Zombiepox
Like most great diseases, the game Zombiepox has had a period of incubation and mutation. The genetic material for the game germinated in Pox: Save the People. According to Tilfactor’s website, Pox was...
View ArticleMonster Falle
Kosmos has a prize winner with their dexterity and racing game, Monster Trap (Monster-Falle for you deutschephiles). The game won a Kinderspiel des Jahres and a Deutscher Spielpreis in 2011 and in 2013...
View ArticleSpaceteam
You and your iThing and at least one other player are members of a Spaceteam. You need to remember two things: you are a team, and you are in space, and you have an iThing, and you and another player...
View ArticlePandemic
One of the first reviews I wrote for Major Fun was for Forbidden Island, a cooperative board game in which you are trying to save four treasures from a rapidly sinking island. This review also marked...
View ArticleForbidden Desert
Matt Leacock has a knack for creating games about overwhelming odds. In Pandemic, players race against the advancing tide of infectious disease. In Forbidden Island, that race is against the literal...
View ArticleMachine of Death
So if you haven’t checked out the Major Fun book review for Machine of Death, I’ll give you a moment to read it here… [whistles through teeth…] Take your time. It’s really good. The book, I mean. Go...
View ArticleRobot Turtles
Programming is one of those skills that many of my generation and older consider to be about as esoteric as alchemy. Hours of waving your hands over a table. Repeatedly typing thousands of lines of...
View ArticleRobot Turtles: Adventure Quests
Robot Turtles: Adventure Quests is a separate adventure pack that can be added to ThinkFun’s Robot Turtles (it is not a stand alone game) or you can by and Adventure Bundle that combines the basic...
View ArticleRory’s Story Cubes – Mix and Max
As you no doubt know, Rory’s Story Cubes® has achieved that most coveted of all Major Fun awards, the Major Fun Keeper! In their ceaseless attempts to make a good thing better, Gamewright has recently...
View ArticleBounden: dance, play, love
Two people. One SmartThing (you know, iPod, iPhone, Galaxy). Each partner (player/dancer) is holding on to one end of the SmartThing, thumb on the little “place your thumb here” circle. You center the...
View ArticleFuse
Release Date: 3/7/2016 Download: Enhanced | MP3 Running Time: 45 min Subscribe: Enhanced | MP3 | RSS Red alert! Dozens of bombs are hidden across the decks of your ship. Can your team find...
View ArticleMmm!
Mmm! Pegasus Spiele | BGG Designer: Reiner Knizia Artist: Andreas Resch Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 1-6 players 15-20 min. ages 5+ MSRP $24 Charlie and Carlotta are mice who live in the walls...
View ArticleMole Rats in Space
Release: 8/15/2017 Download: Enhanced | MP3 Run Time: 38 min Subscribe: Enhanced | MP3 | RSS It might come as a suprise to learn that mole rats make perfect astronauts. Or maybe we should...
View ArticleCodenames: Duet
Release: 11/21/2017 Download: Enhanced | MP3 Run Time: 60 min Subscribe: Enhanced | MP3 | RSS The party game Codenames took the game playing world by storm in 2015. Teams compete to find the...
View ArticleProfessor Evil & The Citadel of Time
Release: 5/10//2018 Download: Enhanced | MP3 Run Time: 104 min Subscribe: Enhanced | MP3 | RSS High atop a mountain in his castle, Professor Evil uses his time machine to rob the world of...
View ArticleDecrypto
Release: 5/28/2018 Download: Enhanced | MP3 Run Time: 80 min Subscribe: Enhanced | MP3 | RSS Your team of spies intercepts a secret transmission… 3 words… a code tied to a sequence of...
View ArticleForbidden Sky
Release: 5/6/2019 Download: Enhanced | MP3 Run Time: 85 min Subscribe: Enhanced | MP3 | RSS First came the island. Your team of adventurers found relics in temples sinking into the sea. Next...
View ArticleCupcake Academy
Cupcake Academy Blue Orange Games | BGG Designer: Erwan Morin Artist: Stephane Escapa Publisher: Blue Orange Games 2-4 players 10 minutes ages 8+ MSRP $22Time to teach & learn: 3 minutes Seven...
View ArticleSo Clover
Release: 2/18/2022 | Download: Enhanced | MP3 Run Time: 86 min | Subscribe: Enhanced | MP3 | RSS Four clue words on four leaves. Can your teammates use these clues to select and arrange four...
View ArticleHey Yo
Release: 11/7/2022 | Download: Enhanced | MP3 Run Time: 40 min | Subscribe: Enhanced | MP3 | RSS Yo! You and your crew are about to jump on stage for your first rap battle. The DJ will lay...
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