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Arkham Horror: A Lovecraft Board Game

By msarko on 9/18/09 3:41pm
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For one reason or another, Internet culture has latched onto the stories of author H.P. Lovecraft as a source of cultural humor, specifically his end-all monster, Cthulu. This modern upswing in interest in Lovecraft's iconic horror stories has resulted in a number of fun bits of entertainment ephemera. One of the most extensive is a board game called Arkham Horror, a cooperative adventure in which a series of strange characters have to race against time and battle an army of horrible monsters to stop an ancient nightmare from rising in the modern world.



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Balderdash

By NanoGirl on 6/8/09 6:23pm
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BalderdashBalderdashI must say that this is one of my all time favorite party games, ever!  Balderdash is the “classic bluffing game” and who doesn’t love to bluff on occasion?!  I remember playing this game with my siblings and my oldest brother’s answers would always make me crack up so hard &ndash

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Free Party Games, Part 1: Who Am I?

By sarajean on 5/23/09 8:41am
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Who Am I?Who Am I?Not everyone has the money to fork out for the various games-in-a-box on the market. When you’re planning a party, there’s food, music, booze, vomit cleaner, and loads of other things to pay for—why spend more money on games?

Not to mention, people tend to forget “the seventeenth time we played Scene It at Dave’s house.” By offering a unique game that your friends have never heard of, you’re more likely to create lasting memories (at least for the ones who are sober). You may even end up at so-and-so’s house sometime and find that nobody wants to play the Jenga she’s got on the table; they want to play one of the games they learned at your party!

Here is a fun, basically free game you can play (it does require things you have on hand at home).

Who Am I?

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