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A little list of clever games, updated twice monthly. More coming soon!
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Zoomates
It might look like a simple wooden puzzle, but Zoomates was one of the original games on my list when I started this blog, it's that clever. It's also the second time we've featured Gladden Design, the first being Paper Apps: Dungeon. How it
Jack Be Thimble
Our family likes to party. Sometimes we need a game to kick things off or break the ice, and sometimes we need a game to keep us goofing late into the night. A new favorite in both categories is Jack Be Thimble, a dead simple game that will have even
How we turned our home office into a real Blockbuster Video store, using a spreadsheet, ChatGPT, and Figma
I'm getting old. Well, at least I'm 40, which seems... old enough. One of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite movies, The Wedding Singer, is a throwaway line from a radio caller in the background of the kitchen, saying "I like Old Coke
Strike
While I didn't get many growing up, my wife's family plays a lot of dice games. Not because dice games offer a depth of gameplay, but because they get the family around the table yelling and swapping nickels. Strike is a dead-simple game that makes a