Award Winning Games for Your Family
Usually, I don't get excited about gaming awards. One person's "gold" is another person's "copper", so to speak. But when you earn over 50 in a single year? Time to take notice!
Please Do NOT Pass the Doritos!
Everyone of us wants to keep our games in good condition, even if we do not use the moniker of a so-called “collector”. Here are some hints and tips on keeping your games in good condition while still playing them with your kids. Impossible you say? Read and see for yourself.
Teaching the Basics
What I consider to be game playing basics really has nothing to do with games. They are just a few basic life skills that happen to be applied to just about every game you come across. The two skills I will be referring to are those of process and community.
Candy Land Game Review
The classic game of Candy Land hardly even needs an explanation. Players choose a colored gingerbread man piece and move along a multi-colored path towards the game-winning objective of Candy Castle, where you find the lost king of Candy Land. Along the way, you might get to visit special locations like Gum Drop Mountain, and Candy Cane Forest, or you might get to meet special characters such as Princess Frostine and Gramma Nutt.
Have Games, Will Travel
A reader asks us about games on a plane. In the immortal words of Neville Flynn, after the swearing was dubbed over for television, "Enough is enough! I have had it with these monkey-fighting games on this Monday-to-Friday plane!" But then we took some Valium and answered the question.
Top 5 Reasons to Start a Family Game Night
Every family is busy, some much more than others. This is because families are comprised of individuals with lives of their own that sometimes, if you are lucky, intersect at the family dinner table or occasionally in the line to use the upstairs bathroom. A family game night is what you are missing, and need.