from the board game world, and give examples of games that use these mechanics.
» Read moreTrash Pandas: Hot Garbage or Good Garbage?
Trash Pandas is a press-your-luck, dice-rolling game designed by Michael Esuke of Red Rook Games. Players become raccoons digging through trash.
» Read moreRobo Diner: Order Up!
Robot waiters gather food and bring it to customers. But can you deliver the food combinations your customers need?
» Read moreFlip City: Urban Planning Upside Down
As a city planner, you naturally want to make the most beautiful and crowd-pleasing city. But watch out! Other players may offload their problems to your beautiful city, even as you upgrade your buildings to become more useful. Will you flip for Flip City, or is it more of a flop?
» Read moreSuper Hack Override: Proxy Swap Your Way to Supreme Victory!
“There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think… it’s all about the information!” – Sneakers, 1992 For some of us, it’s quotes like these that are about as close to hacking as
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