Preparing Used Games for Auction, Trade or Sale
Two important things you should do to prepare your used games for auction, trade or sale.
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The author’s opinions or thoughts on a matter – usually pertaining to gaming.
Advent Christmas Gaming Challenge 2016
It’s so easy during the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping, decorating, and so forth to forget what it’s all for: spending precious time with our loved ones in celebration. To help get you more focused on love and laughter amidst all the chaos, try this Advent Christmas Gaming Challenge. Last year I participated in the Advent of Christmas Gaming […]
Read moreQwixx – Oops! Rules correction.
Oops! Turns out I’ve been teaching Qwixx wrong! During our TableTop Day celebration, I was playing and teaching Qwixx with Michael Litzinger and a few other folks, when Michael said that the active player could use the white dice, too. What? I thought the rules said your opponents could use the white dice if desired, but the active player must […]
Read more6 Games for Easter Baskets
Hear comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail. Hippity hop, hippity hop. Easter’s on its way! Yep, Easter’s just around the corner. So I thought I’d put together an Easter basket of games to help the spry Easter bunny prepare for his rounds. 1. Karottenklau (Carrot Pinching) It’s got a cute bunny and carrot tokens and it’s cooperative so […]
Read moreIt Takes Two: 7 Games We Love to Play as a Couple
Tim (my husband) and I have been playing games together since we met. It’s how we met, actually in February 1987. We’ve been together ever since: living proof that the couple who plays together stays together. With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put together a list of our favorite games to play together – just us two. Not […]
Read more24 Days of Gaming Stocking Stuffers – Part 3
Over the last two weeks in 24 Days of Gaming Stocking Stuffers – Part 1 & Part 2, I provided 16 short reviews of games and gaming accessories that would make great gaming stocking stuffers – or make a great play list for the holiday season. This week, I conclude the coverage with the final 8. Whether you use this as […]
Read more24 Days of Gaming Stocking Stuffers – Part 2
Last week in 24 Days of Gaming Stocking Stuffers – Part 1, I provided 8 short reviews of games and gaming accessories that would make great gaming stocking stuffers or make a great play list for the holiday season. This week, I continue the coverage with 8 more. However you utilize this list, I hope it will lead to lots of […]
Read more24 Days of Gaming Stocking Stuffers – Part 1
Games are a great way to relax, have fun, and interact with friends, family and even acquaintances. They also make great presents, hostess gifts and even stocking stuffers – if they’re small and inexpensive enough. To assist you in your search for the perfect gaming stocking stuffers as well simple games you can play with anyone during the holiday season, […]
Read moreAn Advent of Christmas Gaming
It’s so easy during the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping, decorating, and so forth to forget what’s it’s all for: spending precious time with our loved ones in celebration. I’ve never had an Advent calendar or anything like it, but when I ran across the Advent of Christmas Gaming Challenge on Board Game Geek I was immediately intrigued and […]
Read more6+ Games for Fun & Interactive Thanksgiving Gatherings & National Games Week
It’s no accident that National Games Week, an annual event invented by Mark Simmons (former publisher of Games Quarterly magazine) to promote forms of socially interactive games, falls on Thanksgiving week. What better time to gather with friends and family, have fun, and share some laughs over a game than after you’ve finished off the pumpkin pie? So, in keeping […]
Read more8 Zombie-Themed Games for Halloween
Every time we think zombies are dead, they rise back up and prove us wrong. Not only on television, where Fear the Walking Dead, the spin-off of the highly acclaimed television series The Walking Dead, debuted last month, but also in the board game arena. With The Walking Dead television show returning to our living rooms this weekend, I thought I’d take a […]
Read moreAtlanta Game Fest 25: Day 3
Day 3 of Atlanta Game Fest 25 saw me playing some old favorites that I usually only get to play at AGF, as well as, learning a few new games. Old: Expedition and Circus Flochati. New: La Isla, another new Stefan Feld title; Planes; and Pandemic: The Cure. I also got in a second play of Istanbul, this time teaching […]
Read moreAtlanta Game Fest 25: Day 2
I woke up feeling poorly on Friday, Day 2 of Atlanta Game Fest, so went back to bed and didn’t make it down to the game rooms until after 1 p.m. I only learned two new games on Day 2: Cubist and Istanbul – probably my favorite of the convention, though Alchemists is a close second. But I’m getting ahead of […]
Read moreAtlanta Game Fest 25: Day 1
I learned and played a lot of new games at Atlanta Game Fest 25. Day 1, Thursday, began with me teaching a few: Viticulture with a few of Tuscany: Tier 1 expansions, Sushi Go, and Abyss. Then the tables turned and I learned: Roll for the Galaxy, Red7, and Stefan Feld’s latest game, AquaSphere. Following are my first impressions. Roll for […]
Read moreAtlanta Game Fest 25: Day 0
So, Tim and I are attending Atlanta Game Fest (AGF). The 4-day weekend of almost 24-hour gaming doesn’t actually begin until Thursday. We arrived Wednesday evening. We got an invite to the Games Well Played Meetup. So after checking into our room, we headed over to a local Moe’s to check it out. It solved two dilemmas: what to eat […]
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