The world is now more inter-connected than ever. While this may sound like a good thing, it also means that a butterfly flapping its wings over the Straight of Hormuz can cause a cascading disruption to global supply chains, which you can doomscroll and read all about on any of your 3+ internet-connected personal devices. […]
The Game of Life is a classic American childhood game that fills its players with excitement for the future as they imagine themselves getting a job, getting married, buying a house, and then having 1-4 kids, quite possibly all within a handful of successive, relatively effortless turns. The message: adult life is easy, fun, and […]
Western theater traces its roots back to Ancient Greece, with famous titles including Antigone, Medea, and Oedipus entertaining audiences with fun plotlines of suicide, infanticide, and incest/murder, respectively. We’ve come oh-so-far since then, with the likes of SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical gracing the most esteemed stages. Well, now, dear gamer, it’s your turn to create […]
I’ve organized my fair share of group theater excursions, and I’ve always selected a block of seats either in a single row or back-to-back across two rows. How basic of me. Of course, I’ve never had to worry about packing a theater for a world premiere, ensuring celebrities are surrounded by enthusiastic fans, and convincing […]
I may be a board game collector now, but my collecting predilection started at the age of 7 with seashells. Specifically, I loved collecting the vibrantly colored and variously shaped shells that could be found along Florida’s Gulf of MEXICO coast from Marco Island up through Sanibel Island, the latter also being the home of […]
Innovation debuted in 2010, accomplishing the impressive feat of packing an entire interactive civilization game into a mere 105 cards. Its popularity has led to subsequent printings of three other editions, each with slight tweaks to card balance and artwork. Additionally, there have been four expansions that add to and alter the existing gameplay in […]
Extraterrestrial settings are popular for board games, possibly because they avoid the potential geopolitical quandary or insensitivity of area control, settlement, and resource/worker exploitation inherent to games of more Earthly environs. Thus, designers are free to escalate conflict without offense, such as in titles like Moon Colony: Bloodbath, Moonrakers, and Skymines. This is where 2023’s […]
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the author of the first published computer algorithm before computers existed; to put it succinctly, she was a computer science pioneer and visionary. Sadly, her ambitions were never fully realized during her own lifetime owing both to her gender and her untimely death. In the 200 or so intervening years, society […]
So who is Paul? No, I’m not referring to Paul Dennen (Dune Imperium/Uprising), Paul Salomon (Honey Buzz), or Paul Peterson (Smash Up), though I’m sure I could find gaming disagreements with each of these fine designers. Rather, I am referring to my wonderful husband Paul, the man who introduced me to the strategy board gaming […]
Wood is a common resource input in board games, whether it’s for building fences, buildings, or any of a number of wooden trinkets. There are even some games with wood-centric theming, like Woodcraft and Lignum, which delve into some detail about processing and manipulating wood to attain final products. These games typically treat wood as […]
Working in the biomedical field, I’ve developed a pretty strong stomach for blood, guts, and gore. But going fishing? Eughhh! That’s where I draw the line for grossness. Shoving a hook through your helplessly wriggling bait, smelling the putrid sourness of dying flesh as fish get gutted, and having hours on end of nothingness to […]
Calico is a game that looks deceptively cute and cuddly, possessing an adorably floofy kitten on the cover atop a pastel quilted backdrop. Inside the gameplay, however, is a brutal brain-burner of a puzzle where players are challenged to optimize among 36 unique tile types within a slew of overlapping scoring opportunities that all seem […]
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