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THE CREW Quest for Planet Nine Cooperative Game

Attention astronauts! Can you and your team complete 50 missions to discover whether or not the suspected ninth planet actually exists? Can you work as a team? Can you master challenges, communicate effectively, and achieve your mission??? The Crew is a trick taking game, played cooperative by 3-5 players ages 10+. The game has a […]

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FORBIDDEN SKY Electrical Circuitry Cooperative Game

Board Games

Cooperative games are great for kids, and this one is the most recent in the very popular FORBIDDEN GAMES series by Gamewright. There’s a lot going on, some really cool electrical components, weather challenges and lots of collaboration, teamwork, and fun! The premise of the game is this: Your team is landing on a top […]

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METRO X Rail & Write Game

Card Games

Riding the subway/metro/tube is a real-life strategy game for beginners and country folks, but Metro X is a “Rail & Write” game with a subway theme that is way less stressful and just as fun! (I love traveling to big cities and riding the subway, but it takes some focus! We always have at least […]

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TIKI TOPPLE Tactical Totem Game

Board Games

A tiki is a carved statue in the form of an exaggerated human face that is significant in ancient Polynesian cultures for its supernatural power over evil. Tikis were believed to give people protection, strength, power, and productive crops. The tikis in this game aren’t authentic replicas, they are stylized to show the beautiful variety […]

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DRAGON MARKET Treasure Hunting in the Bay Puzzle Game

Board Games

Ocean/water themes games are always so eye-catching, don’t you think?? The vibrant blue of the water board is just stunning and so appealing, making this game one we pull out regularly to visit a tropical and exotic location in our imaginations! Dragon Market has a great theme – it’s the royal wedding day and […]

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BELLFAIRE Everdell Founding Celebration Resource Management Board/Card Game

Board Games

The King and Queen invite YOU to celebrate The Bellfaire! The busy lives of the Everdellian Critters carry on, and this expansion tells another spellbinding story of a year-long celebration to commemorate the Everdell Founding’s 100th birthday! This lovely expansion adds to the growing family of Everdell games. Read my reviews about the original Everdell […]

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PLANETARIUM Planet Building Strategy Board Game

Board Games

Have you ever wanted to create your own planet? Manipulate matter?? Gather and move elements with gravity??? Planetarium is a interstellar battle between players to best guide the formation of a new planetary system. Players earn points throughout the game for creating/evolving planets, but must be focused on the end game, the final state of […]

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PEARLBROOK Everdell Underwater City Expansion

Board Games

If you haven’t experienced the magic of Everdell, you are missing out! The base Everdell game is an amazing storytelling masterpiece that creates a mythical world of industrious and friendly forest folk. The artwork and design is incredible, gameplay is perfectly complex, and each experience is unique and challenging. Everdell has all the elements of […]

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PICTOMANIA Drawing/Word Game

Card Games

Teaching my kids how to draw (or at least giving them opportunities to learn and practice) is VERY important to me, probably because I did not learn to draw as a kid and I thought I just couldn’t do it. As an adult, I have lamented this lack of skill, and so I am going […]

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SHIP SHAPE 3D Spatial Reasoning/Strategy Pirate Game

Board Games

Has some part of you always wanted to be a smuggling pirate?? I have! The danger, the romance, the adventure…it seems intriguing! But dangerous…and dirty…and probably not really much fun at all. An imaginary plundering expedition is much better. Ship Shape is just that, a game where players get to be plundering pirates who are […]

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