Good Board Games

Spacewalk  is an older game, that has been used as an educational supplement game in the STEM system. Game play is similar to a version of mancala, the stone moving game into your home goal. Unlike mancala, you want to avoid your ships falling into one of three black holes. To play, each player (2-5 can enjoy this one) receives 3 ships of three different sizes, 9 in total. Players go around in a clockwise motion and place their ships one by one in turn order until each is placed. The game's objective is somewhat battle royal, where you're trying to be the last ship standing. Ships are eliminated from play as they enter a black hole, and cleverly the game board and box is designed so that you put the game away as you play it. On your turn you must move all ships on any one space that originally had one of your ships on it. You are allowed to move your opponents ships as well, but only if they're on the same initial space. Your goal is to try to put their ships into the b...

You read the title right, This game is called Bears Vs. Babies.   The game is the next in line from the producers of exploading kittens, and the gameplay is just as interesting as the furry box it comes in. You begin play by laying out the play mat and dealing out starting hands to each player. Then you work to build bears (and other monsters) one body part at a time until you feel you're ready to take on a baby army. There are three categories of these baby armies: land, air, and sea; each with coresponding bears and monsters color coded for batteling ease.  When someone is brave enough to provoke the baby army attack, any and all monsters enter the coresponding frey. An example of this is if the land babies are provoked then all land monsters (and wild card bears) enter the fight and the most powerful monster wins. This is of course only if the baby army numbers aren't superior, in which case there are no winners of that round and those babies are discarded, as the ...

So the new flagship game from  Dead Box Games  is Alestone. I was able to play this game at a nearby Cider/Wine establishment known as  Bent Ladder  located at the Rittman Orchards just north of Orrville Ohio, when its designer  Frank Tedeschi came to demo it.  A small note, Bent Ladder is a newer gaming friendly Cider/Wine house, and they host a tabletop game night the first Thursday of each month. AleStone is a game that was once never physically played, but was the "game within a game" as it was the game that characters played within a role playing game setting, but the game in now real, for 2/4 players to enjoy. Gameplay, is similar to chinese checkers trying to get your chits into your opponents home base. While you're moving your pieces, you can also battle your opponents, and pin their pieces (preventing them from moving). While moving, you can enter the center square (or side squares in a 2 player game) and pick up various buff items making y...