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Growing up, some of my favorite games were the fast-and-wild card games, like Speed, or my favorite of all time: Spoons (which Wikipedia just taught me has roots to the 1800s!). It's a timeless formula: take a simple game, ramp up the pace of play, and wait for
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In this house, we do almost as many puzzles as we play games. Usually they are jigsaw puzzles, but lately we've found a bunch of really fun dexterity puzzles. We also (shamefully) watch a lot of competition reality TV, and one puzzle we see over and over is
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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
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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
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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
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The world's fastest dice game. Seriously almost too fast. Race other players in a mad scramble with 10 dice per player.
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A game about dogs, dice, and pushing your luck. Battle other players to collect dice while risking your progress on every roll.
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How it works: A little bit Jenga, a little bit Operation, a lot of weird dexterity fun. The game starts by cramming a buncha colorful poofballs into a mold that produces a tall tower. Taking turns, players remove and re-stack the fuzzies onto the tower. It's a simple
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How it works: Imagine a gin or rummy game with no numbers, traditional suits, or face cards. Rule of Three is a fast paced strategy game for visual thinkers. Players compete to be the first to assemble three sets to score points. Fail the task and you lose points. Why
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How it works: A push-your-luck dice game in a portable tube with stellar design. We backed on Kickstarter, but the game should be available from Keymaster in Summer 2023. Why it's clever: When you "Count your chickens" and take your points, you pass a larger amount