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Make Your Own Board Game

By sarajean on 6/30/10 5:59pm
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My daughter and I were flipping through her National Geographic Little Kids magazine when we came across a fun board game. It’s very simple—a winding road, much like Candy Land—where each square lists an activity to do. To play, you can simply roll a die (or flip a coin) to take turns with a friend, and then follow the instructions.

Some of the instructions read things like clapping as loud as you can, hugging a friend, or drawing a sand castle. Fun, right? I got to thinking that A. this board game looks super easy to make and B. wouldn’t it be fun to make our own board game like this one?

I have a ton of ideas that we’re going to try over the holiday weekend. Here are a few themes that I thought about:

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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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Pandemic: A Cooperative Board Game

By msarko on 9/7/09 1:54am
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While there's nothing quite like some friendly competition around the table, sometimes it's better for everyone to be on the same team for a while. Instead of being player vs. player, it's players vs. rules, a gaming situation in which the only way to win is to communicate with your friends. One of the best co-op board games out today is a relatively new title called Pandemic.



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Board Game Review: Prince of the City

By msarko on 8/7/09 3:07am
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Last week I wrote about White Wolf's World of Darkness line of roleplaying games, so I thought I would take the opportunity to talk about one of their simpler properties, a board game called Prince of the City. Released in 2006 as a less involved supplement to the RPG Vampire: The Requiem, this board game is relatively easy to grasp for first-timers but has a lot of room for strategy in the case of long-time players.



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Monopoly – America’s Favorite Game

By NanoGirl on 6/23/09 12:01pm
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MonopolyMonopolyEveryone I know LOVES to play Monopoly!  It has to be one of the all time favorite games of America and what a better party game than this?


What you will need:


Monopoly board game (any edition will do, I am partial to the Simpson’s Monopoly and the Seattle Monopoly)


Players: 2-6


Ages:  8+

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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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