We are thankful for loads of time to play board games.
We played King of New York, Bang!, Dixit and Camel Up. Friday, we are looking at Pandemic The Cure and Blueprints.
How about you? What games are you up to this weekend?
It's a great time to be a gamer! Sales of board games have gone up 10-20% every year for the past decade and why is easy: “It's because games themselves are getting better.”
Read more at: "We are living in a board game renaissance"
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Spiel des Jahres are the "Oscars" of the game world. Here is a list of the 2014 winners, announced last May (when FlamingoCon still didn't exist, alrighty!?).
[Hear this in James Earl Jones' voice in your head]
10 Most Important Board Games in History!!!!!
Really? We link, you decide. Actually, there is some mind-blowing history in this article.
If you are reading this, then you (hopefully) aren't in the middle of a game. Since you've got time to kill, here's 60 random facts about board games from Buzzfeed. Maybe you will learn something.
Date: Saturday Jan 24.
Tentatively 10 am to 8 pm.
Location: downtown West Palm Beach, near the intracoastal even!
More details soon!
The Monsters, the Meeples, the Robots, the Shoguns and various other mini-figs are dusting themselves off and getting excited!
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia..."
Good for the people who found ways to make money off of long-established games that can mostly be played with stuff laying around the house. Here are a few games that you can try, probably without having to lay out cash.
Liar's Dice: you need 5 dice per player and a Dixie cup per player. OK, if you don't have 20 or so dice laying around your house, then this game is probably worth its asking price. But then how serious a gamer are you?
See also: Farkle, Bunco, and The Game of 10,000 (also known as Shitty Dice).
Dictionary Game or Fictionary, Sure, you can find it at game stores under the name Balderdash. The Balderdash producers added a board and other categories to give you more bang for your buck. But the basic game remains unchanged from these basic rules. You just need a good dictionary, some paper and pencils.
