When it comes to Dragon Face, I don’t think there is much praise that can top the fact that over the past several months the nuances of this game have yet to get old. If anything, they continue to multiply. There are no sure-fire strategies. This means that there are multiple levels of play. There are subtleties that you can… Read more »
One of my personal tests for a good strategy game is what happens after I play. If I find myself walking around in a crowd, looking at people I might be able to jump, I know I’ve played something deep enough to engage my conceptual entirety. Then, of course, I start thinking about who I can find to play it… Read more »
Dragonrealm Gamewright | Game Factory | BGG | Buy Designer: Darren Kisgen Art: Chris Beatrice Publisher: Gamewright, Game Factory 2-4 players 20-30 minutes ages 10+MSRP $25Time to teach & learn: 5-10 minutes Pack your lucky socks and get ready for an adventure exploring Dragonrealm! Sneak into the witch’s cabin, search the ogre’s treehouse, or storm the dragon’s lair. Explore the wilds and add… Read more »
Lava Dragon can be a very scary game – especially if you follow the recommendations and change a rule or two. As you can see, there’s a castle-mountain-looking thing which is actually (gasp) a volcano! And there, perched on the top, a comparatively giant (double gasp) dragon! And should you, teeny tiny micro-fig that you are (to get a sense… Read more »
Listed below (by year) are past winners of the Major Fun Award! We’ve been at it for 19 years online (and many more before that), so there’s a tidal wave of fun waiting for you here… over 635 games! We play hundreds and hundreds of games each year but only a few are selected for this honor. You’ll notice a… Read more »
Gamers’ Games are Major Fun for the more experienced gamer. For one reason or another, these games are a bit more difficult or require a greater time investment than the games we generally award BUT we feel that they are well worth the effort. Matter accomplishes what many believed to be impossible. Through some thaumaturgical process, the alchemists at Simply… Read more »
Turns out to have been another great year for great games. Here’s our favorites: Reverse Charades plays like the traditional game of charades but instead of one person acting and the rest of the team guessing, one person is guessing while the rest of the team is performing. That’s it. Team act. Individual guess. Reverse Charades. In Reverse Charades, no one is… Read more »
Hammer Time HABA USA | BGG Designer: Shaun Graham, Scott HuntingtonArtist: Natalie BehlePublisher: HABA2-4 players 15 minutes ages 5+ MSRP $25Time to teach & learn: 2-3 minutes Sparkle mountain stands before you, its caverns filled with glittering gems. You and your crew of gnomes are ready to fill your wagons with riches, tapping rubies, diamonds, and emeralds loose from the walls… Read more »
We recently lauded the excellent River Dragons with a Major Fun Award. In order to shake off accusations of excluding our amphibian friends, we offer up our praise of Ponder, a delightful game from Mind Twister in which you race to get your toads from one side of the pond to another. It sounds a lot like River Dragons, but… Read more »
Of course, if you are like us, it takes a while to really set up the game because you are re-enacting scenes from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with the bamboo and pretending the wooden game pieces are deadly Linja assassins. First the black Linja infiltrate the palace, then the red Linja neutralize the roof guards, only to discover they’ve been lured into a devious trap…