Just Announced — Pandemic: The Cure, Spreading to Your City in 2014
Pandemic gets smaller with a just-announced dice version of the game, called Pandemic: The Cure, coming your way in the latter half of 2014.
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Tag: Dice
The Inside Scoop on This Week’s TableTop: King of Tokyo
On this week’s episode of TableTop, Wil and friends play King of Tokyo. Learn all about the episode and get behind-the-scenes info from the show’s associate producer, Boyan Radakovich.
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Roll For It! Is a Must-Back, Family-Friendly Kickstarter Game
Roll For It!, from Calliope Games, is a great family game — and one you can back on Kickstarter.
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TableTop Returns With the Fun Dice-Rolling Racing Game, Formula D
TableTop returns for season two with this premiere episode, featuring host Wil Wheaton, Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, and Greg Benson playing the dice-rolling racing game, Formula D.
Continue ReadingFrom Brainstorms to Boards: Using The Game Crafter to Polish Ideas
In December 2011, I fell asleep wondering how a three-person game of Roshambo would work. From the inspiration of BIG Night to the engineering of The Game Crafter, I was able to polish that idea into something I could put …
Continue ReadingPirate Dice: Voyage on the Rollng Seas
Pirates in pursuit of the fabled treasure sail through treacherous waters. The most treacherous part, of course, may be all the other pirates. Pirate Dice: Voyage on the Rolling Seas is a dice-based “programming” game that funded successfully on Kickstarter …
Continue ReadingEscape: The Curse of the Temple
You and your fellow explorers have journeyed deep into a Mayan (or Aztec or something) temple, but now you find that it’s cursed! Activate the magic gems, beware the black masks, and get to the exit before the temple collapses. …
Continue ReadingTake It or Leave It: Family-Friendly Press-Your-Luck Game
Take It or Leave It is a new press-your-luck dice game from Gamewright, a company that GeekDad is quite fond of. If your family is fond of Zombie Dice but you want a little variety in your games of chance, …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Dice Games
Chuck-a-luck is a dice game played with three dice that are rolled within a closed container. After wagers on the numbers 1-6 (from each face on a standard die) are placed, the dice are rolled, and payouts are made per …
Continue ReadingZombie Dice Expansion Breathes New Life Into the Undead Dice Game
Perhaps one of the most exciting spur-of-the-moment party games to take its place on game tables in the past couple of years was Zombie Dice. The ultra-fun dice game took game conventions by storm and became the go-to while-you-wait game, …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Dice Games…
In light of this past weekend’s large lottery jackpot (a tax of sorts, on those that aren’t good at math), I thought it most appropriate to have a puzzle-of-the-week based upon a game of chance — chuck-a-luck. Chuck-a-luck is a …
Continue ReadingArmy Vs. Aliens Lets You Dominate the World
Overview: It’s a battle for the control of the world! Grab a cup and roll the dice – the fate of humanity is in your hands! Players: Two. Ages: 8 & up. Playing time: 15 minutes or less. Retail: $14, …
Continue ReadingTake a Shot at Six-Sided Spikers With Trophy Buck
If there’s a segment that’s underrepresented in boardgaming, it has to be deer hunters. But thanks to Steve Jackson Games, that’s no longer the case. Trophy Buck, a new dice game from the publishing company, allows you to get buck fever …
Continue ReadingRoll Over Writer’s Block With Writer’s Dice
Prolific game designer and master of Kickstarter, Daniel Solis, is at it again with his latest project: Writer’s Dice. It’s a simple enough idea: a six-sided die with words imprinted on the sides. Toss the dice and get a word: …
Continue ReadingKnock Your Blocks Off
Overview: Stack up your blocks, knock down everyone else’s! That’s the basic idea of Knock Your Blocks Off, a new game from Gamewright that combines dexterity with speed and some light strategy. (Really, it should probably be Knock Their Blocks …
Continue ReadingDice for Any Occasion
Eric Harshbarger is, for all intents and purposes, a guy who does a bunch of stuff. One of the things he appears to do is make dice. Not just any dice, though. Interesting dice. Dice that have pretty much anything …
Continue Reading2 Wacky Dice Games: Guns and Monkeys and Bears, Oh My!
Overview: Everyone knows monkeys love bananas. What you may not know is that in order to get bananas some monkeys resort to violence. Monkeys With Knives and Guns is exactly what it sounds like: a crazy dice game about getting …
Continue ReadingKerfuffle! Is the Best Kind of Disturbance
Overview: Place your dice on the grid to form series or groupings of like dice, follow the instructions on the cards and be the first to get rid of all of your dice to win! Players: 2-4 Ages: The box …
Continue ReadingLigretto Dice — This Is How We Roll
Overview: Ligretto Dice from Playroom Entertainment is quick, fun, and just a little chaotic. Everyone plays at once, trying to get their dice on the gameboard before everyone else. Although it’s been branded like Ligretto (also known as Dutch Blitz), …
Continue ReadingFortune Cookies + Kung Fu + Dice = Cookie Fu
Overview: The forces of the Dark Cookie are preparing to invade the land of Fu. Pick a Clan and learn the secret kung fu moves of the Chocolate Ox, Vanilla Hare or Coconut Monkey, then battle it out to earn …
Continue Reading3D-Printable Thorn Dice Are All Kinds of Geeky
Chuck Stover’s Thorn Dice can be purchased from Shapeways, a rapid prototyping service that will take a design and output it in metal or plastic. A set of 6 dice costs $75 before taxes. You can get them cheaper printed …
Continue ReadingTell Us a Story for a Chance to Win Rory’s Story Cubes
Once upon a time, there was an island that was far, far away, across a vast, blue ocean. This island, surrounded by rocky shores, tall cliffs and cold, cold waters, was more famous for its green fields and clover than …
Continue ReadingToy Fair: Math Dice
One of my favorite booths at Toy Fair this year was Thinkfun. They make a wide array of puzzle games with multiple games for each age group. I spent nearly half an hour talking to the founders of the company …
Continue ReadingYou Can Help Raise Funds For The Dice Tower’s Vasel Family
If you like board games, you’ve probably seen (or at least heard of) Tom Vasel. Tom is the driving force behind The Dice Tower, a site devoted to board games and features podcast and video reviews of games. Among board …
Continue ReadingThe Bones: Us And Our Dice Takes A Closer Look At Our Polyhedral Obsession
Have you ever been so sick of low rolls, you destroyed your dice in a ritual execution? Do you have an addiction to buying new dice? Have you ever let out a sigh after rolling a 20 (when you only …
Continue ReadingNew Cthulhu Bag Holds Your Dice, Eats Your Sanity
It’s not every day that you would want to invite the star-spawn of the high priest to the Great Old Ones into your home, but you may want to make an exception to that rule when you see how many …
Continue ReadingNumber Ninjas Is a Great Game for Getting Kids to Love Math
My kids have been having a tough time with math this year. I don’t know if it’s the new concepts or the memorization or just the bigger homework load, but I decided the best approach would be to make math …
Continue ReadingDavid Alvarez’s Game-Based Mosaics
Dice. Cards. Rubik’s Cubes. I’m sure many of you have these around your house, maybe lots of them. You might even use them quite often. But I bet few of you have done what performance artist David Alvarez did with …
Continue ReadingHungry Cthulhu – A Rules Hack of Cthulhu Dice
Perhaps unsurprisingly (considering that I’m a fellow with a d20 permanently inked onto his bicep), I have a lot of dice around the house. From an early age my son has been enamored by their various shapes, sizes and hues, …
Continue ReadingEngraved Dice Signal A New Direction for Q-Workshop
Polish gaming dice manufacturer Q-Workshop has earned a reputation for cool and setting-specific dice like Call of Cthulhu sets, dice with dwarven or elven runes, giant 20-siders used as Magic: The Gathering life counters, and so on. As of …
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