Some people love word games. Some people really don’t. I’m somewhere in the middle. I really enjoy some word games very much, such as Boggle and Quiddler, but others aren’t as much fun, such as AmuseAmaze. So when I received …
Continue ReadingAround our house, we are very fond of Gamewright games. With titles like Slamwich, Rat-a-tat Cat and Loot in its catalog, this company consistently churns out winners – and not just fun games, either. A good number of Gamewright games …
Continue ReadingThe ship is going down, and the rats have to outrun the rising water to the top deck! That’s the gist of Abandon Ship, a board game from AEG, the same company behind The Isle of Doctor Necreaux. At first …
Continue ReadingNearing the end of a marathon gaming session, Dan was feeling pretty tired. With each roll, he began to notice a pattern — he began to think the dice were talking to him. So Dan began keeping track of his …
Continue ReadingThe diabolical Doctor Necreaux is up to his old shenanigans: he captured the world’s top scientists and forced them to build a doomsday device on his secluded hideaway (a volcano, naturally). When he demanded that the world bow to him, …
Continue ReadingNews from The Department of Geek Things You Didn’t Even KNOW There Were Records For: A team of professors from Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Michigan have set a new world record for packing …
Continue ReadingCheck out the d12 handbag Evil Mad Scientist Lenore Edman created. Drawstring dice bags are nearly ubiquitous amongst people who play with non-cubical dice. They can even be used as hand bags. But what about the inverse– a bag that …
Continue ReadingWe have a lot of dice in my household. We have traditional six-sided pipped dice. We have a fine selection of gaming polyhedrals (in both matched and unmatched sets). We even have a couple sets of dominoes, which, while they …
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