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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.

Parents like to play games with their children to help them understand the principles of fair play, learn how to win and lose gracefully, and boost their brainpower. But unless the game is decided entirely by luck, parents and other adults often feel they have to keep their own brainpower …
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November 21, 2006 | (59) Comments | Permalink

Many game designers and publishers use the same themes over and over again, casting players as business owners, stock holders, pirates, astronauts, merchants, and other familiar roles. But sometimes you’ll run across a game with such an unusual theme that the game itself becomes more interesting. “Tell me more,” you …
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November 19, 2006 | (6) Comments | Permalink

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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November 1, 2006 | (2) Comments | Permalink