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MicroMacro Crime City Game Review: A Complete Guide to the MicroMacro Universe

MicroMacro Crime City is the first in a series of story telling games that have players acting as detectives, using their investigative skills and deductive talent to help the local police, piece together the clues to solve crime by finding characters and events on a giant, table-sized map. You are working together as a team […]

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Kites Board Game Review: Let’s Go Fly a Kite

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Floodgate Games | 10-15 minutes | 2-6 players | 10 years and up Kites: Time to Fly is a cooperative, real-time board game that will have everyone on the edge of their seats, taking turns playing cards and flipping over the sand times and keeping their figurative kites in the air, by avoiding any of

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Stomp the Plank Board Game Review: Make a Splash at Your Next Game Night

Board Game Reveiws, Reviews / Michael

Publisher: Ravensburger | Player Count: 2-4 | Play Time: 10-15 minutes | Age Range: 5+ Stomp the Plank is an addictive dexterity game that manages to capture all the push-your-luck joy of a game like Blackjack, but there’s no money on the line here – it’s just a question of whose elephant pirate will fall

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Sea Salt and Paper Card Game Review: An Origami Ocean

Board Game Reveiws, Reviews / Michael

Pandasaurus | 20-40 minutes | 2-4 players | 8 and up Welcome to the world of Sea Salt and Paper with amazing origami artwork depicting folded paper depictions of creatures, ships, and other nautical characters. Come for the charming artwork, but stay for the interesting and tactical race they’ve managed to pack into this simple

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The Quest For El Dorado Board Game Review: Race for the Gold

Board Game Reveiws, Reviews / Matt

By: Ravensburger Players: 2-4 Ages: 10+ Time: 30-60 mins Deep in the dense jungles of South America lies El Dorado, the lost city of gold, where unlimited gold, jewels, and artifacts await anyone who can find it. Take on the role of a brave expedition leader, assemble your brave team, and acquire valuable equipment to

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Review of HABA’s Dragon’s Breath Game – Picking Up the Pieces

Board Game Reveiws, Reviews / Michael

Dragon’s Breath Game is a high-quality kids’ game where players take turns acting as a dragon breathing fire and melting a pillar of ice, releasing the unusual sparkling treasure frozen inside. Kids will get a kick out of roleplaying as the dragon and then removing rings and spilling stones all over the game board. They’ll

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Animal Upon Animal Game Review: Fine Motor Skills for the Whole Family

Board Game Reveiws, Reviews / Michael

Animal Upon Animal is one of the greatest kid’s board games of all time and a true HABA classic. It is a simple stacking game with chunky wooden pieces, where players see how many animals they can stack up before it all comes tumbling down. I’ve played this game with two-year-olds, five-year-olds, ten-year-olds, adults, grandparents.

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Best Board Games for 13-Year-Olds

Blog, Board Game Reveiws, Kids Games, Reviews / Charlotte

This is part of our series on Board Games by Age. Check out the main post for more recommendations. Board Games for 13 year olds vary as much as the child does. Finally a teenager, this age comes with its own set of challenges as their experiences grow and their hormones change unexpectedly. Games at

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Cascadia Board Game Review

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By: Flatout Games Players: 1-4 Ages: 10+ Time: 30-45 mins Travel to the Pacific Northwest in this tile-laying, token-drafting puzzle game featuring wildlife and habitats found in the area. Cascadia is a Flatout Games CoLab game, similar to its predecessor Calico. Players compete to create the most diverse environment they can in the form of

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The Ultimate Guide to the Eye Found It Game: If You’re Looking for Family Fun…

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Ravensburger, 1-6 players, ages 3+ Eye Found It is a series of games that has kids exploring different worlds and universes including Disney and Marvel looking for hidden objects. There are cooperative and competitive versions of the game, but either way, kids will enjoy looking through colorfully illustrated scenes from their favorite movies and TV

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