by Ellie Dix | Mar 12, 2020 | Games and Puzzles to Play
Pig is a ‘push your luck’ game for two or more people, usually played with a single die. In the standard version, on her turn, a player throws the dice as many times as she wishes. She totals the score on the die each time she throws. If she throws a 1, she busts, her...
by Ellie Dix | Feb 13, 2020 | Games and Puzzles to Play
Noughts and crosses is boring. But there is a way to pimp up the game to make it much more interesting. Introducing…Ultimate Noughts and Crosses. Draw a big 3 x 3 grid, and within each square of the grid, draw another 3 x 3 grid. You now have 9 noughts and...
by Ellie Dix | Feb 10, 2020 | Games and Puzzles to Play, Video
In this video, Ellie explains how to play her favourite of all the whist variants… Nomination Whist. Don’t let the complicated looking score sheet put you off! You can download a scoresheet here, so you don’t even have to make your own. Nomination...
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...
