2009

A detailed look at the rules for how to play Qwirkle Cubes a 2009 family dice tile placement board game published by MindWare.

A detailed look at the rules for how to play Pop for Sight Words a children’s educational board game published by Learning Resources.

Name 5’s title does a good job telling you what the game is about which is ultimately a solid little party trivia game that has some issues.

Despite its reliance on luck and its low amount of scoring, FITS is a great abstract tile placement game and possibly the best board game adaptation of Tetris ever made.

Jaipur may be a little overrated due to its reliance on luck, but it is still a great game that fans of set collecting games should really enjoy.

Duplicity has some interesting and unique ideas culminating in a genuinely surprising and intriguing ending which is unfortunately hampered by an occasionally slow and overly complicated plot.

The Game of Life: Extreme Reality takes the original Game of Life on a wild ride that barely differentiates it from the original game.

Six Shooter finds a way to combine Yahtzee and Bingo into a dice game that is better than I expected which unfortunately gets repetitive rather quickly.

A review of Mill Creek Entertainment’s release of Community: The Complete Series on Blu-ray, a nice value set for a truly great comedy series.

Unusual Suspects is a solid but unspectacular game that has some interesting mechanics but fails to do differentiate itself due to its high reliance on luck and lack of player control.