Games Overboard

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 [...]

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 and [...]

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 boring. I [...]

This time Tim and Brian go over the mental teaser Thingamajig.  A game where you try to let some of your friends know what you’re thinking, while you lie to the rest.

TJ is back and he and Brian go over the geometry game Blokus.  If you’re into Tetris you might enjoy Blokus, though I have to admit the fact that you connect to the corners rather than the sides of the pieces leads to some initial confusion.  Quickly, however, you can learn to really annoy the [...]