A Gnome's Ponderings

  My son and I recently sat down and tried out Blokus Junior. His real love is video games but we do get in the odd board game now and then....

When contemplating modern abstracts, two games that were huge for me and games I’m no longer that interested in are Hive and Blokus. Both of...

In earlier blog, I wrote that I consider Blokus to be an important game. It's a simple abstract with deep choices that's had real ma...

While the last twenty years have been boom years for European family games and American adventure games, they've also been good ones for...