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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
With Lanterns landing on HBO Max this month, DC is back in the conversation, and the obvious next question is which DC board games are worth playing while you wait for the next episode. Here's…
Some party games need a rulebook explained twice before anyone has fun. Codenames needs about ninety seconds. Lay out 25 word cards, split into two teams, and suddenly people who barely know each other are…
