Tag: ED APPLEBY

Some co-op games are easy. Some are difficult. And in some cases, a different version of an easy game can be brutal.

Imagine, if you will, that every day you have to take down a giant mammoth with a sharpened stick in order for you and your tribe to survive.

Art is subjective. Two people can look at the same painting or read the same story and interpret it in different ways.

Cooperative board games require many players working together against the game. Be it saving the world from infectious outbreak, monsters from beyond, or mysteries unimaginable, each player has their strengths and the whole team works towards the goal through careful planning and strategy.

Games are meant to be shared among friends. Some friends like to play games of strategy against one another, some like to work together in cooperative gameplay to defeat a bigger foe, and some friends like to melt each others’ faces off with totally crazy spells.

Parlour games are a great way to break the ice at your next laidback chill-fest.

’Tis the season to grab your holiday board games, although I find there is a desperate lack of Christmas board games out there. They are quite rare, and when you find one from a licenced property then you are in for a treat, like last year’s fruitcake.

Flick on a light. This simple act is made possible by an extremely complex array of systems that brought the power from its raw source right to your fingertips. But to you, it’s as simple as a switch.

One thing you learn early on in your experience playing board games—usually when you’re being thoroughly destroyed at Monopoly by an older cousin—is that you don’t have to be good at a game to enjoy it.

Euro-style games require a lot of strategy and not a lot of player interaction.