The first time I heard of Fluxx was through my ex who pulled out Zombie Fluxx and taught me how to play. She beat me at every single game I played with her, bar maybe one or two, but I immediately fell in love with the game.
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Board Game Review | Kingdomino
GenCon 2017, Photosynthesis by Blue Orange Games was one of the big sellers which, in turn made Kingdomino, published in 2016, one of the big sellers, too. The company gave out $10 promo copies and developer Bruno Cathala stood at the booth, prepared to answer questions and sign copies of the game.
Read More »Board Game Review | Dragonwood
If I could calculate the hours played for all of our games combined, the sum would not come close to the number of hours my children and I have spent playing Dragonwood. Six dice and 106 cards of pure joy in a tiny box, Dragonwood completely captured my children’s attention and adoration right from the first time they played.
Read More »Horrified: A Review with a Village Full of Monsters
By Ainy Rainwater
My favorite monster when I was a kid was The Creature From the Black Lagoon. We lived a few houses down from a large drainage gully and not all that far from the Texas Gulf Coast, so an aquatic monster creeping across the backyard at twilight was a lot more plausible than, say, some monster from a lightning-struck castle, Transylvania, or pyramids. I’ve never lost my love of classic monster movies, and my husband loves them too, so when I saw a board game based on all those monsters I had to get it. It’s been less than two years since I started getting back into board games as an adult and the pandemic and consequent lockdown put an end to the 4-6 player weekend board games with the extended family, so I started looking for games my husband and I could play together. If it could play well with the whole family in the post-pandemic era, all the better.
Read More »Board Game Review | Detective
My gaming group is pretty mixed in our skill set and often includes children. Therefore, cooperative games get to the table often. On a whim several months ago, we pulled out the board game Detective. Although we had played Sherlock several times, we were never very successful. Sherlock just has far more skills than our party does, and we often wound up frustrated that, although we solved the case, it was more trial and error than actual skill. However, we liked the case-solving aspect and hoped that Detective would prove more our speed.
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