Games Overboard

Recently, like last week, American Mensa, that group for really really smart people, released their picks for this years, Mensa Select recipients.  These selections?  Mensa’s top five board games of 2010. Now it should be obvious that Mensa people like board games, they’re all just a bunch of geeks like the rest of us, and [...]

Not often do you find a game that is so universally loved by your gaming group and family that you actually wear copies of it out.  I found this game in Tichu.  I grew up as early as 8 years old playing Pinochle, so I have a long-time attraction towards trick-taking games.  I had read [...]

Rare doesn’t even begin to describe the recent purchase of the Nazi Luftwaffe game “The Eagle Defense Game” (or Adler Luftverteidigungs Spiel in the original German.)  As this is possibly the only remaining copy of the game, purchaser Alan Goldsmith has to consider himself a lucky man. The game, created by a Luftwaffe officer, challenges [...]

I loved playing with LEGOs® when I was a kid, and if I had the time, money, and space I’d still be playing with them today.  Well now I can combine my love of board games with my love of LEGOs®. LEGO has recently announced that it will now sell the board games they’ve built [...]

I recently got this email from one of our followers in the UK: Hey guys, I was just watching your review for “Dominion” and decided to come over to your website. I was wondering if you could help me out, I’m at University in Lancaster in the UK and I recently created a 2 player [...]