Game & Board Game

Guinness World Record Challenges Game Review

Guinness World Record Challenges puts players knowledge about Guinness World Records to the test and challenges opponents to demonstrate some record-breaking skills using everyday household items! Are you brave enough to take up the challenge?

This board game is suitable for aged eight years and above, with two to five players. This game also requires you to provide your own household objects to play, like a smartphone, a 500ml bottle of water, socks, coins, paper clips, 5 pint glasses, A4 paper, teaspoons and a set of cards. Of course, if you are unable to get the items for your game, you can always pass the challenge card and get a new one.

7 Wonders Game Review

7 Wonders is a strategy game where you build your city by gather resources, develop commercial routes, and affirm your military supremacy to become one of the seven great cities of the Ancient World to win the game.

This award-winning game has been around since 2010 and has been loved by many gamers. It is for aged 10 & above, and for two to seven players. I think that this game is nicer to play with at least three players rather than just two. For two players, there is an official two-player variant included in the instructions on page 7.

iKNOW Family Game Review

Do you think you have what it takes to answer this family-friendly quiz questions? iKNOW Family is a brand new trivia game made from the well-known company, Tactic Games. This is a family quiz game that is suitable for aged 12 and above and for two to six players. It comes with 200 cards, a small square game board, 6 iKNOW tokens, 12 iBET tokens, 12 iBET discs plus 12 spares, 50 scoring chips (25 white and 25 black), 1 category transparent chip and instructions.

Unlock! Escape Adventures Review

Now you can create your own escape room experience in your very own home with this Unlock! Game from Space Cowboys. Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms which allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. This game is required to be played alongside the free Unlock! app via Google Play or App Store. Once downloaded, an internet connection is not required during gameplay. There are quite a few adventures listed on the app, so make sure you click the correct adventure which is the Escape Adventures for this occasion.

Century Spice Road Review

Century Spice Road is a strategy game where you take the role as a spice merchant in hopes of selling your spices at high prices and to amass the largest wealth. This game launched in 2017 so is quite a new game and is designed by Emerson Matsuuchi. This is the first in a series of games that explores the history of each century with spice-trading as the theme for the first instalment.

What’s that Smell Review

The highly anticipated What’s that Smell is a brand new fragrant-guessing party game from WowWee, that opens up a world of interesting whiffs. There are over 50+ smells from sweet to stinky smells for players to guess. This is a party game where a strong sense of smell can make you a winner. The game is for aged 14 and above, to play with two to six players or in teams.

Puzzle Wars Review

Puzzle Wars is a brand new strategy puzzle game launched by Tomy Toys. This mind challenging tabletop game that can be played head-to-head against a friend or on your own against the built-in timer. It is suitable for aged eight and above, and for one to two players.

Stupid Deaths Review

Stupid Deaths celebrates the stupidest deaths over the centuries. This hilarious game challenges players to identify if the death is true or a made up story. Sounds too easy? It’s actually harder than you think. As a matter of fact, many people did die in utterly ridiculous ways, so can you guess, if the stories are myths or facts before the Grim Reaper catches up with you!

Celebrating National Grandparents Day with John Adams

This Sunday 7^th October 2018 marks one of the most important days in our lives, for National Grandparents Day. We are celebrating this day with a selection of John Adams’ heritage games such as Rummikub, Triominos and Othello. These classic games are what our parents had played with us when we were younger.

Monopoly Cheaters Edition

Who doesn’t like to cheat? I love that Monopoly are always looking for ways to improve the game and this time, I think they have nailed it! I do occasionally “bend the rules” for myself during a Monopoly game. Why would I want to pay rent or lose the game to my children!

Anyway, this Monopoly Cheaters Edition gives you a licence to cheat! How awesome is that! I am very impressed with this game. But not all of my family members love it. Ms C didn’t like the idea of cheating!

Word Bandit Review

Word Bandit is a word-spotting board game that comes with an exciting wheel-spinning letter machine! This is a brain-teasing family-friendly game that is suitable for aged eight and above, and for two teams of any number.

Inside this box, it comes with a Word Bandit machine, playing board, two playing pieces, sand timer, sticker sheet and instructions. It requires minimal assembly by sticking the stickers onto the Word Bandit machine which takes no time at all.

Little Dragons Café Review

Little Dragons Café is made by the same creator of Harvest Moon – Yasuhiro Wada, for PlayStation®4 and Nintendo Switch™. This is an adorable simulation single-player role-playing game that will be loved by many young children! In this game, you learn about harvesting crops, cooking food, raising your very own dragon and keeping your café alive!

In this game, you are pretty much doing the same routine over and over again, but Ms C loves it and hasn’t grown tired of it yet. Every day there is something new and a simple task for her to fulfil. She loves a straightforward game that does not offer too many challenging tasks.

SET Game Review

SET is a fast-thinking and challenging visual card game where players race to find as many sets as quickly as possible. It is suitable for aged six and above, for one to eight players.

Inside this box, there are 81 cards where each card contains four features: colour (red, purple or green), shape (oval, squiggle or diamond), number (one, two or three) and shading (solid, striped or outlined). Players have to identify three cards where each feature, when looked at individually, is either all the same OR all different.

Who Did It? Game Review

Who Did It is a simple, fast and fun card travel game where players race to get rid of their cards so that they can avoid the blame for owning the animal that pooped. This game is suitable for six year old & above, and for three to six players.

This card game comes in a compact magnet rectangular box. Inside the box, there are 36 cards (six animals in six colours), 13 poop tokens and instructions.

Red’s Kingdom on Nintendo Switch

Red’s Kingdom is a single-player adventure puzzle action game for all ages. This puzzle game was originally released on iOS devices only (not Android devices), but is now out on Nintendo Switch™ via Nintendo eShop, with an RRP of £8.99.

This is a great news for Nintendo Switch fans, as you can play it on the go. This game is cleverly designed, packed full of puzzles to solve and it is the type of game Mr K loves. The levels are challenging but nicely balanced in that they’re not too easy and not too tough. Some of them require a bit more thought though and planning for up to five moves ahead.