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Monza: A car racing board game for kids. And Parents

This weekend was Sinterklaas weekend and one of Macsen’s aquisitions was Monza, a car racing borad game from Haba. To say I’m impressed would be an understatement – the game is superb. The rules are...

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Martin Robbins on whether violent games cause real life violence

Keith Vaz is an idiot.

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Angry Gnomes

On Friday, I was home alone with the kids and, while the weather could have been better, it was certainly too nice to stay indoors all day. The kids, however, wanted to stay inside and play Angry...

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Cat and Mouse

This is a game we aquired at Christmas and one that has been pulled out a surprising number of times over the past few months. The game is for two to four players and is pretty simple. Each player...

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Digital nostalgia: Gauntlet

I am not a gamer, certainly not in the modern sense of the word, but I have played plenty of tabletop RPGs and have spent a not insignificant percentage of the 1980s in various amusement arcades....

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Ninja Goats vs Pirate Chickens

Pirate Chicken Inspired by a conversation on Quitter, I found myself thinking about what a game involving ninja goats and pirate chickens would actually look like. The conclusion I eventually arrived...

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Tsuro: The Game of the Path

Tsuro: The Game of the PathThis is a recent addition to our collection of board games, and a very good one. What is nice about Tsuro is that the gameplay is as simple, or as complex as the people...

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Exploding Kittens on Kickstarter

This looks awesome Exploding Kittens is a highly strategic kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the game. The...

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Can you spot the drowning child?

Here’s a fun game you can play just before heading off on the family holiday. Spot the Drowning Child is a simple educational game written by Francisco Saldaña to help people recognise what is...

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Look what just turned up

My Exploding Kittens decks turned up earlier this week (Tuesday, to be precise), and they look lovely. I’ve already looked through the SFW deck with Macsen, and I suspect that we will actually start...

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Voxels ate my weekend

Sunrise Last week Macsen expressed an interest in Minecraft. He has access to an old laptop of mine, so I spent an evening upgrading it from OpenSuse to Antergos and installing Voxelands1 on it, along...

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Setting up a Multiplayer Voxelands Server on Debian

I mentioned an intention of setting up a Voxelands server a month ago so that Macsen and I could play in the same environment, and I have now finally gotten around to doing this. The server itself is...

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Quote of the day: The Nordic Model

Thanks to Nordic innovators, … millions spend what would otherwise be productive hours on Minecraft, Angry Birds and Candy Crush – Barack Obama, as quoted by New Europe

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What do you get when you let a six-year-old at your Voxelands server?

A giant statue of Mickey Mouse

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Meta-gaming

This week I have mainly been playing draughts with William. In Voxelands It’s quite a challenge looking at a digital board from completely the wrong angle. But the game is slowly progressing.

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Free subdomains with FreeDNS

Because remembering an IP address is hard. I’ve mentioned before that I have a private Voxelands server running so that the boys can build and explore in the same world. This works pretty well but it...

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Wow, a saxophone. I’ve always wanted to be in showbiz

It’s 35 years ago that the legendary Pimania was released by Automata and Alan Bilton has published a nostalgia inducing history of the game, the company and the creators. I remember being caught up in...

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The Poo Card Game

Because who doesn’t like flinging poo at each other? Fortunately, this is a card game and not for real. And it’s quite a fun card game if you are playing with a pair of seven-year-olds. What you get...

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Quoridor

One game that was brought out quite frequently over the summer was Quoridor. A large part of this is that, with nice solidly wooden pieces on a nice solid wooden board, there is no risk of anything...

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Forbidden Island

As someone who spent his formative years playing far too many role-playing games, it should probably come as no surprise that I have long found the idea of co-operative games to be very appealing....

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