Tabletop Tuesday — Better than Real Life (Or, Down with Math!)

As strange as this will sound for a lover of board games and someone who has to ration his time with a screen for migraine reasons, today I'm going to talk about some games that are so much better to play online. Now, for transparency, these are games I've played on BoardGameArena.com, and the only …

Tabletop Tuesday — Two Players, Competition

Last week, I popped in with some of my best experiences of co-operative games with two players, and this week I figured I'd flip that and list the "versus" style games my husband and I have enjoyed on our trip through the gaming jar. The gaming jar was our way of trying out all our …

Tabletop Tuesday — Two Players, No Competition

When the pandemic started, my husband and I had recently gone through our board game collection and tucked a few aside as games we hadn't played in a long time, and weren't likely to play again, and had even found new homes for those games, though they're still in a pile because, well, pandemic. When …

Gaming Day

I know, I know, technically today is Boxing Day. But board games come in boxes, and I'm a nerd. While I normally talk here about books and writing and story-telling more than anything else, it's the holidays, and for my husband and I, that often means board games. We adore board games, and have had …