Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Create your very own escape room experience with a series of puzzles/challenges and real locks in your very own home with this Epic Escapes box! This Epic Escapes box does not contain any board or numbered cards, unlike other escape games. Inside the box, it is packed with codes, hidden messages and clues as well as physical props and gadgets, including real lock boxes and padlocks!
Taskmaster is a popular entertainment show hosted by the mountainous Greg Davies and his assistant Little Alex Horne. Now you can play this game in the comfort of your own home, with exclusive video tasks from Alex Horne as your final task! This game is suitable for aged eight and above, with three to five players (If you have more than four, you can team up and adapt the rules).
Welcome to Richard Osman’s House of Games show! This game is based on the hit BBC2 show hosted by Richard Osman since 2017. In the show, each week, a group of four celebrities compete against each other and work as a team to test their knowledge in a series of questions to win points throughout the week. The winner will be crowned at the end of the week.
Forbidden Island game is a co-operative game of strategy and team building to collect four sacred treasures from the ruins of this perilous paradise and lift off the Forbidden Island before you get swallowed into the watery abyss! This is one of the few strategy games where you all have to work as a team to complete the adventure.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube, Marvin’s Magic partnered with Rubik’s to create this truly amazing box of tricks set! Mr K has loved magic tricks since young and is also a big fan of Rubik’s so the combination is just a marriage made in heaven! He loves it.
Chorus Worldwide presents When the Past was Around, a whimsical point-and-click puzzle video game that tells a bittersweet tale between an aspiring violinist named Eda and her lover The Owl in a surreal world consisting of disjointed rooms of memories and time. Through this short silent narrative adventure, you experience their love, grief and how she moves on. This game is available to buy now on PC, Steam, PS4, Xbox One and Switch. I am delighted to receive a free code to play this game on the Nintendo Switch. This is a single player game that will take less than two hours to complete.
Conservation Crisis is a strategy board game where players take control of a wildlife reserve in crisis and help to save an endangered species. It is suitable for aged seven and above, and for two to four players.
This board game is very unique and educational. My family learned a lot through this game in helping to understand the current situation that many endangered species are facing.
Twitter party alert! You are all invited to the DC Batman Twitter Party which will be on Tuesday 10th November from 6 to 7 pm! So remember to save the date and make yourself available!
To coincide with World Fitness Day, we were gifted this brand new Pose Off from Ideal Games to get us moving and thinking. This game is fun to play by getting players to pose while answering challenge questions. This game is suitable for ages four and above. It is for two or more players and it’s a great game to get everyone involved!
Pandemic Hot Zone North America game is a co-operative game of strategy and team building to stop the three deadly viruses from spreading all over the world! This is not the first time we have come across the Pandemic genre by Z-Man games. We have previously reviewed the Pandemic game and the game is unique and fun as you are not working alone to fight against the virus. Just wondering if Trump had played this game before, he might be able to deal with the current pandemic in a better way!
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is such a simple yet fun snap game that is suitable for everyone aged eight and above! This addictive game might look small in a cute pink box, but it is one of the craziest games we have played for a long time!
Just One is a simple, yet challenging co-operative word game where everyone uses just one word each to win the game! This game even won the 2019 Spiel des Jahres, Germany’s game of the year award, which is intended to highlight an outstanding design that would be ideal for German families! It is suitable for three to seven players, and from age eight onwards.
Game of HAM is a competitive adult party card game that is hilarious fun and on the ‘dark’ side! This game has to be played with at least three players to a maximum of 15 from aged 18 onwards. A unique selling point for this game is that you can keep expanding the game by creating, sharing and printing content to add to your games via their web community (coming soon).
Thinking of going away and need a last-minute travel game to bring along? Why not try out this Quirk card game by Gibsons? This is a fun family card game which is suitable for aged five and above. It is for two to six players.
Pass the Bomb – The Big One is a brand new family board game by Gibsons which contains 5 different challenges that harness your brainpower and tests your skills! This game is for two to eight players and suitable for aged eight and above.
Inside this eye-catching square box, it comes with one electronic timer (red time-bomb), 165 cards, four printed puzzle tiles, one game board, eight wooden playing pieces, one cup, one wooden ball and one special die. The time-bomb requires two AAA batteries which are not included. It does not have an on/off button and there is only one button to activate the timer. The timing is random and can go off any time between 10-60 seconds!
