We enjoy playing several trick-taking card games.

Our favorites over the years have been Skull King, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, and Cat in the Box. That's because they all present some very unique spins on basic trick-taking game play.

We've recently played a new trick-taking card game with unique twists that have us thinking in fresh ways yet again.

Sandbag, by Bezier Games, is a fun new spin on trick-taking card games that's a lot of fun.

Sandbag card game review is an article from The Board Game Family

I had a fantastic first weekend of March because I was hanging out and playing tons of games with my friends at SaltCon Spring 2022!

I look forward to this 4-day gaming event with much anticipation every year. And it was especially great this year because the air was finally clearing around the Covid pandemic. Which means we could see the smiling faces of the 1,700 or so people who came out to play all sorts of games.

This year I was able to attend 3 full days of the event and played 22 different board games, card games, and dice games!

It was a lot of fun and I'm ready to share my thoughts on each of the games I played.

(Consider it like a bunch of mini-reviews.)

SaltCon 2022 Recap – 22 Games Played is an article from The Board Game Family

Fluttering Souls is a beautiful two-player abstract card game from Good Games Publishing.

In the game, players compete to collect sets of butterflies in order to score the most points to win the round.

Win 3 rounds and that player becomes the master Lepidopterist!

Fluttering Souls Card Game Review is an article from The Board Game Family

How did your teenagers spend last summer when the world was shut down because of COVID-19?

Did they spend more time in front of a screen or did they find something more constructive to do with their time like Harrison Brooks?

Who is Harrison Brooks?

Well, he’s a 17-year old that designed and published a new card game called ElevatorUp and started selling it on Amazon.com last summer.

How’s that for making the most of summer vacation?

So we asked Harrison a few questions about the game, what prompted him to create it, and what the process was like. Here’s some of his story:

17-Year Old Game Designer Q&A is an article from The Board Game Family

What’s with all this clanking around?

When you’re making such noise, you’re sure to draw the attention of the big bad boss and make it much harder to steal his loot and escape.

Well, you truly can’t avoid being noisy when you’re playing Clank!

But that’s the fun of it!

Whether you’re playing Clank! or Clank! In! Space!, you’re in for a fun adventure that adds flare to deck-building.

Clank!, Clank!, and more Clank! is an article from The Board Game Family

It’s a new year in the forest of Kodama and time for a friendly competition to see who can grow the best tree for the tree spirits.

Will you be the caretaker who grows your sapling into the most attractive tree (and scores the most points)?

Maybe it’s time you found out.

Fun head-to-head tree growing in Kodama Duo is an article from The Board Game Family

When a game takes over almost all our family game time, it must mean it's time to review it.

And while we have a large stack of games on our "to review" shelf, some games just shoot right to the top of the stack.

Such is the case with Skull King!

Skull King is totally King in our family is an article from The Board Game Family

Happy New Year!

We're not sure if 2018 flew by for you, but it sure seemed like it did for us. We passed a number of milestones as a family this year. And we ended 2018 with a bang by taking a family vacation over Christmas and into the New Year. It's so great to all be together again.

But before we dive into the new year, let's take a look back at 2018.

2018 – Year in Review is an article from The Board Game Family