The Father Geek Spotlight is an ongoing feature that focuses on ordinary people doing an extraordinary job of living the geek life and loving it. This spotlight features Josh Trumbo: Father, Geek, and Musician Par Excellence. Continue reading
Sometimes a game can have a really brilliant concept or novel component but also have some flaw in its design that makes it about half as fun as it could be. That’s the case with Balloon Lagoon. Continue reading
It’s a classic game … no, not Monopoly … where intrepid adventurers seek treasure, and danger lurks at every corner … okay, there’s no danger, really, it’s more of a scavenger hunt. Continue reading
A weightier card game for adults and more experienced gamer children. Continue reading
To the uninitiated, this is what springs to mind when you mention children’s boardgames. To the gaming aficionado, this is the type of game we try to forget. Continue reading
Reverse Charades does an outstanding job of keeping everyone entertained and engaged. I’ve played Charades before and enjoyed it, but Reverse Charades provides an entirely different and more enjoyable experience. Continue reading
Lucky Ducks is a simple game for your younger little geeks that does a good job of incorporating pattern matching in the form of shapes and colors. Plus, it quacks! Continue reading
A reader poses a problem twice as challenging as any of our previous questions. Continue reading
You’d think it’d be easy to remember the colors of each of the six frogs, but the simple fact that they move from rock to rock makes it wonderfully challenging. Continue reading
Before launching into this season of Christmas parties, white elephant gifts, and too many sweets, let us not forget that Thanksgiving is an opportunity for us to step back from the breakneck pace of life, take a breather, and reflect on what is of real importance. Continue reading
We all walk this edge between wanting to enjoy our games and wanting to keep them pristine. This edge, which is a very fine line, is different for each of us and I submit that this edge is set based on our personality. Continue reading
My boys and I love this game. Sliding the game pawns down the alley and having them smack the others is a very satisfying. But there is so much more to this game then simply sliding a pawn. So much more. Continue reading
