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EVERDELL Enchanted Forest Fantasy City Building Game

“From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a peaceful year have passed in Everdell — but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities to be established. You will be the leader of a group of critters intent on just such a task. There are buildings to construct, lively characters to meet, […]

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BATTLE SHEEP Math Logic Game

Board Games

We cannot get enough of quick logic games. My boys love the strategizing, blocking opponents, and playing with each other and their friends, and Battle Sheep almost always gets pulled out first when we have friends over to play! It’s a quick game and takes about 20 minutes to play, start to finish. Two to […]

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DINOSAUR ISLAND Strategy Board Game

Board Games

This is clearly a game for our dinosaur loving friends! If you’re not a huge dinosaur fan, that’s ok, you’ll still love this game! Dinosaur Island is an amusement park themed (think Jurassic Park) strategy game for players 8+. Learning a new game always feels a little daunting and sometimes games can feel more complicated […]

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KINGDOMINO EXPANSION: AGE OF GIANTS Math Game

Board Games

A few years ago, all we had in our game closet were the old classics – Chutes and Ladders, Candyland, those games that kids enjoy but parents hate! Kingdomino was one of the first games we got once I realized there was so much more to the game world! We loved it then and we […]

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RUSH HOUR Thinkfun Single Player Logic Game

Board Games

If you’re on the hunt for some Christmas gift ideas, look no further than Ravensburger games available at Target! These three games span an entire family’s worth of ages from Strike for kids as young as 3 or 4, to Rush Hour for the middle aged kids (8-12 at least), and Marvel Villainous for teenagers. […]

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STRIKE Ravensburger Dice Game

Dice

Dice games are so much fun to play with kids, grandparents, anyone really. They’re easy to learn, not too intense or strategic, quick, and so much fun! Strike Dice can be played by up to 5 players with kids as young as 3. As long as they can take turns and count dots, even preschool […]

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TINY TOWNS City Building Family Game

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Kids are builders. It’s just in their busy, curious blood, and I think this is why they love games like Tiny Towns, a game for 1-6 players ages 10+ (box says 14 but I play with my kids ages 6-13 just fine) in about 45 minutes. The goal of Tiny Towns is to build a […]

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STONE AGE Worker Placement/Strategy/Math Game

Board Games

Playing games to go along with our history rotation has been so much fun. A game makes a unit fun and memorable, and if it’s the only thing they remember?? That’s just fine with me. Childhood is made up of the intentional passage of time. We don’t remember much from our childhoods but general feelings […]

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MEEPLE LAND Tile Placement Family Board Game

Board Games

I have a house full of boy who love to build things, and what could possibly be more fun than building your own amusement park?!? This new Blue Orange game called Meeple Land challenges players to create an amusement park with a variety of rides and all the convenient services little Meeple People would want […]

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SAGRADA Family Dice Game

Dice

My husband and I used to play games with other couples all the time before we had kids but haven’t in so so many years until this year! 2020 hasn’t been all bad…for us, it has been The Year of the Games, and we have loved trying and playing new games this whole year. I’ve […]

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