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CategoryNew Year Thoughts and a Pause
Happy 2022! I wish all my readers a happy and healthy new year filled with family, friends, and lots of games! Let’s talk about what’s up in 2022…
2021 Toy Hall of Fame Inductees Announced!
Today the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong, The National Museum of Play, announced which 3 of the 12 finalists it selected to be in..
Shop early this year…
For real, you need to shop early this year — and not just for the holidays but for any fall or winter birthdays too! I stopped in at one..
National Inventors’ Day: Let’s Celebrate!
Thomas Edison, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress), Public Domain
Reposted from 2017: Happy National Inventors’ Da..
Toys for Tots and other ways to play Santa!
‘Santa’s Portrait’ byThomas Nast, published in Harper’s Weekly, 1881
Happy December everyone! I’ve posted this article in the past (..
2020 Toy Fair Trends: Online Themed Adult Party Games
For a while there we saw just dirty adult party game upon dirty adult party game, but now we’re seeing lots of online themed adult party g..
2020 Toy Fair Trends: 80s and 90s
This is an ongoing trend — and I’m sure at some point we will be done reliving the 80s and 90s, but that is not this year! We forge ahe..
2020 Toy Fair Trends: Crazy Drawing Games
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a ton of new drawing games released at once, and this year there were a bunch. Granted, these aren’t d..