Tag: card game

  • Labyrinth, a game to play with the whole family

    Labyrinth, a game to play with the whole family

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    For years I heard people rave about Labyrinth. I’d even given a copy to a friend for Christmas one year, and I had a copy sitting on my shelves, but for whatever reason we didn’t really pull our copy out all that often. Then I went on a “clear out our game shelves” kick, and…

  • Why play card games?

    Why play card games?

    I was looking through my games I wanted to write about, and was thinking about card games, and why you should play them. It then turned into a card games for gameschooling, and a bit of a collection of all my card games, both the ones I’ve written about, and the ones I haven’t written…

  • Tempurra game

    Tempurra game

    A few years ago I bought Tempurra as a gag. I saw it at Half Price Books and thought, “Why not, it looks like it could be fun and it’s only $5.” Then it sat on our shelves until I told the kids, “We need to play some of these games we haven’t played much…

  • Welcome to the Dungeon card game

    Welcome to the Dungeon card game

    While as a general rule, our family likes to play very complex games (as I’m writing this, we’ve spent the past several days putting together and playing a new game we backed on Kickstarter), occasionally I like to have a short game to play. This could be a great gameschooling game to play with your…

  • Chronology Game review

    Chronology Game review

    A few years ago I opened a Christmas present to get the Chronology card game from my Mom’s boyfriend and he said, “I know you like games and history, so I thought you might like this.” I was a bit skeptical because he doesn’t particularly play games, but I thought, “Why not give it a…