Basics of Board Games: Board games are a wonderful way to educate young children about language arts, communication, and early math abilities. But what exactly are board games, and how do we classify them? A Definition…
Deduction for social reasons
Around the table, one or more players hold a secret, and the rest of you must discover who it is! Expect a lot of lying, bluffing, and crazy allegations. Players are frequently assigned concealed roles…
Push-your-luck
Board games challenge you to take ever-greater risks to reap ever-greater benefits or choose to keep what you have before losing everything. Consider the blackjack game or whether or not to provide an ambiguous response…
Constructing a Deck
A board game in which the players use separate decks of cards to play, built ahead of time from a wide pool of alternatives and adhere to specified rules. Trading card games and collecting card…
Types of board games
Abstract Board games with no theme or a theme that is so divorced from the real experience of playing that it may as well not exist. Draughts and Go are the purest abstractions, although chess,…
Someone forgot to put a hole in my pool table!
Have you ever seen a pool table without pockets and wondered what to do with it? Find out some of the many board games that are played on tables without pockets. Now I have to admit…
Pool and game table from Croquet, can it be true?
Did you know that Shakespeare refers to billiards? Or did the English upper class play table tennis on their dining tables with improvised equipment? As humans, we have been very good at taking outdoor games and adapting…
Pool table game: Beyond 8-ball
When one usually thinks of a pool table, they think of the game 8-Ball pool. While this is undeniably the most popular of the many games to be played (at least in America), there are others…