If you’re looking for some great game ideas for friends and family, you’ve come to the right place!
This marks our 11th annual Board Game Gift Guide and we love sharing great gift ideas!
And this year we’re sharing another 40 game ideas!
Since there’s a wide range of people (ages & interests) you may be considering, we break down this game guide into various categories and share a handful of game ideas in each category.
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Do your kids love puzzle challenges?
Or maybe it’s you that loves such challenges.
If so, then you’ll want to check out Mondrian Blocks, published by Smart Egg.
On its own, it’s essentially a solitaire puzzle. However, if you’ve got more than one copy, you can play them in head-to-head races.
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Last week we shared about the cooperative story game, Stuffed Fables – where players are the stuffed animals helping a little girl.
Now that little girl has a baby brother with his own 2 “stuffies” – Pokey the unicorn and muscular Manny.
So it’s time for the stuffies to dive into even more adventures in Stuffed Fables: Oh, Brother!
While the game includes a new storybook, new tokens, sleep cards, and its own discovery deck, players still need components from the Stuffed Fables base game to play.
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Toy Story movies are still some of my favorite movies.
I love the idea of our toys having a purpose. And Pixar knows how to breath depth of character into them throughout their adventures.
Well, a few years ago, Plaid Hat Games brought that concept to life in a cooperative board game that’s fantastic for families called Stuffed Fables.
The game is a cooperative adventure game where the main characters are “stuffies” (stuffed animals) working together to save the child they love from a scheming, evil mastermind.
It’s also an “Adventure Book” game where the game board is actually a physical book teaming with adventures on every page.
And it works wonderfully!
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“Back in the Game”
That was the bold statement on the winning t-shirt design for SaltCon End of Summer 2021. And it couldn’t have been more appropriate!
It was awesome to be back at SaltCon this past weekend playing game after game for a couple of days straight.
SaltCon is the big board game convention in Utah, USA and it’s packed with gaming goodness. The event is typically held for 4 days in March each year, so I was sad when it was announced last Fall that the March event would be canceled. But, the news a few months ago that they’d hold an “End of Summer” SaltCon for 3 days at the end of July got me excited again.
Let’s dive in!
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The best board games, card games, dice games, family games, and party games of 2020 have been awarded!
The Dice Tower recently announced the winners of The Dice Tower Awards — the annual crowing of the best board games published last year.
With thousands of new games published every year, there’s never a shortage of great new board games to play.
Top board game reviewers, podcasters, and industry contributors from around the world participated in the nomination and voting process.
Now, let’s see The Dice Tower Award Winners for 2020:
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Ah, the lazy days of summer!
Time to sit outside and enjoy the fresh air. Or time to play some lawn games with your family like cornhole, bocce ball, ladder toss, horseshoes, or spikeball to name a few.
Well, now there’s a new lawn game on the scene that brings in some board game type fun to the mix – Kingdoms Lawn Game!
It’s a fantasy themed lawn game for the entire family.
Individuals or teams join mystical factions bent on taking down their enemies. Players throw balls (armies) underhand at their opponents lawn pawns (castles). The last team with a castle standing, wins!!!
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I’m not a big fan of word games in general.
However, there are a few that buck the trend and end up being word games I enjoy playing.
For example, though millions of people love playing Scrabble, I steer clear of it. Yet I quite enjoy playing Boggle. And the team word game, Word on the Street, is one of my favorite party games.
So when we got a copy of Bananagrams Duel from Bananagrams, the big question was, will this 2-player, dice-rolling, word-building, race-game buck that trend as well?
Let’s find out!
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When most people think of a dungeon-crawler game, they either think of Dungeons & Dragons or a tile-laying game where you build out a dungeon and explore.
Well, we’ve got a very unique dungeon-crawler-themed game for you today called Dungeon Drop!
Yep, “drop” may have you scratching your head about what that has to do with dungeons. Are you ready to find out?
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When you give your kids vegetables for dinner, do they just push them around and try to make it look like they ate some?
Or do you have to tell them to stop playing with their food?
Well, now there’s a new way to play with vegetables — Abandon All Artichokes!
Gamewright is known for making fantastic board games and card games for families and we’re happy to say that tradition continues with this light, fun family card game.
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