Endless Games did a nice job of summing up the game play of their new board game, “Name 5,” in the title so this review was pretty short, but the game’s inventor, Brian Turtle, was nice enough to share how he came up with the game.  Here’s what he said:
“Yes, I thought I was a one-trick-pony after having initial success as an inventor with The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and never writing a “sequel”.  But lo and behold, much like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Name 5 is a parlor …

I somewhat feel that it’s a copout to review a game that’s been on store shelves (mostly mass market shelves too) since 1984 BUT recently, I’ve realized that just because it’s been out that long doesn’t mean that people have actually played it.  Like, I found out that three of my favorite game test monkeys have never played Balderdash.  Jeez!  They’re all shy of 30 (which means that the game has been out since BEFORE they started reading!) and they like and play games regularly, so how did they miss …

This review of Word on the Street is SERIOUSLY over due and it’s all because one of my favorite playtesters doesn’t like the game.  Why?  Because I always annihilate him when the two of us play.  Heh heh heh.  Seriously though, Word on the Street is a great game for word game geeks.  In fact, it just won a Mensa award this year!  (congrats!)

The game is essentially a “tug of war” with letters.  There are 17 consonant tiles placed in a line down the center of the board, which is the “median” of …

Not far from my house there is a dive bar, with scary red lighting that hosts bingo on Monday nights.  It’s really not all that exciting; you win a brown paper lunch bag filled with random odd items.  I was lucky enough to win the first round Monday night and my winnings included some Cheez-It snacks, baby food, a bunny sucker and Chicklets.  By the end of the night our table had a skull candle, a bible card game and three colors of “fun dough.”  But before the bingo festivities …

Recently Buffalo Games posted a question on Facebook asking people how they find the games they buy and play – and actually I get that question pretty often.  A LOT I find during Toy Fair, some are sent to me by the manufacturers, some I have in my collection already and then the others come from religiously trolling around the internet looking for fun games to add to my collection.  Recently, I was looking at an old post about a Reiner Knizia dice game from Board Games With Scott (*See …