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Game review 65: Ker-Plunk
Pick sticks, avoid marbles. Sound about right?
5 hrs ago
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Andrew Brassleay
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Game review 63: Super Cup Football
Back to the 80s for our soccer fix – a time of proper tackles, horrendous hooliganism, and top Tomy playthings
May 13
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Andrew Brassleay
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Game review 62: Fishing Game
An old childhood classic: grab as many creepy, gasping plastic fish with nasty big pointy teeth from a battery-operated rotating board
May 10
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Andrew Brassleay
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'Games don’t have to have many rules to be engaging': Helaina Cappel of Kids Table Board Gaming on family-friendly designs
The Haunt the House and Foodfighters co-designer on how her experience as a teacher helped her work as a games publisher
May 1
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Andrew Brassleay
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'Games don’t have to have many rules to be engaging': Helaina Cappel of Kids Table Board Gaming on family-friendly designs
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Game review 58: Pitch & Plakks
Modular miniature golf, complete with bridges and volcanoes
Apr 22
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Andrew Brassleay
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Ignore the 'Scrabble for Gen-Z' moaning: 5 family board games proving collaboration is as fun as competition
Scrabble Together? Games do, and should, change over time. Particularly if they are based on a language that has hundreds of words added to it each year
Apr 17
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Andrew Brassleay
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Ignore the 'Scrabble for Gen-Z' moaning: 5 family board games proving collaboration is as fun as competition
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Game review 55: Extreme Rock Climbers
Reaching for the summit, despite many frequent falls in this vertical tabletop game
Apr 12
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Andrew Brassleay
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Derek Pederson of Woosung Boardgames: 'It’s great to connect with others'
The content creator and reviewer on how posting a few photos of family games night resulted in an online audience of more than half a million
Apr 3
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Andrew Brassleay
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Libraries Board Game Club begins: 'Play should be universal and available to all'
A new scheme is providing libraries in the UK with a 'board game club in a box'. We spoke to the programme's creators to find out how it can benefit…
Mar 27
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Andrew Brassleay
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EAP Toy and Games' Chrissy Fagerholt: 'A laugh is the easiest way to build connection'
The key to a great game that spans the generations according to the indie publisher founder and designer? Five rules or fewer
Mar 20
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Andrew Brassleay
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EAP Toy and Games' Chrissy Fagerholt: 'A laugh is the easiest way to build connection'
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Game review 50: Slide Quest
A board game like a video game – Slide Quest plays straight out of the box
Mar 18
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Andrew Brassleay
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Game review 46: Screwball Scramble Level 2
Not sure if anyone had this childhood classic as a gaming franchise spanning decades, but here we are. Is it better than the original though?
Mar 4
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Andrew Brassleay
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