Take a new turn on fun with terrific board games. Everyone will want to gather around the table for navigating fun, murder mysteries and sea navigation. A good old fashioned way to have family and friends time with a modern twist. Seemingly so realistic the game comes to life, using your strategy to bring challenges to your opponents.

There are numerous games to choose from depending on your choice of game, each comes with a detailed rule book, agame board, markers, cards, tokens, place cards, some come with wooden buildings, CD’s, and pawns. Each game will specify the game pieces included as well as the appropriate age for playing.

Full color details and hours of adventure. Many themes available, from strategy to horror. Even a Murder Mystery complete with menu’s.

“Arkham Horror” offers a frightful adventure, you will portray an investigator from the 1900′s whom must round up all the monsterous creatures that have invaded the city.if you are familiar with the work of writer, H. P. Lovecraft Arkham is very similar to the style. Definitely buy this board game to add to your collection.

A new game that offers optimal fun is the “Navagador”, Enjoy creating new colonies with this exciting strategy game.

Exploration will take you from Brazil all the way to Japan. Traveling in the fifteenth century portraying a trade dynasty of Portugal. You won’t want to miss gathering around the table for this as you build factories, trade some exotic imports and run your ship at your rivals expense. 12 plus is recommended to enjoy this seaworthy adventure.  Read more... (409 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

With an international hit like The Settlers of Catan board game, it is easy to look at Klaus Teuber as a success story. He creates a game for his family and it goes on to sell millions! In addition, he has created other games that have won prestigious gaming awards. In the face of such brilliant achievement, many budding game authors feel disheartened. How can they come up with a successful game?

Thomas Edison did not create the light bulb on the first try and Teuber is no different. For every game that goes on to be published, he has many more that remain prototypes or designs that never make it past his workshop. But he has learned to never give up, and that dedication is a huge factor in his success today.

One illustration of Teuber’s dedication comes from his work with a game that didn’t seem to take. Teuber had designed a game based on the adventures of Asterix and Obelix (two characters from a popular French comic book). He carefully created a board and cards by hand and submitted the prototype to the Ravensburger company. After their rejection, he redesigned the game with a theme of knights and dragons. It was rejected again. Teuber decided the game was not worth pursuing. Five years later, the Goldsieber company commissioned a game and Teuber remembered the prototype. He pulled it out and with input from his editing team he retooled it as squirrels hunting for hazelnuts. The game was well received and won the German Award for Children’s Games in 1997.  Read more... (1122 words, 1 image, estimated 4:29 mins reading time)

Manage a harbor, build ships and construct buildings in your bid to become the merchant with the most power and the largest fortune in Le Havre, the construction and economic strategy board game. Take control of resources, process them, sell them, and turn them into food to feed your hungry workers. Construct or buy up buildings like the bank and the art center, or ships like the luxury liner to prove that you are the master of Le Havre!

Le Havre is a construction strategy game with an economic theme designed by Uwe Rosenberg, the designer of other hit board games such as Agricola and At the Gates of Loyang. The game concepts are similar to Agricola, with the focus on obtaining and processing resources in order to feed your workers and construct buildings. The goal is also similar, that is to become the player with the strongest economic presence.

The setting of Le Havre is the port city of the same name located at the mouth of the river Seine on the northern coast of France, set during the Industrial Age. Your objective is to become the richest merchant in the city, and you do that by ending the game with the most cash. This can be obtained via a number of strategies, either by collecting and processing resources, shipping them off, building a merchant or luxury fleet, controlling local businesses, or any other strategy in between!  Read more... (938 words, 1 image, estimated 3:45 mins reading time)

Playing board games at home is a time honored tradition. Families gather around and compete in classics like Monopoly, Clue, Chute and ladders and Sorry. After a while buying all these games can start to add up. Toys are cheap and it can even be more rewarding, and fun, to make your own versions at home. You can personalize them for your family and add fun, unexpected twists to classics. Making your own board games at home does not require much in the way of materials and can be a great way to spend time together as a family. It is a great activity to get everyone’s creative juices flowing and is sure to end in many more game nights to come. Just follow these simple steps and get ready to host a game night!

1. First thing you need to decide are the ages that the games are intended for. Knowing who is going to play the game helps you determine the rules and design it as simple, or complex as you want. If you are designing for young children you do not want to include rules that involve any complex math or reading. You want to it to be easy to understand and fun. Same thing applies to adults playing the game. You want the rules to be a little more complex to keep it interesting and competitive.  Read more... (610 words, 1 image, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

Sometimes, when dedicated fans play a beloved game over and over again, they may start to grow a little weary of the same, traditional rules. They often look for new ways to play the game, either little ways to twist the rules, or a completely new approach to an already enjoyable game. Some of these alternate rules end up becoming rather popular and can give players completely new insights into the games that they already love.

One such game that was built out of alternate rules is Speed Scrabble. Abandoning the traditional board, Speed Scrabble plays out using all of the tiles from a traditional Scrabble set and works on the principle of players needing to use all of their tiles to build words as quickly as they can. 4 or 5 players are the ideal number for a Speed Scrabble game, for when it is considered that there are 100 tiles in a traditional Scrabble set, the number of tiles works out exactly so that each player will always have an equal number of tiles.  Read more... (535 words, 1 image, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)