Category: games
Taking better care of myself, evidently
It occurred to me that I’ve recently made a few changes that were explicitly, albeit perhaps uncharacteristically, for my own good. I hunted down a couple...
Isolation Day 698 Game: Pokémon
Pokémon is among the top few most popular collectible card games (CCGs) in the world. Collectible card games are ever-expanding collections of cards where playe...
Isolation Day 653 Game: Kids Against Maturity
A recent iteration in the fill-in-the-blanks card game genre, Kids Against Maturity is geared as a kid-friendly version of the insanely popular Cards Against Hu...
Isolation Day 651 Game: Uno Flip
Santa was kind to us this year. And among the games we got was a quick one called Uno Flip. A nice twist on the classic Uno card game, here the players use both...
Isolation Day 487 Game: Dominion
Tonight my wife and I finally introduced our daughter to a game we’ve long been big fans of. Dominion was the first game I’d ever played where playe...
Isolation Day 294 Game: Unstable Unicorns
Following the unprecedented Kickstarter campaign success with Exploding Kittens, the same crew published Unstable Unicorns. Here, each player is trying to build...
Isolation Day 282 Game: Scooby-Doo! Betrayal at Mystery Mansion
The latest in our growing collection of games originally for older players that have been geared down for kids is this Scooby-Doo-ized version of Betrayal at Ho...
Volume of work begets creativity
I realized ages ago that I come up with the bulk of my creative ideas while working on other material. Not as much sitting and staring out the window (though th...
Isolation Day 255 Games: Catan Junior, Seven Dragons, Fast Flip Pizza, Escalation!
It occurred to me today that these aren’t days of isolation, per se. When I first started the Isolation Games posts (way back on Day 12… remember th...