Rob Daviau and Isaac Childress are two giants in the board gaming community, and in some ways they couldn’t be more different. Rob Daviau started at Hasbro in 1998 as a writer for Trivial Pursuit and Taboo. He has had his hand in designing games like Star Wars: The
I’m not a fan of social deduction games. It might partially be due to the fact that when I first started playing them I was eliminated almost right away, which made for a boring experience. That and the fact that they seem similar to me. While some updates have
What if I told you that I had a game where everyone played as clerics, and the object of the game was to heal warriors who had just come from battle. That sounds pretty cool, right? What if I said that you had your own temple with only two spots,
The idea of life and consciousness has fascinated scientific minds for many years. It also has been taken up by science fiction and horror writers. Star Trek: The Next Generation would never have grappled with this in “The Measure of a Man.” Without these thoughts we might never have had
We expect our electronics to work properly. However, there seems to be times when those electronics seem to be finicky and act like they have a mind of their own. That’s the premise of Quirky Circuits, a new storybook adventure from Plaid Hat Games.
Quirky Circuits starts out with
Decrypto has become an alternative to Codenames. In Decrypto, two teams sit on the opposite side of a table. A sequence of words is shown in four windows. One player takes a code card that has three numbers on it. That player gives clues to get the rest of their
The original Die Hard is the quintessential action movie where one man goes against insurmountable odds to free the woman he loves from a band of thieves. The success of the movie brought about sequels and even more inconceivable heists. However, other than Die Hard Arcade, there haven’t been
Usually when talking uniqueness in the board game arena, a new mechanic or combination of mechanics is mentioned. However, sometimes a new perspective may be needed. Cranio Creations is changing how you view a board with Mystery House.
Mystery House is a cooperative escape room style game that plays one
