SNAP Review – Robots Ate Our Pizza
Alien robots have come and challenged your group to a puzzle! Finish poorly, and they’ll eat all your pizza. Finish well, and… well, you’ll have some pizza left for yourselves to enjoy.
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Tumble Town – Dice Stacking on Main Street
There’s gold in the hills! In Tumble Town by Kevin Russ, you’re building a brand new town in the American West from the ground up. Can you impress the townspeople with your planning skills and be the best in the West?
» Read more254 – Honey, I Shrunk the Game – The Family Gamers Podcast
This week, we’re discussing games that have been sized down, either for portability or for a faster & simpler experience. Are these smaller games worth it?
» Read moreThe Game: Face To Face
To truly succeed in marriage and parenting you need to be inside your partner’s head as much as possible to support one another and be on the same page. But sometimes you can get into the head of your partner for your own benefit…
» Read moreSpace Explorers
Space Explorers does a great job capturing the feel of the golden age of space exploration in a straightforward set collection game. But don’t mistake straightforward for simple!
» Read moreQuatorze: Seven7s Plus Seven More
Quatorze seems like a short filler game, but it’s deeply strategic. It will probably take longer to learn it than to play it the first time.
» Read moreSNAP Review – Mass Transit
It’s rush hour! Can you build a network of busses, trains, and ferries to get every commuter home to the suburbs?
» Read moreMatch 5 – Find Links, Create Connections!
All players race to come up with words or short phrases that connect the ideas on each pair of dice. Try to come up with something for all ten possible combinations before time runs out.
» Read moreSNAP Review – Block Ness
Who can win control of the lake? Block Ness is a 3D area control game, and we review it in 5 minutes.
» Read moreTidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef
“It has been fifteen years since the Great Battle. Fifteen years since our esteemed Engineers from the Citadel of Time made their wrenching decision and created The Fold; fifteen years since the last assemblage – and ultimate sacrifice – of the Tidal Blades.”
» Read moreSNAP Review – Lucky Numbers
Place numbered clovers into a 4×4 grid. Can you make 4 rows and 4 columns where all numbers ascend?
» Read moreToy Story: Obstacles & Adventures
Toy Story: Obstacles & Adventures is a cooperative deck-building game. Take on the roles of iconic Toy Story characters and work together to overcome hazards. The game includes six different adventures that will have players jumping back into action faster than Woody can say, “There’s a snake in my boot!”
» Read moreMeeple Land: Build a Better Park
Design your Meeple Land theme park – full of fun rides and attractions for all kinds of meeples… Wait, where’s the bathroom?
» Read moreSNAP Review – Hedgehog Haberdash
The baby hedgehogs are playing dress up, but they don’t have spiky quills like mom and dad. How can they dress up and pretend to be adults? Maybe with this bag of pointy leaves?
» Read moreFruit Passion: Work Your Melon
Play fruit-themed cards one at a time into columns. But don’t peek at what you’ve played before! Test your memory with this simple but challenging card game.
» Read moreSNAP Review – King of 12
The two of us don’t usually love social deduction games, but having the die as the focus of the game gives a concrete goal. I want to get my die value high (or possibly low). Having that concrete goal made King of 12 a game we could really enjoy.
» Read moreThe Key: Sabotage at Lucky Llama Land
The Key feels a lot like a logic grid puzzle. As you work to gather your clues, you’ll feel that you’re getting closer and closer until you find the key piece of information that makes everything else snap into place. More complex than games like Outfoxed and Concluzio, this might be the next step if your family wants a more challenging deduction game.
» Read moreSNAP Review – Kombo Klash
My City – Marvelous Municipal Creation
A legacy game with rules that gently ramp up over time – and NO conflict! We think it’s perfect for families.
» Read moreJurassic Parts – Excavation Excitement!
Once I started placing chisels, I was sucked in. If I could just get one more chisel over there, I’d split off a big enough chunk and get the fossils I wanted! Maybe I could add just a single chisel to someone else’s line – a tiny investment for a big payoff. What’s underneath that face-down tile, anyway?
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