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Theme Week: The Need for Speed

There’s a time and a place for games that require a lot of planning, pondering, and chin-rubbing. That time is not this week, and that place is not this website. Here we present a half-dozen games that force you to play fast, fast, fast.

While games themselves are fun, their names usually aren’t. El Grande, Coloretto, Acquire, Cartagena—these names are descriptive and functional, not show-stoppers that attract strangers passing by on the street.

A few winning game names are out there. Hoity Toity inspires curiosity; Wheedle is a hit with SpongeBob SquarePants …
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November 23, 2006 | (5) Comments | Permalink

Theme Week: Ubergames—Germany’s Award-Winners

The German game industry hands out the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) each June to the best family game published in the previous twelve months. If you’re looking for games that are easy to learn and fun to play, pick up one of these winners.

Every American gamer knows Jenga. You remove a block from one level of an organized stack, place the block on the top of the stack—adding to or starting a new level—and hope the stack doesn’t topple. Block, block, block.

Villa Paletti plays like Jenga, but it has a …
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October 19, 2006 | (1) Comments | Permalink