Category - Competitive

Box cover of the board game "Trek 12: Himalaya," featuring vibrant artwork of two adventurers trekking through a mountainous landscape with prayer flags and a distant temple. The design highlights the game's theme of exploration and adventure in the Himalayas.
CompetitiveFamilyRoll & WriteTravel

Trek 12

Trek 12 is a roll and write based around the idea of climbing a mountain. You start with a mountain with a number of circles. You roll 2 dice and then get an option. You can take the lowest number, the highest number...

Matthew Bailey
October 25, 2021
Colorful packaging of the "Circus Puppy" toy, featuring vibrant designs with stars and playful graphics, sitting on a wooden table.
CompetitiveDexterityFamily

Circus Puppy

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group. Let me introduce Circus Puppy. The concept of Circus Puppy is simple… kinda… well…...

Matthew Bailey
September 9, 2021
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.
CompetitiveDexterityFamily

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.
CompetitiveDexterityFamily

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.
CompetitiveDexterityFamily

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.
CompetitiveFamilySet Collection

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.
CompetitiveDraftingFamily

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