Greetings Sir/Madam Mayor of the most perfect, happiest-ever city! This is your character in Happy City, a city-building card game for 2-5 players, ages 10+, in about 30 minutes of strategic, productive competitive fun where the goal is to grow your city to ten building types of your choice. Players each begin their city with … Read more
Journey into the Wizarding World for another intense strategy adventure between the heroes and villains of Hogwarts! Talisman is one of our favorite board game experiences (Talisman: Kingdom Hearts is just as fantastic!). It’s challenging, full of twists and turns, and the outcome is always up in the air! Only the cleverest heroes will outwit … Read more
Have you ever thought about what kind of world you would create if you got the chance??? Oh, the possibilities… You’d have to have some kind of food chain though, right?!? Would life on your planet be perpetuated through a similar dance between small organisms and large ones? THIS is the delicate balance players are … Read more
In another engaging, theatrical, and fantastical setting, HABA brings us MEDURIS, a strategy game for 2-4 players ages 10+, for a quest to settle in the base of Mount Meduris by building huts and, most importantly, making offerings to the mystical druid who travels about the foothills. Players compete to collect precious rune stones and … Read more
A board game with a Fantasy theme is extra special around here in my family of fantasy lovers. Iquazu, a HABA creation for 2-4 players ages 10+, tells the story of two warring tribes. The Rhujas, a threatening group of warriors are seeking the hidden gemstones of the Inox tribe. To preserve their treasure, the … Read more
Dexterity games are great for motor skills but are also a great way for kids to spend time with older family members like grandparents! Not all grandparents want to learn a new strategy game, but they’re almost always up for something like Crazy Tower. Crazy Tower is a dexterity/building game with a crazy … Read more
One of the reasons we use so many games for math instruction is that games often require deductive and inductive reasoning, or thinking forwards and backwards about a problem. Some games, like Wilson & SHEP, feature these deductive reasoning skills but at the level of younger children. Six years old, in this case! Games … Read more
Many moms I’ve talked to are resistant to the idea of gameschooling because they don’t like to play games. Or so they think… Today’s games are not like the games of our childhood. They’re clever, beautifully designed, and companies like Blue Orange have taken classic games like memory and spruced them up a bit … Read more
Board game art has come a long long way from the games of my childhood, and Shifting Stones, a new game from Gamewright Games, incorporates lots of really fun art elements that I find so appealing! I see whispers of Scandinavian and other folk art in these beautifully designed tiles, which just adds another layer of … Read more
Lots of kids want a pet and they all PROMISE they’ll be the one to look after it. Before taking the plunge, maybe try out this game where players MUST care for Honga, a very needy saber-toothed tiger. Maybe the experience of making sure he’s attended to will make kids think twice about wanting a … Read more