Ghosts is a simple, challenging word game that's played entirely verbally. No extra equipment is needed, unless players want to use paper and pencil to keep score. It's convenient, but ... Read More

The 2008 Mensa Mind Games winners have been announced. Every year, members of American Mensa choose five games to honor with the title of "Mensa Select." This year's Mind Games ... Read More

The Spiel des Jahres is Germany's award for the best family game of the year, and I believe it is the most prestigious award a game can win. The SdJ ... Read More

Anshul Samar, the 14-year-old designer of the chemistry-themed card game Elementeo, is profiled in today's edition of The New York Times. Samar said he created Elementeo because he "noticed that ... Read More

Catan Dice Game is a quick-playing, lightweight game set in the popular Settlers of Catan universe. Players use six dice to roll for resources (brick, lumber, wool, grain, ore or ... Read More

Even games for young children should include some element of decision-making. Without it, the outcome is predetermined once the game is set up. Unfortunately, Monopoly Town (2 to 4 players, ... Read More

It always surprised me a little that there weren't more games based on C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, although that has started to change with the release of major ... Read More

Pop culture phenom Hannah Montana has inspired the release of several board games and card games, including Hannah Montana Girl Talk (2 or more players, ages 8 and up) and ... Read More

Two new editions of Time's Up, my favorite party game, are scheduled to be available later this year. According to a report on BoardGameNews.com, Time's Up Deluxe and Time's Up: ... Read More

The first HeroScape expansion under the direction of Wizards of the Coast is now scheduled to be available in June. According to a post on GamingReport.com, the 19-figure Defenders of ... Read More

What would the perfect game room look like? Mary Dimercurio Prasad has some excellent ideas in a recent article for BoardGameNews.com, Game Room Accessories and Snackage. Her tips on game-safe ... Read More

On a recent flight to Portland, Oregon, presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama played the party game Taboo with his staff and members of the press. For the answer "California," one ... Read More

At this year's World Boardgaming Championships in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Jason Matthews and I will lead a discussion about election games ("Put Your Hand Up For Election Games") on Saturday, Aug. ... Read More

Ray Li, a 16-year-old high school student, recently posted this note in the About.com Board/Card Games Discussion Forum: "For a class in Critical Thinking, we are required to complete a ... Read More

Bonhams in London, one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers, will hold its first-ever sale of items related to Chess and other board games on Tuesday, May 13. According ... Read More

The most recsent issue of The New Yorker includes an article about Le Jeu de la Guerre, which writer Ben McGrath describes as "a kind of modernist take on chess ... Read More