Category - Family

Colorful game box for "Zum Kuckuck!" featuring cartoon birds and a playful design, showcasing a bird entangled in colorful sticks and eggs, with a green background and HABA branding. Perfect for family game nights.
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Go Cuckoo

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group. The 5th game in our dexterity marathon is Go Cuckoo (or Zum Kuckuck as our German version is named)...

Matthew Bailey
September 4, 2021
Board game "Drop It" by Bernhard Lurch and Uwe Rapp, featuring colorful geometric shapes on the box cover, published by Kosmos. Ideal for family game nights and strategic gameplay.
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Drop It

Today was the first day of our dexterity marathon pushing our family’s love/hate relationship with dexterity games. Jack(6) had a play date so it was just Toby(3) today. The game was Drop It! A game I had never...

Matthew Bailey
September 2, 2021
Tumble Tree game box featuring vibrant illustrations of a tree and a bird, designed for family-friendly fun and skill-building activities.
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Tumble Tree

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group. Part 2 of our dexterity marathon was the delightful Tumble Tree. A game that as an adult has most in...

Matthew Bailey
September 2, 2021
Board game "Point Salad" featuring colorful vegetable illustrations on the box cover, designed by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankiewich. The artwork includes various vegetables like carrots, peppers, and leafy greens, set against a green background.
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Point Salad

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form reviews in our Facebook Group. It is not up to the usual standard of our more recent reviews but I feel it is important to include it...

Matthew Bailey
August 31, 2021
Board game Sagrada box featuring colorful stained glass window design, showcasing the title and subtitle "A Game of Dice Drafting & Window Crafting" by Daryl Andrews and Adrian Adamescu, placed on a wooden surface.
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Sagrada

After a few days of primarily playing child games, today, we played a favourite of mine that I had not tried with Toby(3) before (Jack(6) had played it once before a year or so ago). My Usual Disclaimer: My boys have...

Matthew Bailey
August 30, 2021
Ice Cool 2 board game box featuring colorful graphics and a penguin character, designed by Brian Gomez, displayed on a wooden table.
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Ice Cool 2

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group. With the knowledge dexterity games never go well I tentatively decided to give Ice Cool 2 a go having...

Matthew Bailey
August 26, 2021
Colorful board game box for "Gravity Super Star" featuring playful characters and vibrant artwork, designed by Julian Allain and Gyom. The box showcases a dynamic theme with elements of gravity and adventure, ideal for family game nights.
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Gravity Superstar

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group.Gravity Superstar is a space themed movement game that I purchased a few years back when the kids were...

Matthew Bailey
August 25, 2021
Colorful box of the children's game "Socken zocken" by HABA, featuring a cheerful green creature holding a sock, with a warning label about choking hazards.
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Socken Zocken

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group.We received Socken Zocken as a Xmas present from a friend who thought I would “enjoy” its...

Matthew Bailey
August 25, 2021
Colorful board game box of "Dragon's Breath" by HABA, featuring playful dragons and a sparkling gem theme, awarded the 2018 Children's Game of the Year.
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Dragon’s Breath

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group. For our pre-bedtime game, we decided to play something actually designed for children for a change...

Matthew Bailey
August 20, 2021