GAME REVIEWS

This little card game takes only a couple of minutes to teach, but is surprisingly engaging and full of fun.

Fun Is No Mystery with: Scorpion masqué

Scorpion Masqué is a Montreal-based board game publisher founded in 2006 by former literature teacher and game enthusiast Christian Lemay

PAGE TURNERS: Games Unfurl Their Majestic Pages

Have you picked up a good book lately? Perhaps you've struggled to find inspirational reading material

Josh Cappel: A Man of Many Hats

The name Josh Cappel is synonymous with variety. If you have a shelf of board games, it's likely that at least one of them has been touched by Cappel

PLAY FUNKOVERSE LIKE A PRO

Have you ever heard about the Funkoverse board game series? If not, then you are in for a real treat

PASSPORT TO FUN: This Summer's Sizzling New Casual Games

From a quaint festival in Portugal to impending doom in ancient China, or from the peaceful tranquility of a Japanese garden to the tarmac of the Montréal airport, the new casual board games of the summer of 2023 read like a captivating travel brochure

Scram! CRITTERS VS. CAMPERS

One team faces another in Bezier Games' latest card-shedding gam

Hand-to-Hand Wombat is Major Fun!

The Concept - No one knows why wombats enjoy architecture. A desire to build towers is buried deep in their bones. But there are exceptions: wicked wombats, born to make trouble.

A Part-Time Venture Creating Full-Time Fun

hawn Stankewich, along with co-founders Robb Melvin and Molly Johnson, started Seattle-based Flatout Games in 2017. Robb and Shawn lived in the same dorm in college and developed a friendship through playing board games. Molly was already into games when she met Shawn and Robb in 2013. After four years of friendship and playing games, they decided to design their own.

THE KULTURE OF GAMES:

How Board Games Continue to Reflect Growing & Emergent Communities

Project Not All Puzzles Are Created Equal

When sitting down to learn Project L, it may not seem to be a tabletop game at all, but rather the classic video game Tetris. After all, square-shaped board puzzles are acquired and players must fit various polyomino pieces into the recessed spaces of the puzzles.

Back to Nature:

The Spring of Environmental Themes in Board Gaming

THE LAST KINGDOM BOARD GAME

A HISTORIC TALE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS

The Root Beer Float Challenge is Major Fun!

You have come together to crown a new champion by assembling that most tasty treat, the root beer float! The ice cream, soda, straws, and cherries are laid out and ready.

BAG OF CHIPS

Carefully choose which objectives to complete in this tasty game of collecting chips.

THE HAUNTED MANSION.. CALL OF THE SPIRITS

Venture into a haunted mansion full of ghosts, ghouls, and spooks! If you dare...

THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW GAME

Bakers: ready your decks, prepare the ingredients, and get baking!

DANDELIONS

Float on the wind, spread your dandelion seeds, and flower across the gardens in this elegantly simple mixture of area control and dice.

CAT IN THE BOX

A fascinating twist on a well-known and well-loved genre, Cat in the Box brings a new dimension to trick-taking.

TIC-TAC-TOE EVOLVED: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOUR CORNERS

Inspiration can strike in the unlikeliest of places. was sitting at an airport gate, waiting for my plane,” begins Ray Wehrs, and was mesmerized watching these kids next to me play games of Tic-Tac-Toe over and over again.” Wehrs watched as they stalemated numerous times and set right back up to do it again. In that moment, started thinking about how could make the game better.”

Essen SPIEL 2022: A Sparkle of Hope for Board Gaming

The last time I had the chance to attend Essen SPIEL, my son was just five weeks old, not exactly of the age where he could voice his opinion on the latest or greatest casual game.

Kabuto Sumo is Major Fun!

If you listen closely, you can hear it...KLONK!

2022 NW LUGI GAME AWARDS RETURN!

After a two-year hiatus, the LUCI Award contest has made a return for its fifth year!

DON'T DROP THAT TILE!

Playing the Long Game in...

GEN CON DRIVES 55

THE CONVENTION USES THE BYPASS TO RETURN TO GLORY