Devotees to board games enjoy how they can transport players to other places—the distant past, a faraway planet or perhaps an entire fantasy universe unto itself. Some fully immerse players in their pastiche while others present an art style that doesn’t make its way into the board game. Most important to remember is that, when… Continue reading Popular Themes in Board Games
Board gaming is a hobby that rewards comprehensiveness. New board games seem to be arriving all the time, and it’s impossible to keep up unless you already have a pretty robust knowledge of what else exists—after all, why play a new board game if it’s just a reskin of something old? As one might expect,… Continue reading How to Build Top 10 Board Game Lists
Spring has officially sprung, even if the weather doesn’t cooperate or feel quite spring-y just yet in parts of the country. The slow inching away from winter has become the norm over the last few years, and has imbued a particular saying with more truth and meaning: “April showers bring May flowers.” More than simply… Continue reading April Sayings for Board Games
The college application process can be maddeningly confusing and arcane, forcing students and parents to negotiate a delicate series of variables for only a slim chance of getting into their school of choice. All any of them can do to stay sane is to treat the whole thing like an elaborate game. The stakes might… Continue reading College Applications and Board Games
With the Super Bowl just over the horizon, one might wonder what’s in it for us, the gamers of the world who can’t generally be bothered by team sports (or were not athletic enough to participate back in the day, or ever). Good news is that gaming fandom is all the rage. For one thing,… Continue reading Sports vs. Board Games
As board gamers, we’re quite familiar with the rules. New Year’s resolutions are made in January, obviously. They’re broken by February, for sure. They’re entirely forgotten by March, this much we know. Yet last year, we decided to make them anyway. How did we do? Likely not well, but just like in most games, we’re… Continue reading Board Gamer New Year’s Resolutions
In a few weeks, we will be fully into the 2020s decade—no more can we claim that the decade is just beginning. As depressing as it may seem, time marches on, and at this point something as recent as the 1970s was 50 years ago. Yikes! 50 years before that, we hadn’t fully hit the… Continue reading Board Gaming Through The Decades
Let’s be honest: We all want to feel better, live longer, make more money, improve our fitness and, of course, stop having wants we know can’t be achieved. Savvy capitalists are capitalizing on this trend by offering all manner of ways to improve people’s lives—whether it’s through motivational speeches, fad diets or a regimen of… Continue reading Life Improvements With Board Games
As board gamers, time spent not playing a board game is time wasted. Where’s the excitement and intrigue in grocery shopping? The deduction and reasoning in Netflix and chilling? The random number generation in your divorce settlement hearing? Going gameless for too long is simply too much to bear. Thankfully, the concept of gamification is… Continue reading Gamification In Your Life
Rolling the dice is a gesture so commonplace, you’d be forgiven if you forgot just how fundamental it is, and has been, to board games. Without it, pieces on boards sit unmoved, the number of things collected within a board game goes uncounted and Michael Jordan goes without his halftime gambling fix. But, as simple… Continue reading The Art of Dice Rolls
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