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Because Sometimes Death Can Be Entertaining: A 13 Dead End Drive Retrospective

While I’ve been pretty on top of things when it comes to video games, board games have been getting the shaft lately and for that I apologize. To make up for it, we’re going to have a mandatory Board Game Week here at Toy-TMA, starting with a title I got excited for as a kid [...]

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Think While You Have Fun!: Yahtzee

Since writing an overview of poker for the uninitiated, I have noticed how commonplace it is to find someone who has not played the traditional board games that populated my youth. But I think everyone is familiar with Yahtzee. Origins and Comparisons The official game began as an activity aboard a Canadian couple’s yacht in [...]

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Apples to Apples, Dust to Dust: An Apples to Apples Retrospective

For a while in high school I had friends that became obsessed with the game Apples to Apples. It was the only game anyone would bring to parties anymore and the only game people would specifically ask for at said parties. In fact, people would plan parties around playing this game. So for me, I [...]

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Starving For Entertainment: Hungry Hungry Hippos

Alright, we’re nearing the end of the week and I’ve talked about video games, Dragonball Z, and some random dude’s CD (albeit he is a talented dude). To round out the week, I should talk about board games, shouldn’t I? It’s all part of the new program my doctor placed me on in hopes that’d [...]

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Forget-Me-Nots: The TMNT Pizza Power Board Game

If you listened to yesterday’s episode of the Too Much Awesome Podcast, you’d currently be jittering with anticipation to learn what my favorite board game growing up happened to be. The time has come and the secret is out. My favorite childhood board game was…the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Power Board Game. Surprising? Not [...]

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Games Cards Do Not Actually Talk: A Guess Who? Retrospective

When was the last time I covered a board game? Too long I’d bet. After much soul searching I decided it was time to talk about a game that was near and dear to my heart: Guess Who. Or rather, Guess Who?, as it was commonly spelled. I played this one quite frequently as a [...]

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Just Don’t Panic: A Retrospective on Catch Phrase

I’m a fan of good party games. You’ve caught on to this already being the intellectual readers that you are. I’m ready to talk about yet another fantastic game to break out when friends and family come to visit. Time for Catch Phrase.

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How To Beat Your Friends In Board Games

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Like Capture The Flag With Bombs: A Stratego Retrospective

So chess is a classic game of strategy and checkers is a classic game of “I Wish I Were Chess.” I was always good at chess (checkers, not so much), but there was another game I was addicted to beyond those two: Stratego. Have you played Stratego? You really should. Don’t believe me? Oh ye [...]

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Things and Stuff: A Review of The Game of Things

I’ll be downright honest here and let you in on a little secret: Before I got The Game Of Things for Christmas I had never heard of it before. Does that make me a bad person? Probably not. What it did manage to do is make me feel kind of stupid since there’s a pretty [...]

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