Writer, Dabbler In Things
Following the unprecedented Kickstarter campaign success with Exploding Kittens, the same crew published Unstable Unicorns. Here, each player is trying to build up a “stable” of a winning number of unicorns and/or unicorn-type creatures from their hand–totalling either six or seven, depending on number of players–while trying to prevent others from doing the same. Each … Read more
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 House on the Hill. The original game has the players as a group of adventurers searching in and around an old mansion, revealing randomized, modular tiles and aspects to … Read more
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 that happens) and not as much while reading or seeing or hearing something (though that happens more), but far and away, the bulk of my … Read more
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 those crazy days when everything was weird and scary and toilet paper was bizarrely being hoarded but we figured if we all just did the right thing we’d … Read more
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 when I’m ready to try it out, or when we’ve brought it with us on a road trip to stay somewhere, or have watched videos on how … Read more
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 weighing the pros and cons of getting that root canal… there’s no end of big person responsibilities and issues on our minds. But too … Read more
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 board, every correct question–broken down into the same original coloured categories of Science & Nature, Entertainment, Sports & Leisure, etc.–gets you a coveted coloured pie wedge. … Read more
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 easy. (Hello, handful of haiku about some inspiring or topical experiences.) And there are times when it just isn’t going to happen, at least not in that form not now. (Hello, first novel … Read more
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 from, and players must use their dealt cards–a variety of simplified fast food components such as “Bun”, “Fries”, “Cow”, “Bird”, “Drink”, etc.–to piece together the food order … Read more
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/roof dividers, and they take turns laying a card on top of upright “walls”, a communal stack of squares folded in the middle to allow you … Read more