Time for a weird analogy. Imagine a decently sized gold egg firmly ensnared within a thick matted heap of a rat nest. Glistering gold beams pierce the surface, taunting, begging for freedom. It’s in there. Right there. Just waiting to be untangled. Except, after hours upon hours of meticulous
In 1982, Steven Spielberg gave us a family adventure movie about a small alien creature who gets stranded on Earth. After being found by and befriending a young boy, the alien does his best to communicate with his family back home while avoiding being caught by the government agents out
As the years go on and my board game collection balloons, I am forced to refine my criteria for picking up a game, along with continuous culling, to keep my collection at a reasonable size. How much fun I find myself having with any particular game is an obviously important
If you’re reading this, I feel comfortable assuming that you’ve played the introductory route-building game Ticket to Ride. It’s certainly fun enough that I don’t hate playing it with friends and family that are newer to the hobby, but I don’t think anyone would argue
I absolutely love chaos. An ability to consistently draw blood has always been a good indication I would love a game, and boy does this little box have some fangs. Welcome to Gimme That! 3-8 players are given a sheet with ten rows of ten potatoes, and tasked with the
Masters of magic, gather here, claim your runes, and summon forth powers beyond imagination!
Rune, by Zemilio, is a 2-3 player area control card game. Players take turns placing cards with 6 runes on them, and must place them on the table over existing rune cards following some very strict
In the middle of Frontierland at Disneyland lies the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad – the wildest ride in the wilderness! Full of crazy drops and turns, riders are whipped around the mountain on a mountain train through tunnels, past mining equipment, and a goat chewing on dynamite. I recently got a
As players of Cthulhu Wars can tell you, a strong table presence can make even a lightweight game hit like a truck. The game by itself is certainly fun, but when every action involves moving a pound of plastic around a map the size of your whole table, you instinctively
