Over the past few years me and my partner MaFt have discovered a love of board games. We have quite a variety ranging from popular games with every household like Risk and Monopoly to less well known games like Splendor and Pandemic. The only problem we have is finding games which are interesting and fun Continue reading →
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Exploding Kittens *Review*
YOU PUT THE CARDS FACE DOWN ON THE TABLE AND TAKE TURNS DRAWING FROM THEM. IF YOU DRAW A KITTEN CARD, YOU EXPLODE. WHEN YOU EXPLODE, YOU DIE AND YOU ARE OUT OF THE GAME. – Exploding Kittens Rulebook That’s the game. And that’s one of the main things about Exploding Kittens, it’s that when it comes Continue reading →
Carcassonne Board Game *Review*
Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that Continue reading →
International parenting – what can we learn from parenting around the world?
There isn’t one fool-proof technique to parenting, but cultural differences do have a huge impact on how families around the world parent their children. Whether it’s avoiding a regular evening routine like Spanish parents or encouraging children to eat “adult food” from the get-go like in South Korea, for International Families Day on 15th May, Bupa Continue reading →
Colt Express Board Game Review
In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. The game consists of five rounds, and each round has two phases: Phase 1: Schemin’ Each player plays 2-5 action cards on a common pile, with the Continue reading →
Three Storage Secrets to help Organise your Comics and Toys
Toy and comic collections grow and grow, with some falling out of favour as new things take over, then make a comeback when kids rediscover older items. Keeping things organised, so small parts don’t get lost and spoil games or just so you can see what you’ve actually got, can be challenging. Organised Storage Continue reading →
Dive in and Go Binge on your favourite Netflix shows with Three Mobile
Three Mobile has teamed up with Netflix, TVPlayer, Deezer and SoundCloud to let you stream shows and music infinitely, anytime, without using up your mobile data. Go Binge is available to all new or upgrading customers who have one of the following contracts with Three Mobile: All handset Advanced plans of 4GB and above. All Sim Only Continue reading →
Pandemic *Review*
I’ve heard lots of excuses about why people don’t play board games, they’re too expensive, they’ve got long manuals with complex rules, friends who are so competitive you just can’t play board games with them. Pandemic is a co-operative board game so no one’s going to get too competitive, and it has you working at the Centre for Disease Continue reading →