Fluttering Souls is a beautiful two-player abstract card game from Good Games Publishing.
In the game, players compete to collect sets of butterflies in order to score the most points to win the round.
Win 3 rounds and that player becomes the master Lepidopterist!
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As a child of the 80’s, I remember seeing Gremlins when it opened in movie theaters in 1984. And I loved it!
I also remember watching Gremlins with my kids when they were old enough for me to enrich their lives with classic 80’s culture. And that’s when I realized, Gremlins really isn’t a kids movie!
Those Gremlins are pretty nasty creatures. But the excruciating deaths by kitchen appliances is quite an eye-opening scene (when I’m now seeing it through the eyes of my kids).
How irresponsible of a parent could I be?
But I digress…let’s talk game instead!
With the Christmas holiday upon us, it’s time we slap some Gremlins around in this new game by Funko — Gremlins: Holiday Havoc.
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The board game hobby continues to smash through boundaries. And we’re excited to be a part of it!
Today we made another such breakthrough on a podcast targeted to business leaders — The Learning Life Podcast with Jon Tota.
As you might guess from the title, The Learning Life focuses on the learning industry. They have weekly guests sharing new insight, new stories, and best practices to help organizations take their learning to the next level.
But when Jon saw our 2020 Board Game Gift Guide, he thought it would be awesome to take a break from the weekly corporate learning talk and talk about something fun — board games!
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Do you prefer your Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts toasted or frozen?
If you’re like people we know, your immediate response may be, “you can eat them frozen?” Well, apparently you can.
And in Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts Game, by Funko, you’ll be taking both toasted and frozen Pop-Tarts to score points and hopefully be the first to eat 30 points worth of the convenient snack.
Pop-Tarts is a simple and quick card game that up to 6 players can enjoy.
Just be warned that you’ll probably need some snacks nearby because you’re going to get hungry playing the game.
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You’ve arrived for your vacation, and it’s time to hit the luau! As you arrive, you see a table full of beautiful and vibrant flowers. Once you meet some other guests at the party, you and the other players will begin making your own leis.
That’s the setting for Lucky Luau – a new card game from CardLords.
It’s a simple and quick card game where players draw flowers, leaves, and kukui nuts to string along their leis. Whoever has the best scoring lei when the flowers run out is the winner.
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Do you like deck-building games like Dominion, Clank!, Legendary, and Thudersone Quest?
What about resource-collecting/converting games like Century: Golem?
How would you like a game that mixes those game mechanisms together?
Well, that’s what you get with Rune Stones by Queen Games!
At SaltCon 2020, I was able to get in a demo game of Rune Stones with some friends and we all enjoyed it.
And now that I’ve played it a number of times since then, it’s time to share my thoughts on this family board game.
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I’m a big Toy Story fan.
I was blown away with the animation in the first Toy Story movie in 1995 and have loved every one since. So when Disney and Pixar released Toy Story 4 last summer, it didn’t matter if my kids weren’t young anymore. I was going to see it!
And as soon as it hit Disney+ this year, I was ready to see it again.
But Toy Story 4 wasn’t the only cool Toy Story release last year. The OP also released a new Toy Story cooperative board game — Toy Story Obstacles and Adventures!
With as much as I like Toy Story. And as much as we enjoy cooperative board games. I had high hopes diving into the game.
And I won’t make you wait until later for the surprise — it delivers the fun!
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We’ve all been pretty disappointed since Pluto was declassified as a planet in our solar system.
Not that we had any actual travel plans of getting there some day. But when the International Astronomical Union decided to withdraw Pluto’s status as our solar system’s 9th planet in 2006, it caused quite the stir.
Well, all that’s behind us now. We must look to the future!
And your future may include becoming part of the crew to rediscover the 9th planet in The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine by Kosmos!
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Wow – what a fantastic decade in board gaming!
Now that we’ve rolled into 2020, we want to pay homage to the stellar board games published over the past decade. It just so happens that we’ve also been reviewing family board games, card games, party games and more for just over 10 years!
In October 2019, we celebrated the 10 year mark for The Board Game Family!
Which means we’ve been front and center with the amazing new games that have hit family tables across the world this past decade.
So, here’s our list of great family games from 2010-2019.
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This past summer I switched jobs.
The switch was great for me for a number of reasons. One of the cool perks is that there are a bunch of employees that love playing games during lunch breaks.
Since not every game makes a great lunch break game, I’ve been selective on which games to take to the office to play.
A good lunch break game is one that’s quick to set up, relatively quick to play, easy to teach, can accommodate varying numbers of players, has a lot of replay value, and can be enjoyed by almost anyone.
Point Salad has turned out to be a perfect lunch break game!
It also gets lunch break game bonus points for being about food!
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