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) |
Apples
to Apples, fun with words, judgment, and artful debate - for
4-10. (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) |
 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) |
 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 |
 "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) |
 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) |
 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)
|
A to Z - a remarkably fun, and often funny word game for 2-4 players or teams,
ages 8 and up. (review) |
 Columns is
another beautifully crafted game "PIN" from Out-of-the-Box's Masterpiece collection.
(review) |
 Combo
King is,
from time to time, a game that makes you laugh. Sadly, what you
are laughing at is someone else's failure. A failure of very little
significance in the scheme of things, mind you. Which, I believe,
is precisely what makes this game as fun as it is. (review) |
 Muggins -
a game of chance, strategy and calculation for 1-4 players or teams,
old enough to do arithmetic (review) |
 Catch
22 will remind you of Parcheesi...But
let me tell you right now, what we got here is as much like Pachisi
as chess. (review) |
 Zig
Zag is
a strategy game for two players, though we played it with two teams.
The goal of the game is to be the first to line up 4 pegs in a
row. The pegs, however, can only be moved along certain "tracks." Tracks
that each player has laid down, one turn at a time, patiently,
o so patiently. (review) |
 3
Stones is
a unique, easy to learn tic-tac-toe-like strategy game for two
or two teams. (review) |
 Nerdy
Wordy is
a challenging word game for two players, based on the traditional
children's paper-and-pencil game of "Word
Square." Based, but better. (review) |
 Isolate is
an elegant little strategy game for 2 or 4 players, from first grade
to adult. It can take from 20 minutes to an hour for a game. The
two-player version is as good as the four, and the strategy different
enough to make it worth trying both. (review) |
 The
tic tac toe part of Doubles
Wild makes it easier to understand and play. The dice part of
it, most surprisingly, elevates the game to something surprisingly
unique, nail-bitingly exciting and, from time to time, pants-wettingly
fun. (review). |
 Luck
of the Draw is
described as "a game for the artistically challenged." And I am
happy to tell you that this turns out to be a remarkably accurate
description of the very people who will have the most fun playing
it: the people who don't like games that make them draw. (review) |
 Cover-up is
a tic-tac-toe-like game, for all the best reasons: easy to learn,
quick to play, and different enough from tic-tac-toe to make you
have to think. It's made of heavy plastic, also for all the best
reasons: the pieces feel good in your hand, the playing board is
3-dimensional, and the base of the board serves as a storage compartment
for the pieces. (review) |
 Let
me tell you about MixUp,
the game. It is a two-player, multi-kibbitzer kind of strategic-like
game. If you've ever played or seen a game called "Connect
Four," you'll figure out the game more or less immediately, until
you begin to realize the implications. Ah, the implications. There's
a board with chutes, you could say, and it stands up, and you take
turns dropping pieces into any channel, even on top of your opponent's
tiles, in a familiarly Connect-Four-like manner. (review) |
 Wikki
Stix are
an incredibly simple toy, so simple that they invite kids and adults
to hours of creative play. (review) |
 Twistable
Erasable Crayons - the ultimate communication tool for the executive
child. (review) |
 Soda
Constructor a virtual, animated construction toy (review) |
