Starving For Entertainment: Hungry Hungry Hippos
May 6, 2010 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Board Games
How can they still be so hungry? This is why America's kids are so obese.
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 I’d enrich my diet. Hey, and how topical, because I figured I’d talk about Hungry, Hungry Hippos. Read more
Too Much Awesome Podcast: Episode 2
April 19, 2010 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Toys
In today's episode, we give you some of our personal tips about board games, as well as some handy suggestions for the toy industry.
After a slightly longer wait that we meant, we finally have the second episode of the Too Much Awesome Podcast starring Kyle Martinak and Chris Pranger. In this episode, we talk about video games a little more, toys once more, and make sure to go into greater detail about board games. Specifically, we gives some of our personal strategies to winning at board games, as well as some suggestions for Monopoly and the most effective way to play Clue.
Games Cards Do Not Actually Talk: A Guess Who? Retrospective
April 16, 2010 by Chris Pranger
Filed under Board Games
So simple yet so wonderful. Perhaps the perfect kid's game.
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 child, partly due to seeing the advertisements on TV. But I’ll get to that in due time. First, a light history lesson. Read more
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.
