Order 66, the next scheduled release of the Star Wars PocketModel Trading Card Game, is scheduled to be available in March 2008. Game publisher WizKids announced that the game will ... Read More

The son of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has designed the board game Don't Drop the Soap, scheduled to be available on Thursday. John Sebelius, 23, designed the prison-themed game at ... Read More

Hasbro has completed the $77.5 million acquisition of Cranium which was announced earlier this month. Cranium published its first game in 1998. Since then, the company has sold more than ... Read More

Klondike Solitaire is probably the most popular solitaire card game. It's also known as Fascination and Demon Patience and is sometimes erroneously referred to as Canfield. Here are the complete ... Read More

Hasbro announced recently that their line of HeroScape products will move to the company's Wizards of the Coast division. HeroScape, a game of fantasy warfare first published in 2004 (with ... Read More

Yacht, the public domain dice game upon which the published games Yahtzee and Kismet are both based, is an all-time classic. Here are the complete rules for Yacht. All you ... Read More

The annual Million Minute Family Challenge, an event designed to encourage families and friends to play board games and card games, exceeded its goal for 2007. A total of 1,084,766 ... Read More

For the third straight year, the publishers of Pizza Box Football are sponsoring a contest encouraging players to predict the winner of the Super Bowl. After today's AFC Championship and ... Read More

Fan Tan, which Hoyle's Rules of Games indicates may have been named after a Chinese gambling game, is a simple card game for 3 to 8 players in which the ... Read More

Spoons is a clever card game that can be played by children and adults together. It also goes by the names Pig and Tongue, and actual spoons are not necessary ... Read More

Beggar My Neighbor -- also known as Beggar-My-Neighbor, Beggar Your Neighbor and Beggar-Your-Neighbor -- is a children's card game which doesn't require the players to make any decisions. This game ... Read More

If you're ever stuck somewhere with no games, but you do have at least one six-sided die, try playing Pig to pass the time. All you need is an opponent, ... Read More

Dexterity games challenge players physically as well as mentally. Games like Operation and Don't Break the Ice are good examples of well-known dexterity games, although they didn't make my list ... Read More

Crazy Eights, also known as Eights and as Swedish Rummy, is a distant relative of Rummy. It's known as a "stops" game because players can be stopped from discarding if ... Read More

When we're hungry, our minds generally turn to food. The designers of these games must have been hungry! Here are my picks for the best food-themed board games and card ... Read More

1960: The Making of the President, my pick as the best board game published in 2007, is by far the best U.S. presidential election game I've played. It's also one ... Read More

My list of the top 10 card games of 2007 features a wide variety of styles and themes. Players can take on the role of Cold War spies, dungeon explorers, ... Read More

2007 was another great year for board games. Although you won't find any of my top 10 board games of 2007 in mass market stores like Wal-Mart and Toys R ... Read More

Days of Wonder, publisher of the board games Ticket to Ride, BattleLore, and Shadows Over Camelot, announced yesterday that it is holding a contest to celebrate the 10 millionth online ... Read More

Hasbro, the second-largest toy and game company in the world, announced yesterday that it will acquire Cranium, Inc., publisher of more than four dozen games and a variety of toys. ... Read More

Crokinole is a beautiful game played on beautiful boards. Crokinole boards can sell for more than $300, and a real quality board is at least $100. The game itself is ... Read More

Old Maid, for 2 to 8 players, is part of a family of card games known as "scapegoat" games. In scapegoat games, the goal is to avoid having a particular ... Read More

It's never too early to plan your gaming calendar, and 2008 will offer plenty of opportunities to travel to great gaming events. Among your options are: Origins Game Fair in Columbus, ... Read More