A Gnome's Ponderings

  Using board games in the classroom is one of my dreams but it’s one that rarely pans out. In part because I want to use gamer games but al...

As I’m looking at games the next stages for our son’s gaming interests, I found myself looking again at Sequence. Sequence is a cross be...

Echidna Shuffle. It’s a kids game where the most adorable plastic echidnas ever haul bugs around a traffic roundabout. At its heart, the...

My birthday was over the weekend and, pretty much since the start of our courtship, Carrie has baked me a boardgame-themed cake. In the last...

The rules for Down, a tiny little nine-card game designed to be played in your hand (and one I know I’ll review sooner than later), includes...

Cheeky Monkey is not one of Reiner Knizia’s games. In fact, it wouldn’t make my top fifty Knizia games and might very well not make my top o...

Village Run is a simple little print-and-play game, a children’s race game that adds just a touch more depth than rolling and moving your pa...

Rat-a-Tat Cat has been my mind as of late. Part of that is because I saw some kids playing it at a recent gaming event. Part of it is becaus...

GenCan't Roll and Write Library - Canterpillar Feast  Okay. Let me get this out of the way. Canterpillar Feast uses the strategic bi...

R I have never played Racko and, thanks to the 10 Days series, I probably never will. The 10 Days games takes the sorting mechanic of Racko ...

We knew that Hungry Hungry Hippos was inevitable. We knew that there was no way for it to not end up in our house. Every time we saw in a st...

Our son has often wanted to play with Daddy's games, even though it makes Daddy turn pale and shake. At first, I just let him play with ...

While I appreciate Fluxx and I continue to play Fluxx, I haven't been inclined to buy a new version in quite a few years. It is interest...

I am a big fan of Bundle of Holding. For the last few years, I have bought quite a few different bundles. It has been a great source of Indy...

Years ago, I picked up a keychain version of Don't Spill the Beans on a road trip. Technically, it was fully playable but the tiny size ...