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.

Cards Against Humanity.  I know MANY of you have played it by now, but since I keep getting asked about it I’ve decided to review it.  You see, I’ve always had this rule about no “adult” games on my site – but because this game is such a phenomenon I’m breaking my rule… ONCE.  (So if I turned you down because of questionable content before this is not an invitation to resubmit. sorry.)
The one thing I can say about this game is that it’s pretty darn honest about what it …

Maybe it’s my age or the fact that I’m not really into westerns… or I could just be missing this bit of Americana knowledge but I had no idea what Snake Oil was the first time I heard there was a game about it.  It sounded like something disgusting, but once I got the joke and played the game I think it’s hilarious!
The game was self-published by Jeff Ochs in 2010 and has now been licensed by Out of the Box.  I played it for a little bit at their …

Jaipur was recommended to me via a twitter pal (@ErskineThompson) and I’m so glad he mentioned it because I really enjoyed playing it. I should also say that I enjoyed playing it despite LOSING the first 4 rounds – but I almost came back to win a best of 13 round series but sadly lost the last round by 1 point.  I always say, if you can enjoy a game even when you’re losing it must be a good game.
Jaipur is a 2 player-card and chip game that takes less …