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...
Category: tabletop
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...
Isolation Day 63 Game: Rhino Hero
Rhino Hero is a fun, quick and unusual tabletop game, in that it stacks upward instead of spreading out on a table. Players are dealt cards that act as ceiling/...
Isolation Day 59 Games: Ticket To Ride-First Journey, Uno
Ticket To Ride-First Journey is the junior variation of the popular Ticket To Ride game. As in the original, players must make various lengths of train route co...
Isolation Day 57 Games: Wild Kratts Race Around The World, Catan Junior
Based on the (excellent) Wild Kratts television show, Race Around The World pits players as some of the show’s characters racing each other through four t...
Isolation Day 55 Game: Mysterium
A murder was committed in a local manor and a group of psychics has opted to visit the residence on Halloween to make contact with the restless spirit of the de...
Isolation Day 53 Game: Spy Alley
In Spy Alley, everyone is a randomly determined spy working for one of six countries. Each player knows who they are and what country they work for, but it̵...
Gamma testing a game
My daughter came up with a board game today. I can’t say how well thought-out it was before she drew it onto a large art book-sized page–she’s...