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Tag: Board Games

Blogworthy: Star Wars Backgrounds, COVID-19 Ruminations, Games for Quarantine, Pandemic Brain Fog

May 2, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Blogworthy, Games

Join Meetings From A Galaxy Far, Far Away With These Star Wars Backgrounds – Zoom meetings are exhausting and boring. Make them a little more interesting by throwing Cloud City, and X-Wings, and Death Star ruins into your background. David[…]

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Multi-colored train pieces represent different routes that have been completed on the Ticket to Ride map.

Ticket to Ride: Europe

February 12, 2017 Ken Newquist Board Game Reviews, Game Reviews, Games

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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Cover art for Zombie Dice, Star Fluxx, and Mars Attacks.

Family Games Invade the Geek Tree

December 25, 2014 Ken Newquist Blog, Games, Geek Dad

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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Red tentacles threaten a speeding car; two investigators shoot guns at the creature from the car's passenger side.

Game Day: Improving Arkham Horror

February 9, 2014 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games

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.

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Searching for Kid-friendly Board Games

November 26, 2013 Ken Newquist Blog, Games, Geek Dad

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[…]

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Radio Active #46: Notebooks vs. Desktops, Out of Darkness, Horror Betrayals

March 20, 2007 Ken Newquist Nuketown Radio Active, Podcasts

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[…]

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Game Day: Risk 2210

March 16, 2007 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Game Day, Games

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)[…]

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First Impressions of Risk: Godstorm

August 7, 2004 Ken Newquist First Impressions, Games

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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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

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