by Ellie Dix | Jan 23, 2020 | Games and Puzzles to Play
This post is about Battleships and Salvo, a variant of Battleships. The MB game Battleships can be found in many households. The two hinged plastic boards and the fleet of grey plastic ships are iconic. But the game has much earlier origins. It dates from the First...
by Ellie Dix | Dec 12, 2019 | Board Game Families, Games and Puzzles to Play
I always tell parents who would like to use board games to reclaim family time, to start by developing their own love and enthusiasm for tabletop games. If you don’t play many games and don’t know where to start, then go back to basics with a humble deck...
by Ellie Dix | Oct 24, 2019 | Board Game Families, Games and Puzzles to Play
As I child I played loads of pen and paper games, especially with my granny, who, to my young mind, seemed to know several hundred. For the most part, it was just the two of us, playing games together in her granny flat. It was glorious. One of my favourites was...
by Ellie Dix | Oct 17, 2019 | Board Game Families, Games and Puzzles to Play
Last week my son, Bertie, and I had a go at making a Hexapawn machine. We were inspired by listening to Geoff Engelstein talk about the Hexapawn in his GameTek segment on The Dice Tower podcast. The Hexapawn demonstrates machine learning in a very simple way. All you...
by Ellie Dix | Jul 18, 2019 | Games and Puzzles to Play
My younger son, Bertie, is a regular listener to Spitballers Comedy Podcast. Every episode, the presenters do a ‘mock draft’ inspired by American Football mock drafts, where participants recruit different players to their fantasy team. On the podcast, mock drafts...
by Ellie Dix | Jun 13, 2019 | Games and Puzzles to Play
Racing Demon has it’s root in patience; but it’s not a game you can play on your own and patience is not a skill you’ll need to play. It’s best played with loads of other people – as many as you can cram around a table. And it’s...
