Recently we had an unplanned, and unprepared for, day at home. While Dad cleaned the kitchen and I worked on a project, what would the munchkins get up to on their own? Read More
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An Impromptu Un-parented Game Day
Category Archives: Games
How Quitting Video Games Made Me Miserable (And How I Fixed It)
Pregnant with our first child, I heard all the standard questions. Yet, there was one question I never prepared for: “When are you going to stop playing video games?” Read More
Family Games for the Holidays: ‘Who Did It?’
‘Who Did It?’ is a short and silly card game where players need to deflect blame away from their own pets when “an impressive poo is found.” Read More
Tabletop Review: ‘Skylands’
GeekMom Elizabeth reviews ‘Skylands,’ a tile-placing game great for families from Queen Games. Read More
Family Games for the Holidays: ‘Super Slow Sloths’
‘Super Slow Sloths’ is a family game in which players become a sloth character and compete to be the last one to cross the finish line. Read More
Tabletop Review: ‘Cheeky Butts’
GeekMom Elizabeth reviews ‘Cheeky Butts’ from Banagrams Inc., a Hot Potato matching game from the Fall 2019 line. Read More
NYCC: “Full Frontal’s Totally Unrigged Primary” App
Sure, politics is called a “game” but this is an app that lets you play for the Democratic candidate of your choice to receive a $250,000 donation. Read More
Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘The Search for Planet X’
The Search for Planet X is a deduction-style board game currently funding on Kickstarter in which you must search for the fabled Planet X. Read More
Tabletop Review: ‘Tricky Druids’
GeekMom Elizabeth reviews ‘Tricky Druids,’ a dice and resource sharing based tabletop game for kids from Pegasus Spiele’s Gen Con 2019 releases. Read More
Save & Exit: Archiving Video Games
Australia is the latest nation to start archiving video games, recognizing the importance of why we should archive and why it is so hard. Read More
‘The 7th Guest’: A Disappointing Return to Stauf’s Mansion
‘The 7th Guest’ is a board game based on the 1993 video game of the same name that attempts to recreate the sinister vibe of the original. Read More
Tabletop Review: ‘Wizardry to the Power of Three’
GeekMom Elizabeth reviews ‘Wizardry to the Power of Three,’ a cooperative memory-based board game from Pegasus Spiele’s Gen Con 2019 releases. Read More
‘Invasion of the Cow Snatchers: Mooove the Magnets Logic Game’ Is Out of This World!
Fire up your tractor beam and let’s abduct some cows! Logic game style… Read More
Tabletop Review: ‘The Furglars’
GeekMom Elizabeth reviews tabletop family game ‘The Furglars’ from the makers of ‘Bananagrams.’ Read More
There’s an Escape Room Inside My Puzzle!
Assemble a puzzle, solve the mysteries, and escape from the room in this line of escape room jigsaw puzzles! Read More
Sign Up with S.H.I.E.L.D. or Hail Hydra in ‘Codenames: Marvel’
In ‘Codenames: Marvel,’ players work in teams to identify all their cards from a grid before the opposing team identifies all theirs. Read More
Channel Your Inner ‘Harry Potter’ Fan in ‘The Sims 4: Realm of Magic’
GeekMom Elizabeth reviews ‘The Sims 4: Realm of Magic’ game pack from Electronic Arts. Read More
New Logic Game ‘Domino Maze’ Is a Topplingly Good Time
Take logic puzzles into the third dimension with this new logic game from ThinkFun. Read More
Tabletop Review: ‘Pigasus’
GeekMom Elizabeth reviews family matching game ‘Pigasus’ from Brain Games. Read More
Tabletop Review: Ice Cream Dice Grab Bags
GeekMom Elizabeth reviews Ice Cream Dice’s Grab Bags. Read More
