Ambie and Crystal interview Dave Bresnick, the founder and president of the United States Professional Mahjong League, a US based Riichi Mahjong league in New York!
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Adventure Party: The Role-Playing Party Game and Newsboys. Then, we talk about handicaps in games - both ones that are built into the rules and ones that we add on ourselves.
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Mahjong and Blueprints. Then, we talk about board game tournaments - which ones we've competed in, our experiences with them, and why we like or dislike them.
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including In the Palm of Your Hand, Codex Naturalis, and Kingdomino. Then, we talk about the tactile nature of board games and what components we like physically handling.
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Hunt a Killer: Body on the Boardwalk and Artisans of Splendent Vale. We then talk about gaming remotely, but with physical board games, not digital games! Make sure to check out our new Ko-Fi page!
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Venn, Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Merry Madness, and Ready Set Bet. We then talk about games that take less than 15 minutes to play!
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Tales From the Loop: The Board Game and Loco Momo. We then talk about the intersection between giant dexterity board games and lawn games.
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Project Nos, Flapjack Flipout, and TEN. We then talk about replayability in games and what things can make a game replayable.
This is part of a series called Training Games, where I review children's games when playing (with modified rules) with my twin toddlers. This review was written when my twins were 21 months old.
My kids are almost two years old, and I’ve gone through all the board games we have that are meant for toddlers to play in this series. So this series is coming to a close, but that’s a good thing because it means my kids will be playing games by the actual rules soon! With this final post, I wanted to talk about how my boys “play” board games now that they can go into our game room.
My boys love playing board games, and they’ll often point to the game room and ask to play games. When we go in, I let them each pick out one game to play with, and try to make sure that they put it away before picking out another game. We also made sure that our more rare/expensive games are out of reach, so we don’t mind if they mess up game components.
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including The Enigma Emporium Presents: Wish You Were Here and the Stockpile app. We then talk about unique victory conditions in board games. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "unique."