There's nothing better than a board game to break up the monotony of a weekend indoors or a family gathering, but Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit get old after
This boardgame can be used either as a warm-up activity or as a winding-up one while talking about family. The questions are supposed to encourage students to discuss family matters. Each question should be followed by more questions asked by students. - ESL worksheets
From war to strategy to party games, we found the seven best board games created in the last five years.
Not for the easily offended! Aggravation is all about well aggravating your opponent to ensure they don’t win. Learn how to play with our guide.
2015 was a great year for boardgames, with more variety in styles than in previous years. Our boardgame critic Keith Law ranks his favorites of the year.
A guided speaking activity about activities and future wishes. Students learn to ask and answer question about activities they like doing, things they like in general and about things they would like to do in the future. - ESL worksheets
A hidden sarcophagus, digital dice, mummy voice over, and desert sound effects. This board game looks like it's fun and educational.
Make your own board games using these blank template versions of popular games.
We all know the challenge of running a game night with a large group and waiting for one game to end, so we can change who we're playing with. The Falling card game solves that problem. The game will end in five minutes, and it accommodates a large number of people. You need this game in your stash.
About Unboxed An in-depth exploration of the experience of playing board games and how game designers shape that experience. In Unboxed , Gordon Calleja explores the experience of playing board games and how game designers shape that experience. Calleja examines key aspects of board game experience—the nature of play, attention, rules, sociality, imagination, narrative, materiality, and immersion—to offer a theory of board game experience and a model for understanding game involvement that is relevant to the analysis, criticism, and design of board games. Drawing on interviews with thirty-two leading board game designers and critics, Calleja—himself a board game designer—provides the set of conceptual tools that board game design has thus far lacked. After considering different conceptions of play, Calleja discusses the nature and role of attention and goes on to outline the key forms of involvement that make up the board game playing experience. In subsequent chapters, Calleja explores each of these forms of involvement, considering both the experience itself and the design considerations that bring it into being. Calleja brings this analysis together in a chapter that maps how these forms of involvement come together in the moment of gameplay, and how their combination shapes the flow of player affect. By tracing the processes by which players experience these moments of rule-mediated, imagination-fueled sociality, Calleja helps us understand the richness of the gameplay experience packed into the humble board game box.
Are you going to be stuck inside for an extended period of time? That sounds like the perfect chance to play some board games! Here are over thirty boardgame recommendations for when you have lots of time on your hands.
How a game works isn't always immediately clear, but you can say a lot about what the players will feel like by giving them at-a-glance information through visual communication
Games that bring the whole family together through strategic thinking and planning, creative storytelling, and social deduction.
Can board games increase the student’s willingness to learn philosophy? They might have helped me consider Philosophy differently when I was in High School 😊.…
Quarto Game: This is a boardgame that I did not invent : it was created by a mathematician called Blaise Müller and is now commercialised under the name "Quarto". I decided it would be fun to make one myself... And I will show you how I did it. But, first, you …
Mancala is a historical board game that can be confusing at first glance. But don't worry, we can help with our in-depth Mancala board game guide.
What we really love collecting now are games that introduce strategy and decision making in a bite-size, family-friendly format. Very recently we’ve added a new board game to our collection that fits this description perfectly. Its name is Honga. Read More
Here we take a look at Pandemic: Rising Tide, an upcoming cooperative board game from Matt Leacock, Jeroen Doumen, and Z-Man Games!
Vintage game, date and designer unknown.
During the dark days of the Second World War, British children passed the time with marbles, hopscotch, tiddlywinks and, for a lucky few, a Monopoly set. But over in Germany, the amusements were far less innocent with German children playing at bombing us
Kiddo has declared Skip-bo to be one of his favorite games. It uses strategic thinking but in order to win you need to keep your powers of observation well tuned. Skip-bo is a classic card
Hues and Cues is a super colorful game that has players giving cues and trying to guess the correct hue from among the 480 on the board.
