A couple weeks ago I wrote about the fabulous game Acuity by Fat Brain Toys and invented by BlueMatter games.  If you didn’t read it – you should, there’s a great inventor interview in it.   (Click HERE)  Anyway, as it turns out there’s ANOTHER Fat Brain item from the same inventor duo: Fish to Fish.
I refer to Fish to Fish as the “word-melt picture game” because I did a lot of “word melts” when I was growing up.  Those are the little puzzles where you see how many words it …

I’m not going to lie, the “Apples to Apples voting” in games is kind of getting to me.  I love the all-play aspect of these social games but having one person pick an answer from all of the answers offered up from other players is starting to feel a little overused.  Maybe it’s that I’ve played too many games of Apples to Apples and it’s hilarious and offensive counterpart Cards Against Humanity in the past month but I was glad to see that Celebrity Throw Down by Buffalo Games added an …

A couple years ago at ChiTAG I kept running into these two other inventors… it was almost like they were following me.  Or was I following them?  Either way I’m thrilled I got to meet Nicholas Cravotta and Rebecca Bleau of BlueMatter Games because they are just downright fun people!  So when Fat Brain sent me a couple of games to test out I was thrilled to know that a few of them come from this California-based duo (because I figured they’d be nice enough to do a little interview …

I am breaking all sorts of rules this spring!  Last month I reviewed my first 18+ game and now I’m revisiting a game I’ve already reviewed.  Well, when the exceptions to the rules falls into my lap I just can’t seem to pass them up!
I reviewed Get Bit by Mayday Games last summer – you can read the article HERE – and since I’ve reviewed it before I’m not going to rehash how to play but instead focus on the bad-ass changes in Get Bit Deluxe.  (If you haven’t played, …

Knowing that I have a penchant for dice games, Patch was nice enough to send me a copy of their new game Shizzle.  It’s an interesting little game as it has a mechanism that tosses the dice for you but it’s really the six uniquely colored dice that makes the game interesting.
In the past month I’ve seen that Shizzle has made its way through some of the other online game review websites (thank you Twitter) and for the most part I think we’re all on the same page; Shizzle is …

To start, you fill the board randomly with all non-glitter gems (the glittered ones are special and called “Power Gems”) and make sure you don’t have any 3-in-a-rows of the same color gem either vertically or horizontally.  Then you play.  On a turn a player flip-flops any 2 adjacent gems – and again, no diagonals.  This swap must result in a 3-of-a-kind (or more) of at least 1 color gem – if it results in two 3-of-a-kinds (or more) that’s even better for you!  For each 3-of-a-kind you collect 1 …

Back in December of 2010 Richard wrote a blog about an alternative way of funding a toy/game project and of course he was talking about Kickstarter. (Read it: “Need to find investment money? Try “Kickstarter”) In the article he mentioned a little game called Cards Against Humanity. It got funded via Kickstarter in early 2011 and since then has been a sort of viral hit.