SIX OF THE BEST… Tickets to Ride
My daughter is on her spring break right now, and is spending it with her mother, but before she left we spent an entire weekend playing board games -- mostly Ticket to Ride*. So, before [...]
SIX OF THE WORST… things about playing against the computer
As much as I love playing games with other people, sometimes* it's not possible to have them around. Sometimes you're stuck playing a game you love by yourself. Enter the computer player -- a reasonably-sophisticated [...]
Zombie unReality: Survival Street Games & Virtual Reality, Arizona Sunshine
If you close your eyes and imagine a post-apocalyptic world where you are a hardened survivor, fending off the undead with your trusted machete, Michelle, at every turn and generally being a lone badass, well, [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… alternatives to classic card games
A couple of months ago, I wrote a column about alternatives to classic board games. But sometimes you don't feel like pulling out a box with a bunch of pieces and tokens and such. Sometimes [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… alternatives to classic board games
Do you groan when someone in your family pulls out Monopoly, knowing that you're about to be in for three hours of hell, ending when you all give up because no one is ever going [...]