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“Mysteriously appealing” is how several testers described their experience playing Dweebies. On the surface it is a very simple card game where you lay cards in a grid and try to make matches. You can plan a strategy but it often falls apart because you are at the mercy of the cards drawn and played. …
Sounds Like A Plan is a clever, amusing and thoroughly entertaining game. We have tried to condense the premise of the game for purposes of this review but we always end up doing a disservice to a game. Suffice to say that whether playing with older children or adults the experience engages all players during …
A Lego game that you construct and play with that is based on the Harry Potter franchise, hmmm what are the odds of that being embraced by testers? As you might expect, especially after that opening remark, testers were enthusiastic and ebullient as they embraced and then gave high marks to this half building set, …
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, otherwise known as The Mythbusters, have successfully navigated themselves beyond the world of cable TV and their well documented “scientific” experiments into genuine rock star status. The Mythbusters game is made for fans of the show and it is they who will have a decided advantage in answering questions about …
Dr. Seuss gave us so many marvelous stories and characters. If you ask the millions who grew up with his books which character stands out, The Cat In The Hat always seems to stand alone. Using that as a starting base we discovered a wonderful new game that brings the cat’s magical hat to life. …
Spotcha is a game that demands and gets the focused concentration of all the game’s players more than any game we have tested. Once the playing pieces, truly random objects, are tossed on the table, players race to match the positioning of how each object landed to the illustrations on the card they drew. The …
A thoroughly ingenious and unique word game, Konexi is a marriage of jenga-like dexterity and word building skills. The idea is to add game pieces, one for each letter of the alphabet, using the notches carved out of the piece AND make words AND not let the whole thing topple over! You see, as you …
If you love to play games and you love to laugh then put this game on your “must get” list. Bubble Talk is an exceptionally simple game where you will find 150 funny photos and 300 crazy captions. Players place the card that they believe is the funniest caption and judge decides. This is a …
What else are you going to call a game that borrows the best of Scrabble and Poker? The challenge is to deliver a game that combines the two in such a way that the experience is fun, captivating and if you can throw in a health dose of educational value you might just have a …
This fun memory matching game is made more fun and memorable thanks to an electronic talking dog. There are several games to play depending on age and skill but it is Rover who runs the show calling out the color that players needed to search for, this can be designed as a great active play …
