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...
Category: tabletop
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...
Isolation Day 174 Game: Pokémon TCG
My daughter has been expressing interest in playing the Pokémon TCG (Trading Card Game) off and on for years. Mostly on when I can’t play and mostly off w...
Lessons learned from children
There’s a lot that grown-ups can learn from kids. Yes, we have bills to pay and jobs to go to (or, even more stressful for many more these days, not), and...
Isolation Day 84 Game: Trivial Pursuit-Family Edition
The Family Edition of Trivial Pursuit is effectively the Junior version of the original game: Here, as you roll the die to move around the spoked wheel of the b...
From the mouths of babes
I’ve written previously about the importance, as I’ve been reminding myself, of finishing creative projects I start. There are times that it’s...
Isolation Day 64 Game: Lord of the Fries
In Lord of the Fries, players are employees at a chain of zombie-operated fast food restaurants. One menu from a variety is selected for all players to play fro...