5 Best EXIT Games to Start With, Ranked by Difficulty
There are dozens of EXIT boxes. They are the same size, and on a shelf they look interchangeable. They are not. Picking the wrong one as your first is a quick way to decide you…
Author: Vinny Coelho
5 Best Marvel Board Games to Play Before Avengers: Doomsday
Avengers: Doomsday arrives in theaters on December 18, 2026, and Marvel has just shifted the marketing into a higher gear. A new trailer premiered at Disney's D23 event in August, introduced on stage by Robert…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Board Game Review: Is It Just Pandemic With Jedi?
The most common question about this box is also the most reasonable one: is it just Pandemic with a Star Wars sticker on the lid? Short answer, no. Longer answer, it keeps the skeleton of…
5 Best Star Wars Board Games to Play Before Ahsoka Season 2
Every time an Ahsoka trailer drops, the same thing happens. People finish watching and go looking for a way to stay in that galaxy a little longer. Search for a board game with Ahsoka in…
Christmas Board Game Gift Guide: What to Buy for Anyone
Buying a board game as a Christmas present is harder than buying one for yourself, and for a specific reason: you are not choosing a game, you are guessing at a person. Their patience, their…
5 Best Cheap Board Games That Adults Enjoy Too
The cheap shelf in a supermarket looks the same everywhere: Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, a few boxes of Sorry. Those games have a real job, and they do it well, which is giving a…
5 Best Board Games for 3 Year Olds That Actually Work
Most lists of board games for 3 year olds are really lists of games rated 3 and up, which is not quite the same thing. A box can say 3+ and still ask a child…
5 Best Halloween Board Games for a Spooky Game Night
The problem with most lists of Halloween board games is that they treat "spooky" as one setting. It isn't. There's an enormous distance between a game where you chase Dracula around a cartoon town and…
How to Play Risk: Complete Rules Guide (2026)
Most groups that play Risk get at least one rule wrong. Sometimes it's the card trade-in values, sometimes it's who wins a tied roll, and sometimes it's the fortify move, which is far more restricted…
10 Classic Board Games and Which Ones Still Hold Up
Everyone has a closet shelf with three or four of these on it. Most were bought decades ago, played to death one summer, and pulled out once a year since. Some earned their reputation. Others…