A Gnome's Ponderings
Sunday, June 5, 2016
TKO - a light boxing game that still delivers
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TKO was one of the surprises for me in the pack of games. I was interested in trying it out but I had very low expectations for the game. Af...
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Shut the Box as a piece of history
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I have read that Shut the Box started out as a game that fisherman would play when they were out on the ocean, back in the 1700s. There is e...
Yahtzee as a system
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Yahtzee is one of those games that is both so easy to scorn and to appreciate. Everyone has heard of it, including folks who have never hear...
Thursday, June 2, 2016
We end up liking Shimmer and Shine, despite ourselves
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Last August, Nick Jr. gave us Shimmer and Shine, a cartoon about two genies in training and the hijinks they got into. When we first watched...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Outlaw - a super easy game to make yourself
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Outlaw is a tiny little dice game that feels like a simplified version of Knizia's Pickomino with a bit of Sackson's Can't Stop ...
Dot and Tot of Merryland - too sweet for words
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Dot and Tot of Merryland is easily my least favorite fantasy novel by L. Frank Baum. Let me get that out of the way at the start. I don'...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Taking flight with Lady Blackbird
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Lady Blackbird is the story of a noble woman searching for true love in an endless blue sky of shattered worlds. It's also a role playin...
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