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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 …
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On the very edge of the Chicago suburbs, right at the last exit that divides the bustling commuters from the nothingness that spans to westward to the Rockford oasis there is a Cabela’s store. It outfits hikers, hunters and other people looking to venture away from the city. This weekend I made the trek from Chicago proper to this oversized log cabin to return an ill-fitting Christmas gift. As I wandered through the maze of camo and fishing gear, I spotted a game I knew, Find It. It’s a charmingly …
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When you have a hallway full of games there are often ones that you know you like but they just never get pulled out and played. I really have no idea why this happens but I think it’s like certain movies. You love them but you need to be in the right mood to watch them. And then when you finally are in that mood you’re like I LOVE THIS MOVIE! Well, that recently happened with TriBond. We played a little bit at the bar during the Toy and Game …
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I like word games, but only specific word games. You will probably never see me review Scrabble on this site because I think it takes far too long to play and I find waiting for slower players to take their turn agonizing. I also refuse to memorize the Scrabble dictionary, which I feel that you need to do to gain a solid win against the stronger players. Boggle, however, I love. It’s “the 3-minute word search game” that everybody plays at the same time. And for those of you who …
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Continuing the theme from my last article (travel games) this game may not be the easiest one to find, but if you do, it will make any road trip feel like a party. ReFraze is a trivia game that takes movie, song and TV show titles and changes them (using synonyms) so you have to decipher what the names actually are.
Want to try one? It’s a TV show: “Carpet Mice” Do you know what it is? If not, there is one clue each card – for this it gives the …
