Play Ball Review

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(More customer reviews)Have a six year old with nothing to do? Want to find a way to interact with your children? Then try Play Ball by Gamewright. Gamewright has created a truly unique game that makes learning addition fun.
Play Ball is fast and easy to learn. The instructions are clear and easy to follow and I was up and playing in less than three minutes. What makes this game different is that way it teaches cooperation and sportsmanship to the very young.
Educators, parents and kids will spend hours learning to add to nine. A great game for those rainy days when you have nothing to do. Play ball is small enough to travel and extremely easy to store.
Play ball is priced to fit any and all budgets. Play Ball is a definite winner.

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Playballs baseball theme comes directly from our fans requests. Sports are one way to learn about math, strategy, and competition. Players use addition and grouping skills to field teams equal to nine points in each of the four-color suit. Their opponents strategically use their action cards to block. Addition and matching skills come into play in game plays for younger players.

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Kamisado Review

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(More customer reviews)Why have more people not yet heard of this great abstract strategy board game - Kamisado?! Fun, not just a brain-bender.
[A] One game takes about 10-18 minutes. Usually people play best 2-of-3.
[B] Base game rules are very simple.
[C] Elegant, clever concept.
[D] Visually appealing, albeit a bit busy.
HOW PLAYED:
A chess board has 64 squares, divided among two colors (white-ish and black-ish). Kamisado has 64 squares divided among eight colors, eight colors strategically located that look randomly located.
Both Kamisado players have eight pieces called "towers". One player gets the white towers, the other player gets the black towers. However...
...each white tower has a colored top. No two white towers have the same color for their tops. Crucially these top colors match the eight square colors! (Same situation for black towers, of course.)
Players alternate turns. Each turn is the movement of one the player's own towers.
Towers move forward only; never sideways nor backwards. Towers move only in straight lines, like a queen in chess (along columns or diagonals). Towers can move one or more squares per move, but towers can never jump any other piece.
THE TRICK: If White's tower lands on a green square, then for Black's turn Black must move the black tower that has the green top!! (Same restriction for White's turn, of course.)
THE GOAL: Simply advance any of your towers to your opponent's back row (empty) squares. Like getting a "king" in checkers.
The designer of this game, Peter John Burley, had a deep understanding of what he was doing when he designed this game. Leave the pieces in the box and study the board, lots of good reasoning went into it.
The type of strategy in this game is a fun kind for the human mind. At gatherings I find people prefer Kamisado over other great games such as Quoridor, Khet, Twixt, and Quarto.
How has such a great game remained mostly a secret unknown?

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Kamisado is a game of pure skill and strategy! There are no dice, cards or any other chance element. It's just you against your opponent! The aim in each round is to be the first to get an octagonal 'dragon tower' to the opposite side of the board, by moving the towers in straight lines, either forwards or diagonally forwards. It sounds easy doesn't it, but the twist is that you can only move a tower if its color matches the color of the square that your opponent last moved to. Also, you will find that the routes you want to use are blocked by enemy towers (and sometimes your own!). As the game unfolds, your towers will be promoted to 'Sumos', and will have the ability to push your opponents pieces backwards, earning you extra turns. The situations continue to become more complex and challenging, until one player accumulates the required winning total and can be declared a 'Kamisado Grand Master' - until the next game!

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Monkey Lab Review

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(More customer reviews)I'll leave out all of the possible bad puns. The theme is each player plays a monkey, trying to free other lab monkeys from the lab building. You move around several rooms, collecting objects to help unlock cages and free the other monkeys. You get points, which vary in quantity, depending on how hard it is to unlock the cage. See another monkey carrying something useful to them or to you? You might be able to attack them, monkey style, make them drop it, and move them to a far-away room. Or play a card that allows you to steal the item. This is fun when the other player is near to their goal. You also have to contend with a bumbling security guard named Murray. He moves around when a guard card is played, and he slows you down as you spend time hiding in a room if he is there.
There is a board consisting of 4 double sides pieces, which can be arranged at random to create a few different floor designs. Rooms have doorways that you must move through to get to other rooms. There are tokens for cages, placed randomly in rooms at the beginning, which have to be revealed as a game action. Then the requirements to unlock it are known to all, and the race is on to acquire the right objects. Object tokens are also placed randomly, face-up, in the rooms before the game. You also get a deck of cards, which allow such actions as extra moves, stealing, moving objects between rooms, and moving the guard to any room. Each turn you get to use a maximum of 3 actions, from a choice of 6, in any order and frequency you like. There is a handy reference card for each player. You also get some rubber/plastic monkeys and a guard figure.
I received this game as a gift and thought it looked pretty silly, but it is great. Strategy and planning are required, as you try to get the most valuable cages opened before anyone else. You will have to use your human brain, but you also get to reach back to your primitive side and resort to monkey violence when strategy isn't working. I've played with only 2 players so far, and it is just fine that way. I'm sure that 3 or 4 would be even better. If you don't enjoy interactive confrontational games, avoid the monkey games. Monkeys don't play well together. Gaining a victory in a peaceful manner is admirable. Winning by being sneaky and using brute force is fun. Do you want to be admired, or have fun? We're talking monkeys here. What do you think the answer is?

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Monkey Lab is a strategic fast and cunning game for the primate in all of us. Roam the halls of a testing facility prying cracking and smashing open cages of lab monkeys while you dodge the guard. Use teamwork guile and strategy to save your fellow simians from the Monkey Lab! Rescue the most to be the victor in this game of monkey mayhem!

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Pirate's Cove Review

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(More customer reviews)We have played this game for two years now. Our 7 year old and 9 year old love it. We find it has enough competition to keep it interesting and fun without stomping on each other completely. We would recommend it for sure!

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Come aboard and sail to Pirate's Cove, the legendary hideaway of thieving pirates and cutthroat buccaneers. The tales of those legendary pirates of old who've fought and survived these mysterious waters still haunt all those who yearn for a lift at sea. Armed with a secret map and starting with a modestly outfitted sloop salvaged from last winter's storm, you set sail to Pirate's Cove --your eyes filled with visions of treasure and fame, your lungs filled with the salty air of the High Seas. Your objective: to battle for the rights to plunder and become the most famed and feared Pirate the world has ever seen. To do so, you will need to navigate shrewdly, fight recklessly and pillage mercilessly. You will gain fame by winning battles, burying gold and treasure, and bragging about your exploits at the Tavern. At the end of twelve months, the pirate with the most fame will be declared the most fearsome Pirate of the High Seas!

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Infection Review

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(More customer reviews)I love this game. We just got it from Goodwill, and me and my sister played it tonight (my sister is 15.) We loved it! But the board was hard to look at and find stuff. This is an awesome game! BTW The ages are 9 to 90 LOL but anyone can play it! Buy this game and you'll adore it. I think it's funny how they have ones like 'the kissing disease" and funny ones that you'll be astonished that you got! :) Great game!

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This is a fun educational board game for Doctors, Nurses, Medical Students, Health and Science Teachers, Hypochondriacs, and anyone else with an interest in the medical condition.

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Bootleggers Review

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(More customer reviews)Eagle Games' "Bootleggers" is an area control, economic engine board game set in the era of prohibition. Designed by the same team that brought you "Kayak Chaos" (Don Beyer, Ray Eifler and Steve Gross), Bootleggers pits players against one another in an attempt to generate the most money off the sales of alcohol.
There are six phases in each turn. The game repeats these phases in order until someone has acquired enough money to win. Players play "muscle" cards. The player who spends the most value in muscle gets to play first. Players may claim more "boys" which allow them to control a speakeasy. Players may claim a truck so they can ship their moonshine. Or players may take an upgrade--something that usually improves their stills production or improves a speakeasy's consumption.
The game has lots of neat bits. There are different colored armies for each player. Each soldier, if you will, is a 20's era gangster with a suit, tie and tommy gun. Players will place these boys on one of the speakeasies. Once enough boys are on a speakeasy space, that speakeasy is open for business, ie, you may sell your moonshine there. The player who has the most boys on that speakeasy gets the profits from it.
Stills produce crates of moonshine (little wooden cubes). You roll a couple of dice for how much production you will obtain. With the right upgrades, you can roll several dice instead.
There are several plastic trucks that can actually hold the moonshine crates. You will need to manage your shipping constraint if you want to maximize your profits.
After production of moonshine, players are free to wheel and deal. If you have too much moonshine but not enough trucks, sell off your extra moonshine to one of your opponents. If you have first dibs on a speakeasy because you control it, convince your opponents to sell their excess stock to you or they will not be allowed to sell their wares.
The g-men are on your trail. Starting on game turn 4, the police figure is placed on the player with the highest still production. The police can shut you down for a turn so you really want to keep the heat off of you.
The game continues until a player accumulates $100,000. The player with the most money is declared the winner.
Bootleggers is a fun game. I didn't think I would like it because I'm not big on the theme (20's era gangster). But it's actually a very fun game. In fact, I really really love the theme! There are a couple of caveats however. This is not a gateway game. It's a bit complicated for the nongamer. And there is a lot of randomness. For a game of its length, Bootleggers has too much randomness. The dice determine production and consumption. This could make the game feel like a 2 hour event that really boils down to one final dice roll. Other than the randomness factor, I recommend Bootleggers to any serious board gamer. Even if you don't like the theme, give it a try!

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Contents include one game board, six family still mini-boards, six remote still locations mini-boards, one cop miniature, 12 speakeasy improvement markers, 12 small trucks, five medium trucks, three large trucks, 120 influence markers, 80 men of action cards, 14 truck cards, 72 muscle cards, 70 whiskey bottles (cubes), play money, and 25 dice.

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Tiki Topple Review

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(More customer reviews)Played this game with my 9 year old nephew on Christmas. Very enjoyable. Good educational game as it makes you think before moving game pieces. Takes approx 15-20 minutes per game.

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How to Play: Welcome to Tiki Island, home to nine colorful carvings all competing to be the top Polynesian Idol! In this fast-paced strategy game, try to maneuver your secret tikis to the top of the line by playing the right combination of action cards. Use a Tiki Up card to move a tiki ahead in line. Tiki Topple sends opponents' tikis tumbling to the back of the pack. But watch out for the sneaky Tiki Toast cards, which knock your tikis off the board! Score the most points and call yourself the Tiki Master.About This Game: If one were to judge a game strictly by its looks, Tiki Topple would certainly come out on top in our book. From the unique set of colorful carved tiki pieces to the rich illustrations, this is one of the most beautiful games we've ever produced. Yet what really makes this game shine is that, along side the gorgeous graphics, stands a game design that is equal in richness and elegance. As with all of our favorite games, Tiki Topple is simple to learn while offering a challenge every time it's played.

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Ubongo: Duel Review

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(More customer reviews)My husband and I both like to play Euro style boardgames and this was a pleasant little surprise. For a game designed for two players it offers a lot of durable exciting game play. The best way to describe it is something like tetris. There is a design that each player races to complete using only a certain number of select pieces. The person who completes it first shouts "Ubongo" and advances their idol. The first one to reach the end wins! We like the 4 player version of this game too, but it's nice to have a smaller (portable) version for when it is just the two of us. We've taken this game out with us on date nights and played while waiting for dinner.
I like that you can play the boards over and over without memorizing how to place the pieces. This is especially true is you take a break from the game for awhile before playing it again. Setup is simple, rules are easy, game play is swift and you don't have to be a strategic genius to play it. If you're looking for a fun game to introduce your wife into Euro style games I'd recommend this one 100%.

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Now, Ubongo goes two-player!Each player tries to solve the same puzzle with the same tiles faster than his opponent. The first one gets a point. The game ends after 9 rounds (max.) or as soon as one player has reached 5 points.

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Gold Digger Game Review

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(More customer reviews)So, it isn't the 1800's anymore. You probably don't even spend hours a day in the mountains with a pick axe and dirt sifter trying to find your fortune. No need to worry though, you can get a glimpse of the excitement of the gold rush with the Out of the Box Games creation GOLD DIGGER.
Game Summary: Stake your claims to six different gold mines as 30 whimsical wild west characters (such as Daniel Boom and Daisy Crocket) while you and your opponents decide how much gold each mine will contain. As always, the player with the most gold at the end of the game wins.
Game Play: The directions are very straightforward with a minimal number of rules to remember. It shouldn't take anymore than 10 minutes to get started after opening the box. GOLD DIGGER is essentially a card game in which each player is dealt 3 cards at random from a 60 card deck. Cards are either character cards which correspond in color to one of six gold mines to which they may stake a claim, or gold cards which represent variable amounts of gold (including Fool's Gold which is worth 0 bags of gold) that are strategically placed inside each mine. The game set-up also includes 2 small game boards which each have 3 mines by which characters and gold cards are placed. Each player may only play one of their cards per turn and then must draw another card from the deck until all 60 cards are used.
Strategy: There is a surprising amount of forethought involved in each move for those who wish to be master of the mines. Multiple claim staking and the luck of the draw make for endless possibilities. You decide whether you should stake a claim to an empty mine or maybe lure your opponents to a mine that you will fill with fool's gold (after all, once a claim is staked it can't be moved). GOLD DIGGER is highly recommended for all those family night gamers whose young prospectors are ready for a challenge. Even those who are more experienced enjoy games like GOLD DIGGER that engage us with their simplicity and entertain us with their unique style.


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Gold Digger sets anxious prospectors on a quest to find their fortunes in gold. Picking the claims that will yield a cornucopia of riches ... but beware of fool's gold! The player that outwits all of the others, wins!Originally published as Goldrausch, it was republished in 2002 as Gold Digger by Out of the Box.Tactic re-published the game as Wapi, with a Native American re-theming (Wapi is apparently Cree for "the lucky one"). Rather than staking claims to mines, the game was now about dividing a hoard of silver. This edition is a de-luxe treatment with a board and plastic totems with which to make claims.

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The Haunting House Review

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(More customer reviews)This is pretty easy to learn how to play but can take a bit to get to the end. You can control how fast to end the game because you get to change where the exit goes! Everyone seems to Laugh a lot when playing this game. It is not a cut throat type game so makes it nice for younger people as well as the older ones too!

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The Haunting House is a wildly fun, fast paced, strategy boardgame with a twist. The object is simple: players enter the front door and race to be the first to reach the exit. It's not as easy as it sounds. Half the time the players choose their own path. The other half their paths are chosen randomly by opponents. Additionally, the board elements constantly change as the game progresses. This game is for 2 to 6 players and the average playing time is 30 minutes. This game was designed by Kerry Breitenstein with all new art by David Aikins.

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Airships Review

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(More customer reviews)This is not a hard game to learn, rules are well written with examples. My 13 year old daughter, and even 8 year old can play it competitively. If all you know if Life, Sorry or Monopoly, then you need to step up and try a wider variety of games. The game lasts under half hour and has some strategy and luck with it. You are basically trying to win by gaining the most victory points. You do that by upgrading your airship with improved cards. These cards that you play on your board give you the ability to roll certain dice, white, black or red dice. The better your cards, the better your dice, the more likelihood you have of getting the cards with the bonus points on them. That isn't a total picture of the game, but a very basic outline.
You can read more about it at other game sites.

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These airships are majestic as they rise to the heavens. It took a long time before the work on these giants could begin. Engineers had to be employed, a hangar built, materials procured and sponsors found. At last the day has arrived and a giant airship starts its maiden flight towards the horizon.

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Zooloretto: XXL Review

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(More customer reviews)Easy to pick up and learn right away. No complex rules. Get the expansion and Aquaretto too--the more pieces, the merrier!

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The zoo grows and prospers: new animals are added regularly and the animals provide offspring from time to time. But what if space becomes limited in the zoo?Those who know other zoo managers find it useful to send some of their animals to other zoos. Of course, the new zoos like the additions and reward those who sent them.

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Metropolys Review

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(More customer reviews)This game takes a little bit of strategy to play. You can only play with four players. Overall, it's a very fun game.

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The awe-inspiring Metropolys is in effervescence! Talented Urban planners and architects rival each other to make luxury, elegant buildings of glass and steel defying the laws of balance grow from the ground. Who will eventually impose their style to leave an indelible trail in the history of the city? The answer is in your hands! The players are urban planners in quest of prestige. Over the course of the game, they try to construct their buildings in the best places. As soon as a player has placed all of their buildings, the game ends. The player with the most prestige is the winner.

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MAG BLAST THIRD EDITION GAME Review

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(More customer reviews)Mag Blast is the best table top game I have ever played! It's a space combat card game, but unlike other card games all you will ever need to play is in this box. Each player chooses an alien race with a specific ability. Cards are dealt and galactic mayhem begins!
Basically, the object of the game is to defend your flagship while trying to destroy your opponent's flagship. Surrounding your flagship are smaller spaceships that do combat with your enemy's fleet. By placing a card, you can shoot lasers of various destructive powers, launch fighters and bombers, repair your damaged fleet, lay a mine field, pirate your enemy's ships and even call in reinforcements. The artwork on the cards are really cool to look at too!
The action is fast, fun and furious!!! The game is easy to learn and can be played in less than a half hour. The game is awesome and addictive, I find myself thinking about it in my mind when it's been awhile since I've last played it. Overall, I can't think of a better gift to be found under a sci-fi gamer's Christmas tree!

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The time for talk has passed - and Mag Blasts speak louder than words! Mag Blast is a game of screaming space battles, where 2-8 players take command of a fleet of Scouts, Gunships, Dreadnaughts, Destroyers, and even more frightening ships in an effort to blow up their opponent's fleet of Scouts, Gunships - you get the idea. Featuring Fantasy Flight Game's patented "Make a Silly Noise or Miss" Blast Targeting System, Mag*Blast packs more laughs per square inch than any other starfleet-battling ship-exploding science-fiction card game named Mag*Blast on the market! Mag*Blast 3rd Edition features brand new artwork by renowned cartoonist John Kovalic, as well as new action cards and direct hit effects, streamlined rules, and ten all-new races.

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Shootin' Ladders: Frag Fest Review

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(More customer reviews)This game is amazing. I bought it simply because it looked amusing, and the replayability and overall enjoyment has been great. Everything from shooting at your friends gingerbread men to getting to yell "Rip it off!!" as their characters lose body parts and you get to keep them as trophies. I would say this game is for people thirteen and up, as some of the rules take a little thought. There are several different ways to play the game including capture the flag, teams, and free for all. All of them are fun and they help keep the game fun after a few plays.

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Another Good Game Gone Bad...The Gingerbread men have left the confines of their sugar-frosted land and let their rage spill over into yet another family-favorite board game, where total carnage has its 'ups and downs'.The board's original slides and ladders once helped teach kids about morality. But in SHOOTIN' LADDERS: Frag Fest, you'll more likely learn a lesson in 'mortality' and that everyone gets their just desserts.So sling your M&M16, load your Dessert Eagle and get ready to blast the other cookies to bits as you climb and slide your way to victory!Okay, that's what it says on the box... what's it really like?If you liked tearing the limbs off cookies in Run for Your Life, Candyman!, meet its big brother. This game is not just one game, it is a collection of 7 Action-Packed Scenarios with both Team Play and Free-for-all Modes.Yep. Form teams and try your hand at Candyman Flag Capture or play a round of Head Hunter where the goal is to take all the other team's heads before they can nab yours. There is a sniper scenario where it is a whole squad against one cookie, last man standing scenarios and a scenario called Trophy Room where the cookie who collects the most body parts wins. Some scenarios have respawns - but all have body parts flying like never before as you roll as many as 12 dice of damage on opponents with a Gatling Gumdrop or Bigg Redd.Plus, the game supports 8 players. New cookie characters, GInger Joe and Sgt Rockk Candy, join Bitey, Stinky, Mr Crumbles and the rest of your favorites with all new, fun token images. Weapons come with ammo counters to keep track of your shots and can be reloaded with Ammo cards, plus there is Gear aplenty - everything from Kevlar Icing to C4reo charges. This box is chock full of mayhem - and fully customizable for your own scenarios.Here. just look at the back of the box... What's not to love?

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Sumo Ham Slam Review

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(More customer reviews)Purchased this game for the Grandchildren, but they have to "wrestle" their parents for a turn. Really 4 can play so they do learn to share. Teaches a little patience and strategy but is easy to learn and loads of fun.
Showed it to the Children librarians and they laughed their heads off while challenging each other- enough said.

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Step into the ring and get your wrestle on with four famous heavyweight hamster Sumo in Sumo Ham Slam! Using a magnetic wand, maneuver your Sumo hamster in a furry and fierce full-contact match to knock your opponent straight out of the ring. Train your hamsters by feeding them pellets between rounds to add weight and give them an edge. The first Sumo to knock his rodent opponent out of the wrestling ring 5 times wins the title of Sumo Ham Slam Grand Champ!
Contents of Sumo Ham Slam:
1 Elevated Game Board
1 Custom Die
2 Magnetic Wands
4 Sumo Hamsters
4 Scoring Pegs
40 Food Tokens
Rules of Play in English and Spanish

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Quests of the Roundtable Review

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(More customer reviews)I love playing Quests because it is a great mood-maker. It brings you into the romantic, daring age of chivalry and knights... ladies and dragons... One can learn how to play in only a few minutes, and then move on the enjoy the beautiful artwork on the cards. It is like a smooth combination of poker-style card playing and dungeons and dragons-style role-taking It finishes up nice and quickly too - so you have the option of playing another game or moving on. We played with adult and young together, and everybody had fun. Great value for the price. END

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