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Posts Tagged ‘scrabble

Scrabble: A Game of Quones and Kwyjibos

November 27, 2010

Scrabble’s position in the board game world is truly an enigma (9 points); a query (17 points, much better) if you will. Its viewed by much of the general public as being a game of elitists; a game for the more intelligent among us. But by board game snobs, its considered one of the pedestrian, […]

The Ten Greatest Board Games

November 3, 2009

The Ten Greatest Board Games 10. Trivial Pursuit (1981) In 1981, two Canadian magazine editors decided to design their own game and ended up creating a champion medium for all sorts of useless facts and knowledge. The gameplay is decent enough, simple in concept, but the trivia challenge is what made this game a huge […]