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Archive for November, 2008

16 Nov, 2008

Episode 008: Bananagrams

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Welcome to the first of our November food-related game posts. We’re celebrating a tradition of gorging ourselves and gluttony that Americans enjoy on Thanksgiving by reviewing games that have food as a theme
Our first game is Bananagrams. It’s a word game that takes only a few minutes to learn, has minimal set-up time [...]

04 Nov, 2008

Recent Reviews Done Elsewhere

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Brian sent this to me to post awhile ago, and well, I totally forgot.  Here are some of the reviews he’s done on games elsewhere on the web.

Merlin
Blokus
Tightrope
Fish
Nodwick

Read, and enjoy.

03 Nov, 2008

Play Diplomacy Online

Posted by: In: Online Games| Reviews

For our first review of an online game, I’d like to go over one I’ve been signed up with since it began its Beta testing period. The game, as the title most obviously states, is Diplomacy, and it is based off the board game of the same title (yeah, original, I know.)
The Diplomacy Board [...]

02 Nov, 2008

Episode 007: Say Anything!

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OK, people, we’re talking about the game here, not the movie with John Cusack, though that might be worth a review someday. Er, if we did movie reviews which really wouldn’t fit with the whole board game thing. That is, unless they started making movies about board games, but that might be really [...]


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