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In line with Mark and Olivia’s reviews of their favorite expansions to Carcassonne, I figured I’d put my two cents in for my favorite.  I love The Princess and the Dragon.  Besides using The River, it’s the expansion that I am most likely to add to the base game.  I guess it’s the competitive nature [...]

27 Apr, 2009

The Making Of A Game Review

Posted by: In: Game Life| Reviews

So you want to know the process we go through to do a game review.  Maybe you’re thinking of doing a review for us, and want to know what all in involved.  Well, let me tell you, it’s not all fun and games.
Ok, it is mostly fun and games, but there is a lot of [...]

24 Apr, 2009

A Girl’s Gab on Games

Posted by: In: Game Life| Players

Brian has asked me to write about board games from a woman’s perspective and other aspects relating to board games in general.
Growing up I never played many board games besides Monopoly, Candyland, PayDay and Loopin’ Louie.  It wasn’t until I met Brian 4 years ago that I was really introduced to the world of board [...]

22 Apr, 2009

Resolute

Posted by: In: Players| Reviews

When the new year was approaching and I looked in my closet I saw that I had over 120 games.  Holy crap!  that’s a lot, and the problem was I hadn’t played a lot of them in a long time.
I’m actually pretty good about keeping my collection filtered.  I look at the piles on the [...]

16 Nov, 2008

Episode 008: Bananagrams

Posted by: In: Reviews| Videos

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 [...]


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