My extended family has been playing Ticket to Ride for years. It’s one of our go-to games after Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner, and we’ve all gotten comfortable with the mechanics, the strategy, and the map. We’ve mixed it up a[…]
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Tag: Board Games
Family Games Invade the Geek Tree
Santa’s come and gone, leaving behind a small armada of games for us to try out: Zombie Dice (and Zombie Dice 2) and the Mars Attacks Dice Game, both by Steve Jackson Games, and Star Fluxx by Loony Labs.
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Game Day: Improving Arkham Horror
Arkham Horror has long been one of the go-to board games for my gaming group. It’s popularity has waxed and waned, usually seeing resurgences when new people join the group and the experience Fantasy Flight’s epic game of eldritch horror and fiddly bits for the first time.
Read moreSearching for Kid-friendly Board Games
Winter is coming. In my house, that means long weekends trapped inside with increasingly crazy, argumentative kids enraged by too many hours fighting over the rules to Uno, Life, and Monopoly. It’s the sort of thing that inspired Cracked’s “Six[…]
Read moreRadio Active #46: Notebooks vs. Desktops, Out of Darkness, Horror Betrayals
Things take a horror tinged turned in this week’s podcast with reviews of Midnight Syndicate’s retrospective horror music album Out of Darkness and the horror-movie inspired board game Betrayal at House on the Hill by Avalon Hill. Elsewhere in the[…]
Read moreGame Day: Risk 2210
Game Day may be cancelled due to snow — freaking Pennsylvania spring weather — but that doesn’t mean we can’t still dream of what might have been. Tonight’s game was/is supposed to be Risk 2210 (check it out on Amazon)[…]
Read moreFirst Impressions of Risk: Godstorm
A few years ago, I reviewed (Internet Archive) Avalon Hill’s then-new Risk 2210 board game (Internet Archive) for SCI-FI. Our gaming group loved it how the game took the game’s core mechanic, added a great deal of complexity and strategy to it,[…]
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