Jul 17, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Making your friends hand over their resources to you in Settlers in Catan or revealing yourself to be a Cylon in Battlestar Galactica isn’t just satisfying on a personal level. It seems that this can help your brain as you age. According to the New York Times, Paul...
Jul 15, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
ThinkFun’s Escape the Room: Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor is an escape-the-room game that can be played in your own home. You don’t need to bolt your doors and windows, and you don’t need to hide precious information in secret places. All you need are an ability to...
Jun 20, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Kickstarter has been raising money for entrepreneurs and wannabes since 2009, funding such fascinating projects as an ostrich pillow and, um, potato salad. All told, Kickstarter has put the fun in fundraiser by raising $2.4 billion since its inception. And it turns...
Mar 25, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Want to create your own board game? You need more than big ideas. You need advice from an award-winning, patent-holding game designer. Andy Looney, creative director of Looney Labs, has been making his own games since he modified the board game Battle Cry into a...
Aug 1, 2007 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
There are dozens of collectable card games in the world, but Ricardo Piper chose the pink ones. “I’ll play anything that catches my interest,” Piper says as he held his Yu-Gi-Oh cards, which happened to be enveloped in individual pink wrappers, a...
