All the Games on Our Shelves

  I suggested we play this game today.  I know it to have been one of David's favorites back in the day.  It's one we used to play ALL THE TIME in the early years of our marriage.  Today is our anniversary, so I though this would be a particularly good choice.  We had also planned to make a nice dinner together and then to go out to a movie (A Quiet Place Part 2).  What I forgot is that this game can take nearly 4 hours, and it did!  No movie tonight, and I think dinner will be ready at about 9pm!  It is a good game.  It is mostly based on strategy, but there are a couple of elements that bring luck into the picture.  Though it is a good game, both of us ran into some pretty disappointing roadblocks today.  That's one thing when you're playing for half an hour, but when you're playing for nearly 4 hours, that kind of impacts the mood.  It can't always have been this frustrating, as, if it had, I don't think we would have made i...

  Amazing - the game designers have put the "escape room" experience into a board game!  I really enjoyed this - solving all the riddles and puzzles in order to try to escape the forbidden castle.  I felt that there was good variety in the puzzles and that we really needed the team effort in order to figure everything out.  As I say so often, I love cooperative games.  One of my sons was less impressed with this one, feeling that some of the puzzles were rather contrived or a bit clunky.  So I guess for our family the verdict is out.  Something that was a bummer for me is that this is a one-off.  Once you play it, you can never play it again, both because you've figured out all the riddles and also because you've had to destroy some of the items (cards, instruction manual, etc.) in order to do so!  Honestly, I think it was a great game, and I did enjoy it very much, but I really like games that are re-playable over and over, and I don't like ...