How To Beat Your Friends In Board Games
January 20, 2010 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Board Games
You want to be as relaxed and successful as Rich Uncle Pennybags here? Follow my advice and you'll be closer than you think.
Things and Stuff: A Review of The Game of Things
January 12, 2010 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Board Games
A deceptively conservative box. What could the contents include?
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 decent game here for parties with the right group of people. Let’s get into this review then.
D’oh! A Review of The Simpsons Scene-It?
January 4, 2010 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Board Games
The Ultimate Simpsons Trivia game?
I had a pretty darn good Christmas (and thank you for asking). I came out of it like a bandit, partly because my family listened to my list and got me a lot of what I had written down, such as No More Heroes for the Wii, Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks for the DS, and The Simpsons Scene-It? Deluxe Edition. I discussed Scene-It? last fall but I didn’t cover a specific edition of the game in great detail. I’ll be darned if I do the Twilight edition (because I didn’t get it of course!), but now that I’ve played the Simpsons version a few times I can tell you what works well and what doesn’t.
“Ain’t” Is Not a Word: A Scrabble Guide for the Lazy
November 25, 2009 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Board Games
Delightful fun for the English major in all of us.
Few games take advantage of an overactive vocabulary the way Scrabble does. In fact, Scrabble is all about knowing difficult words in the hopes of showing up your family with a massive triple word score for something with a Z in it. Apparently, Scrabble is also the proud owner of a sordid past, but let’s not get too hasty! Okay, we can get hasty. Let’s learn about Scrabble!
The Party Game For Everyone: Cranium
October 16, 2009 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Board Games
Oh come on, you've played this game already, right?
Sitting down with people is difficult to do. Who likes to talk anymore? Too hard. In today’s world people need something to ease the awkwardness of social interaction, and while there are many options both legal and otherwise, I’d say the smartest comes down to a party game. You may have read my previous review of Scattergories, but there is another game that gets the job done just as well: Cranium.
I Am Scattergories and You Can Too: A Scattergories Retrospective
October 9, 2009 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Board Games
This equals a party right here.
Please tell me that all of you have played Scattergories at some point in your life. If you have not, I will find myself extremely saddened and may not be able to be your friend anymore. Still, there is some hope, because then I will get a chance to tell you about my favorite party game. But first, as always, some history.
Board Games – From Chess to Candyland
When you sit down to play a game of Backgammon, do you realize you are playing a game that is over 3000 years old? Board games, in some cases, pre-date literature in cultures, and have stood the test of the ages as key learning tools, forms of entertainment and cultural advancement.