Nov
13
The premise of blackjack is simple: Play the odds, and hope to end up with a higher total than the dealer without breaking the 21 barrier. With each flip of a card, players get a buzz of excitement. What’s going to be revealed? Will their risk-taking pay off?
Nov
1
Theme Week: New Games from Spiel 2006
Hundreds of games debut at Spiel, an enormous game fair held each October in Essen, Germany. While dozens of new titles await their turn at the FAB testing table, we’ve already found a week’s worth of games to recommend.
In the 1970s, Peter Burley invented a simple, tile-laying game that played somewhat like bingo. One person would pull a hexagonal tile out of a bag, then all the players would place that same tile from their tile stash onto their personal playing board. Players repeated this process until their …
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Oct
29
Theme Week: New Games from Spiel 2006
Hundreds of games debut at Spiel, an enormous game fair held each October in Essen, Germany. While dozens of new titles await their turn at the FAB testing table, we’ve already found a week’s worth of games to recommend.
The urge to gamble seems hardwired in the human system: We date people we know nothing about, we take on ill-defined jobs that promise future riches, and we create new humans who cause all kinds of havoc in the lives of everyone around them.
No wonder then that …
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Oct
24
This simple bluffing game revolves around one question turn after turn, a question that happens to have its own soundtrack: “Should I stay or should I go now?”
Players explore a series of five mines, each of which is represented by a randomized deck of cards. Each flip …
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