Idle Remorse

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Review: What’s Cookin’?

Review: What’s Cookin’? Publisher: University GamesYear: 2008Players: 4 or moreTagline: The Dinner Party Game for Cooks, Foodies and Friends how we met Based on all available evidence, I bought What’s Cookin’? at a thrift shop for $1.99. The game is newer than most games I write about, but it’s also in nice shape and the […]

Review: CNN The Game

Review: CNN The GamePublisher: GamePlan, Inc. Year: 1994Players: 2 to 6Tagline: Cover the World As a CNN Correspondent how we met I know I paid $1.99 for CNN The Game. I know this because the price tag is still on it. I know I bought CNN The Game in July 2019. I know this because […]

Review: “Read My [Lips]” Kid!

Review: “Read My [Lips]” Kid!Publisher: PressmanYear: 1991Players: 3 to 6Tagline: Hey, it’s the wild game of unspoken words! how we met Reader, you know how sophisticated my gaming tastes are. I did not buy this game. This is another that Bill picked up unsupervised for $1. We played one night as a group of three […]

Review: Ice Cube

Review: Ice CubePublisher: Milton BradleyYear: 1972Players: 2 to 4Tagline: The game that uses real ice cubes how we met I wrote in a past review (see Hide ’n’ Thief) how my friend Josh found a treasure trove of vintage games in a single store one fateful day. Ice Cube is part of that story. Ice […]

Review: moods

Review: moodsPublisher: HasbroYear: 2000Players: 3 to 8Tagline: it’s all in the way you say it game. how we met I found moods at one of my normal haunts. Moods is one of those interesting thrift finds where the cover screams generic party game, but yet I have not seen it before. So what is it? […]

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