Gobblet is a four-in-a-row game for two players, 7-up, using nesting
pieces.(review) |
SET - find sets of three in this elegant and perceptually challenging
card game for one or more players ages 6 and up. (review) |
Sequence -
combines cards with five-in-a-row for a well-balanced, luck/strategy
game for 2 or 3 players or teams, ages 7 up. (review) |
Stack is an elegant strategy game for 2-4 (or 8 with two sets) you
play with dice. 7-up. (review) |
 Muggins -
a game of chance, strategy and calculation for 1-4 players or teams,
old enough to do arithmetic (review) |
 Blast
It! - a word game for 2 or more. It looks like Boggle, but
it's not. And it has a higher Gigglewatt rating.
Ages 8-up. (review) |
 You'll
probably be amazed at how much fun you and your matchstick-puzzle-loving
friends can have with Stix.
(review) |
 3
Stones is
a unique, easy to learn tic-tac-toe-like strategy game for
two or two teams. (review)
|
 River
Crossing -
a puzzle with 40 different levels. (review) |
 Word
Sense is
a sweet little word game that will keep 2-6 players delicously
challenged for ten minutes to an hour (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) |
 easy
to learn, challenging the intelligence, are built on a unique principle. Fire
and Ice is one of the few. (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) |
 OK,
you can call it "Quits," but
you won't want to. Quit, that is. In fact, you'll want to play
it again, and again, and at least again. That is if you like strategy
games for two or four players. (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) |
 Quadtria is
an elegant, and beautifully made two player strategy game. (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).
|
 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) |
 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
|
 Shipwrecked is
an intense, challenging bidding game with enough strategic ramifications
to occupy every corner of your so-called mind.(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) |
 Basari is
definitely one of your more complex games, involving, as it does:
racing, bidding, bartering and strategizing. But it is not one
of your more difficult games - and that's what makes it so noteworthy.
(review) |
 Balancing
Aliens never disappointed us...Such an elegantly made instrument
of fun, so finely tuned, so subtle, so strategic, so silly. (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) |
 Abagio The
goal in Abagio is to get all of your 12 frogs into the pond before
your opponent does but it's not cut and it's certainly not very
dry... (review)
|
 Sashay is
a chess-like strategy game, with a bit of Go, a hint of Stratego,
and a touch of Battleship. (review) |
 Poison
Pot is one of those sweet little 2-3-player strategy games
with just the right balance between the kind of strategic depth
that makes you want to play again and again, with the sheer,
dumb luck you also need to keep you from taking it too personally
when you lose.(review) |
 Siege
Stones is a lovingly crafted strategy game for 2-4 players.(review) |
 Rumis is
a genuinely deep strategy game for 2-4 players from Educational
Insights, who also produces Blokus. (review) |
 It
was more than two years ago when a game called "Gobblet" became
the first strategy game to get a Major FUN Award.
Now, it's Gobblet,
Jr., a simpler version of Gobblet where the goal is to get
three-, instead of four-in-a-row. (review) |
 Heximoes are,
as the name so clearly implies, hexagonal dominoes. 132 hexagonal
dominoes, to be precise. Compared to your basic rectangular, 28-in-a-set,
two-number dominoes, Heximoes are at least three times more complex.
So the question is, are they, as the manufacturer suggests, six
times more fun? (review) |
 TIPOVER is
only the second puzzle/game to receive a Major FUN Award.
The first was also an ingenious, 3-D puzzle/game called "River
Crossing." (review) |
 Palabra is
a word game that is easily as deep as Scrabble®, more competitive,
and yet requires only a deck of cards. 120 cards, actually. Cards
with letters on them. And colors. And some even with special symbols.
And some more special than that.(review) |
 You
lovers of strategy games, you appreciators of perceptual challenges,
is with great pleasure that we introduce you to the latest Major FUN Award-winner: DaVinci's
Challenge (review). |
 Loot turns
out to be a surprisingly elegant, fast-paced, and quite strategic
card game for 2-5 players (or up to 8 players in playing in teams).
(review) |
 Columns is
another beautifully crafted game "PIN" from Out-of-the-Box's Masterpiece collection.
(review) |
 Sitting
Ducks Gallery - it's like a carnival game. You know, the
one where you shoot ducks. Only you play it with cards. (review) |
 Deflexion is
a chess-like, two-player, arguably abstract strategy game - with
lasers! (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) |
 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) |
 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) |
 Ringgz is
a strategy game for two, three or four players. And yes, it is
as strategically interesting with three as it is with two or four.
Rife, rife I say with strategic implications, each all subtle and
delicious, revealing themselves at different times during the game,
and still other times when you play again. (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) |
 Blokus
Trigon is a hexagonal version of the
Major Fun awarded strategy game, Blokus
What's the difference between the hexagonal Trigon and the square
Blokus? Well, there is an extra piece (22 vs. 21) in Trigon, and
the shapes, though similar in variety to pentominoes,
are built of triangles as opposed to squares. (review) |
 Sudoku
Challenge is prolific game designer Reiner Knizia's answer
to the widely distributed (and I mean widely),
and often excessively-challenging Sudoku
puzzle. And it turns out to be a surprisingly fun answer, even
for people who don't know or especially like Sudoku. (review) |
 Spectrangle is
a lovely, and happily intense game of luck and srategy - with just
enough complexity to present a challenge, and just enough chance
to keep the playing field level, as it were, so to speak, even if
adults are playing too. (review) |
 Flip-Tac-Toe is
a 3-in-a-row game on a 4x4 board for 2-4 players. And that's not
all. It's a Tic-Tac-Toe game that breaks almost every convention
of Tic-Tac-Toe, and yet, when all is said and done, is still definitely
Tic-Tac-Toe.(review) |
 Trapture is
played on a hexagonal board with sets of 12 "Squiggles" - strips
of 3 to 6 rectangles, joined at 60-degree angles. There are apparently
many ways strips of 3-6 rectangles can be joined at 60-degree angles.
Each of the 2 sets has 11 of them. (review) |
 Knights of Charlemagne, yet another game by the amazingly prolific Reiner Knizia, is what one might call a Major FUN Award-winning strategic card game. (review)
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