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I was working with a client recently and they showed me the video below and they wanted to know more about “the pie game.” I’ve seen the video before (a bunch of times) and I was a little embarrassed that I didn’t know WHAT “the pie game” was. So I found out. It’s actually a cake game, called Piece ‘O Cake even though I agree the slices look more like pie — but you can see the clip for yourselves below. The “pie game” starts at 3:27.
We’ve already established that Piece ‘O Cake …
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If you follow me on twitter you may have seen the tweets from certain twitter folks who might be a bit disgruntled that Santa left a very hard to find copy of King of Tokyo under the tree for me. As I pointed out to them – and now to you too – if you look to eBay it’s not super hard to find.
The theme of King of Tokyo is really compelling; each player is an enormous monster causing destruction and mayhem while vying to control Tokyo. Who won’t like …
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Back in the summer of 2009 I wrote an article on one of my FAVORITE dice games: Can’t Stop by Sid Sackson. In this article I mentioned that I got my copy back in 2007 and it wasn’t going to be the easiest game to find — but good news for all, NOW IT IS!
You can scroll down to read my original review, but before that I’d like to rave about it’s new design. The new Gryphon Games version is on the right and the older Face2Face games version is on the left …
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Even though there have been holiday decorations up in stores across the country for more than a month, I personally can’t believe it’s already November and the holidays are right around the corner! Now, for many of you in the game world you know that before we can dig in to our Thanksgiving turkey, we have to meet in Chicago for ChiTag! And the game I’m going to review this week, Befuzzled, will be the star of the Fun Q Games booth.
I’ve had Befuzzled on my desk for a little …
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A while ago I asked on Twitter what everyone’s favorite speed games were and I got a variety of answers but one stuck out to me, “Jungle Speed.” I was curious about this game as it was suggested by a couple tweeps who share my taste in games. Shortly after I got an email from the manufacturers of Jungle Speed and I figured the cosmos was trying to tell me that I’d enjoy this game. And I do. And apparently I’m not the only one since more than 2 million copies of …


