Stack is an elegant strategy game for 2-4 (or 8 with two sets) you play with
dice. 7-up. (review) |
SET - find sets of three in this elegant and perceptually challenging
card game for one or more players ages 6 and up. (review) |
 Smart
Mouth got
the Major FUN Award almost
before we started playing it. The design of the "game mechanism" makes
a very simple word game concept into a genuinely fun, exciting
challenge. (review) |
 It's
a puzzle. It's a strategy game. You can buy
it online. You can play
it online. It's called "Tantrix." (review) |
 Wordigo is
a word-board game that four players or teams can play simultaneously.
So much fun that it's almost a party game. (review) |
 Abalone is
a strategy game using a method of movement unique enough, and fun
enough, to make playing the game a new, and utterly absorbing experience.(review) |
 Ten
Days in Africa -
etc. - is an innovative game of strategy and luck for 2-4 players.
Definitely strategic, with enough luck to keep the game surprisingly
fun. (review)
See also (review)
of 10 Days in USA |
 On
first glance, Wildwords could
be easily mistaken for that highly popular word/board game, SCRA*LE.
...Of course, it's the differences that make it interesting - differences
that are different enough to make it a completely new, and disturbingly
compelling game.(review) |
 Blokus We
knew the first time we played this, it was love at first sight. The
rules are easy to learn....so easy that you don't expect it to play
as well as it does. (review) |
 Balancing
Aliens never disappointed us...Such an elegantly made instrument
of fun, so finely tuned, so subtle, so strategic, so silly. (review)
|
 Chairs is
probably one of the most challenging and playworthy dexterity games
I've encountered. And I've done a lot of encountering! (review) |
 Every
now and then I come across a game so elegant, so simple, so well-designed
and made, that I am reminded why I started this whole Major FUN Awards program. Scoop's
Surprises is just that kind of game. (review) |
 We
took this picture during our last Tasting. David and company are
on our front lawn, learning to use "beebo
Big Bubble Mix" to create what can only be called an XTREME bubble.
(review) |
Apples
to Apples, fun with words, judgment, and artful debate - for
4-10. (review) |
Curses,
a high Gigglewatt party
game. (review) |
 Hasbro's
Electronic Catch Phrase is
probably one of the best electronic party games ever. Today, we
have an improved Electronic Catch Phrase, just released, with new
categories and words, making something like 10,000 in total. (review) |
 You
gotta give a hand to Mr. Handy, the inventor of Handy.
(review) |
 Soda
Constructor a virtual, animated construction toy (review) |
 Wits & Wagers combines
trivia with betting to create a unique party game - one that can
involve anywhere from 3 to 21 players in an evening or half-hour
worth of relatively painless trivia questions and sometimes near-painful
strategizing. (review) |
 "Bonkers," you
ask? Yes, say I, Bonkers, the game. A word game, actually. Not, as
you might think from all that trivia-sized box of little cards, a
trivia game. But a word game, in deed. And a funny one, too. (review) |
 Cuboro Cuboro
is a beautifully made wooden construction toy that is used to create
marble labyrinths. (review) |
 Oball is
a throwing toy that successfully spans ages, abilities and environments.
(review) |
 Wikki
Stix are
an incredibly simple toy, so simple that they invite kids and adults
to hours of creative play. (review) |
 Silly
Putty. Obviously. See also - Crazy Aaron's Thinking
Putty. (review) |
A to Z - a remarkably fun, and often funny word game for 2-4 players or teams,
ages 8 and up. (review) |
 Think
of perhaps shuffleboard with
dice. Think, for example, of a shuffleboard that is on five levels,
with, where there were once pucks to slide, dice to, well, slide perhaps
or flick or shove. A shuffleboard looking pretty much exactly like this.
(review) |
