Dice, card and board games reviews, rules and how-to's for the whole family
We love the Grinch around here so when we saw the Grinch Grow Your Heart Card game we knew we’d have to give it a try. You can see how much we love the Grinch by visiting our Grinch Party games and our Grinch dice […]
My husband loves mazes so years ago I bought the Labyrinth board game with high hopes. Sadly, ours was missing pieces and instructions! (This was before I knew all the ins and outs of buying used games.) The game sat, unloved, on the shelf for […]
Ticket to Ride is a bestselling games and for good reason. It’s fun, challenging but not too hard and it has a great theme. We have been obsessed with this game. But did you know there is a Ticket To Ride Card Game? We knew […]
Fast-paced Flavor Filled Fun 2- 6 players ages 13 and up Pop-tarts. Just the word alone is fun and can make you laugh, so when I saw that Pop-tarts card game, I thought it must be hilarious. So I picked it up to give it […]
The Fluxx line of card games is an interesting one. It starts out very simple and then can take some interesting twist and turns as the game goes on. It’s a game where you can play a ton of times in a row and each […]
Golf games are very popular so we thought we’d try out the GOLO Dice Golf game. Over the years, we’ve told you about many golf games—Dice Golf, Straight Golf, Golf Card Game. We even made our own mini golf dice game Whacky Putt (our personal […]
For Christmas this past year we gave a game each to the kids, as is our tradition. One of those games is the card game ruckus, a silly, fast pace game of matching. It looked to right up our ally so we were excited to […]
We love a good mystery here at Family Game Shelf. One of the best mystery games we’ve played is the Unsolved Case Files series. (You can read about Who Murdered Harmony Ashcroft here.) After playing our first one, we all agreed that we wanted to […]
Mix, Match, Score and Win 2 to 4 players ages 6 and up Qwirkle is a tile lying game with bright colours and fun patterns. I was immediately drawn to this game as we love games like Dominos, Carcassonne and Rummikub. I wasn’t wrong as […]
Think Fast before the blast…but don’t let the pressure get to you. 3 plus players ages 14 and up Pop Under Pressure is the latest word game that we’ve tested out. We love word games—games like Scattergories, Like Minds, our Daily News games and Listography—so […]