I hope everyone had a happy and safe Labor day weekend, I sure needed the extra day off.
Something new here for you this week…a lot of people have tried the eBay and Craigslist routes for buying and selling things, but there is a new kid on the block that calls himself Yardsellr. What’s better, Yardsellr [...]

Good morning everyone, please say hello to my good friend Professor Farkling. He’ll be taking the reins for me on this lovely Monday morning while I am engaged with other pressing matters. I hope to be back with some free time to update some more later this week, but until then, please enjoy!
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Hamlet! A game in five acts
Interactivities Ink – Mike Young
3-8 Players
Ages 12+
45+ Minutes
Overview
Imagine for a moment if William Shakespeare never existed, and during what would have been his time, most things were written as they are today, by a team of disagreeable writers working against each other as much as possible. Each one knows how [...]

Foresight Games
Ages 12+
~30 Mins
2-6 Players
Overview
Quick Six is a fast-paced dice game where, at it’s core, the objective is to roll 6 of a kind (while saving matching dice) in as few rolls as possible. Unlike most other Dice games, like Yahtzee, Quick Six is played with eight-sided dice, which adds to the [...]

Dragonkitty found this today on the interwebs. See if you can name all 100 games represented by these cupcakes, some of them are very easy, others are extremely abstract (seriously, if you guess the “Risk” one right away, you win.)
I got all but 14 of them. I had the most trouble with some the older [...]

I was introduced last week to a fantastic stand-alone card game called Dominion. It is a game for 2-4 players, and there is an expansion available which allows you to accommodate up to 8.
This is one of those Minute-to-learn-Lifetime-to-master games in that the rules are really quite simple. There are stacks of cards in front [...]

Sorry for the late post, I was out late last night playing Bingo (long story). But I will make up for it with something that is actually useful! As many of you know already, I design boardgames in my free time. One day, I hope to be a professional designer, but as a hobby it [...]

Since I am going to be out of town all next week, you all get a special double-post today!
This one is about something I just saw in the store right now while I was buying Gears of War 2 for my friend’s birthday.
It’s Donkey Kong! It’’s Jenga! It’s awesome! It’s HERE
Donkey Kong Jenga combines the [...]

This is something fun that I’ve had in my favorites for a few months; a FREE MMO strategy board game. It’s very simple, and I think that is where its beauty lies.
You are presented a massive grid, many squares are occupied and will have colors (or custom images) in them, others will be blank. When [...]

Today’s post comes from the land of the boardgame; a place where such legends as Monopoly and Risk had to begin…the design phase.
Nobody just wakes up in the morning and creates a board game and sells it to some company to make millions. It takes time, patience, testing, redesign, and careful study. But most importantly, [...]