Tsuro is back with a fresh new look and more complexity, but the same fantastic Zen-like energy. Instead of traveling the path of life, you will be guiding your Phoenix along its path through the dark night sky. Each Phoneix races to be the first to reach the Lanterns scattered across the board to earn … Read more
You’ve read about the world’s great explorers: Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Henry Hudson, Amerigo Vespucci…they traveled to new and distant lands, they traded for supplies, they had adventures, and now you can too! Almanac: The Dragon Road is an adventure filled caravanning, traveling, trading, exploring board game with unique and beautifully designed elements. Players travel … Read more
CALLING ALL MONSTER SLAYERS, ORC WARRIORS, AND GOBLIN GETTERS!!! These ruffian creatures are hiding in the shadows of the forest surrounding the castle and it is YOUR JOB to gather your army and put up a defense. You will defeat the monsters together or be defeated together in a cooperative Panic to save the castle! … Read more
City Building is something we do on a daily basis at our house…blocks, dominoes, Legos, magnatiles, cushions and blankets… we are practiced builders, so a city building card game is right up our alley! Machi Koro is a really fun, very interactive, fast-paced, easy-to-learn game for 2-4 players, ages 10+, in 30 minutes. (My almost … Read more
As a native Oregonian, it took me a while to learn to appreciate desert beauty. The colors of this game were the first thing I came to love about the desert – the reds and oranges and the sunsets!!! The desert truly is a “place of vast beauty: technicolor sunsets, deep canyons, trickling tributaries, and … Read more
If you live in a cold-winter place, Blue Lagoon is the perfect game to bring back memories of sand and sunshine. It’s an area control/set collection game where players try to collect resources and spread their settlements and villages as far and wide as possible. Game components include settler discs and village huts in four … Read more
If you’re looking for a strategy game, this one has it all! Adventure, mysticism, companionship, herbs, swords, battles…this is s a great beginning strategy game for young board game players. It’s can also be fairly complex with three different Adventure Scenarios to satisfy even the most seasoned board gamer! Each scenario indicates how points are … Read more
We love exploration/tile placement games and Karuba has fun illustrations, great mechanisms, and is a really fun family game! Players set up the game by taking turns placing one explorer and one temple at least 3 spaces apart on the board. Explorers go along the beach (sandy edges) and temples go in the jungle (green … Read more
Mythology and fairy tales are a huge part of our homeschooling curriculum. I always have my kids reading from a book of myths or fairy tales – the stories and heroes of old are so classic and provide modern readers with background and context with which to understand and enjoy all stories more deeply. Good … Read more
Words games are a great gameschooling resource – in our homeschool, language arts consists of reading, narrating, copywork/handwriting. Beyond that I just try to make writing and words and vocabulary and language fun and relevant and interesting, and games are the best way I’ve found to do it. Codenames is a spy-themed clue-giving-word-guessing-game that is … Read more