Reading Time: 6 minutes Copyright, Finders Seekers Tabletop gaming has been a fast-growing past-time for geeks for many years. The size of my tabletop game collection can attest to that. It is only dwarfed by my video game collection. When we think of tabletop games we generally think of board, dice, or card games, right? […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Last month I wrote about the engaging Kickstarter project, Heroes and Treasure. Heroes and Treasure is the brainchild of Jason Davis, a roleplaying game aimed at children aged four and up. It’s a labor of love, a project worthy of GeekDad support, and it’s tantalizingly close to fully funding. This is a sponsored […]
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Villagers is a card drafting game created and illustrated by Haakon Garder, it is currently crowdfunding via Kickstarter and has already tripled its goal amount. In Villagers, players compete to design a successful village in a land not dissimilar to medieval Europe.
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Reading Time: 10 minutes This post is sponsored by the Heroes & Treasure Kickstarter campaign. Stories and make-believe are essential to childhood. Few things give me greater pleasure than watching my kids inventing new stories, taking on different personas, and interacting with one another in a positive way to achieve a common goal. All of […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutes In CONEX, the field of play grows like a colorful hydra as players lay cards from their hands onto an ever-expanding tableau. What Is CONEX? CONEX is an abstract, family friendly card-laying game in which players try to place a card from their hand onto the tableau, overlapping an existing card […]
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Every now and then, we all need a reminder on how to build relationships with other people. And of course… Tabletop Games to the RESCUE!! Here are three favorites to teach you how to bring out the best in your relationships (and have a bit of fun doing so)!
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Who will come out on top over four years of high school? Whether your goal is straight As or being the most popular kid in class, ‘Kicking Class’ will have you competing for the scholarship of your dreams. [SPONSORED]
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Reading Time: 11 minutes Photograph by Sara Blackburn If you’re a board gaming parent like me, probably at least .001% of the reason you had kids was to make it easier to play your favorite games at player counts higher than two. Coordinating schedules with other adults is tough. Your kids are a captive gaming […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Shaperise is a colorful, fun memory game for the whole family. Quick to learn, hard to master, it is perhaps most remarkable for the fact it was designed by an eleven-year-old boy. British games company The Green Board Game Company runs an annual “Young Board Games Inventor” competition. Shaperise was their 2016 winner. The prize […]
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Reading Time: 10 minutes Photo: Crooked Tower Games The wizards of Zoor shape-shift and clash, each hoping to be the successor to Zafirah, the last of the Zoordar. Use your spellstones and magic items wisely to outsmart your rivals in Wizardz Bluff! What Is Wizardz Bluff? Wizardz Bluff is a bidding/bluffing game by Ron and Jayson […]
Continue ReadingReading Time: 2 minutes As always, I’ve got some Kickstarter reviews in the pipeline, but there are always a lot of fascinating tabletop projects out there that we won’t get to review in depth, often because we just weren’t able to get a prototype in time. Here are a few current projects that I wanted […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Somewhere in the darkness, just beyond the glow of a dying campfire, something evil lurks. A hunter is awakened from her slumber by a guttural growl and all her senses are immediately on alert. With limited ammo for her crossbow, can she survive the night or will the Monster prevail, in […]
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‘ROBiTS’ is a fast, family card game designed by GeekDad John “Hex” Carter and Mat Nicholson. Players compete to take the robot pieces they need from the production line, earning bonuses for matching colors.
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Fishy Tactics is a pocket-sized game for two to four players aged four and up. Players collect fish from their boat, watching out for the Croc, and for other players trying to steal their catch.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending January 19, 2018. Did you see CMON’s Kickstarter trailer for Hate? (Not linking because it’s very NSFW.) Were you as dumbstruck as we were? This week’s image is from Meeple Circus. Three rings of fun! Gen […]
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Some of us in the northern hemisphere may have already had too much snow and ice for one year, but for those who haven’t, here are three very different ice-themed tabletop games for you to play while you avoid the real thing outside.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending January 12, 2018. It’s the new year and with it comes some resolutions, possibly. I pledged to clean up and organize my collection, a goal I’m about halfway done with already. Have you made any resolutions […]
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The ‘Star Wars Destiny’ Two-Player Game is a new ‘Star Wars Destiny’ starter set designed to allow a fully playable game from a single box.
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In this month’s Between the Bookends, Corrina, Anika, Rebecca, Amy, Sophie, & Bookends newcomer Chris share books to see you through the end of summer.
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The Gauntlet is an invitational board game tournament benefitting Treehouse, a charity for children in foster care, and it’s not too late for you to be involved.
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