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Gibsons Rockpool Game Review

Rockpool is an educational game for children aged six and above. Players need to collect shells and clean up rubbish from the beach before the tide comes in! Do watch out as many cheeky creatures come to steal your shells!

This game comes in a cute shell-shaped box. There are 124 cards, a Rockpool board and instructions. It is for two to six players. Each player picks their own team (there are six teams and each has their own colours) and each team has five Child cards and one Dog card.

Gibsons Rockpool Game Review

Splash! Coiledspring Games review

Splash! from Coiledspring Games is a simple and fun family game. This is a great game for travel because of it’s compact nature or parties because it can be played with two to six players and for aged six and above.

This compact circular tin consists of 30 wooden pieces and 14 water drop tokens. I love that it is very easy to bring out to play and to tidy away.

Splash! Coiledspring Games review

Unlock! Secret Adventures Review

Unlock! Secret Adventures is the fourth Unlock! range by Space Cowboys we have reviewed and each game has continued to entertain us to the max! We love this range of adventure cooperative card games.

As a quick explanation to this card game, it follows a very similar format to those real escape rooms but here you can play in the comfort of your own home. The game requires players to cooperate to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles, in order to solve the puzzles before the timer runs out. There are three full one-hour scenarios in the box, as well as a 10 minute taster game to get the hang of how to play.

unlock secret adventures review

Unlock! Heroic Adventures Review

If you have read my previous post, you will have seen that we had just played the Unlock! Exotic Adventures game. This is another range of Unlock! adventure cooperative card games, which is called Unlock! Heroic Adventures.

This card game follows a very similar format to those real escape rooms but here you can play in the comfort of your own home. The game requires players to cooperate to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles, in order to solve the puzzles before the timer runs out. There are three full one-hour scenarios in the box, as well as a 10 minute taster game to get the hang of how to play.

unlock heroic adventures review

Pointz Review

Pointz is a game with a spin! Everyone will try to race against the spinner with game challenges that make you move, speak, act, think, look and react to win the point! The player with the most Pointz cards wins. It is for aged six and above. It is for two players or more.

pointz review & giveaway

Slam It Review

SLAM IT! is a fast and furious family or travel game that can be played from aged six and above. The aim of the game is to get rid of your cards. In this game, you count and if you make a mistake, hesitate too long, slam last or at the wrong time, you have to pick up all the cards that are played on the table.

slam it review & giveaway

World Tetris Day

Today is World Tetris Day and this year marks the 35th birthday of Tetris! To celebrate this fantastic day, we were sent John Adams’ Tetris Speed and the Tetris Dual to play with.

world tetris day

The Werewolves of Millers Hollow Review

The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow is a party card game that requires at least eight people to play with up to a maximum of 18 people. This party game comes in a very small box containing 24 square cards and instructions, which is suitable for aged 14 and above. If I was looking for party game ideas, this would be one of my choices! It is so fun and easy to play!

The Werewolves of Millers Hollow review

Love Letter Game Review

Love Letter is a simple card game for two to four players that involves risk, deduction and luck. This travel card game comes with 16 game cards, 13 tokens of affection, 4 reference cards, instructions and everything is contained in a small portable pouch for easy storage. It is for aged 10 and above.

love letter game review

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.

unlock escape adventure game review

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.

set game review

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.

who did it review

Exploding Kittens Review

I first came to learn about Exploding Kittens earlier this year through entering a drawing competition on Twitter and won the third prize! I won a hairy potato cat stuffed toy! It was then that I took interest to find out about the Exploding Kittens game!

exploding kittens review

Shit Happens Game Review

Shit Happens is an adult dilemma based card game where you need to rank all sorts of shit that happens in life according to their misery index. If you are able to line up 10 Shit Happens cards, you win the game! It is suitable for 18 and above, and for two to eight players.

shit happens game review

Quirky Card Game Review

Quirky is a quirky quiz card game, from Cheatwell Games, where you decide the answers! This game will cause debate amongst your opponents with this controversial game where no answers are supplied. It is suitable for aged 10 and above, for three or more players.

quirky game review

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