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Batman Rory Story Cubes

We just finished a long day of school and ballet. However, we couldn’t wait. We had to get the word out about Batman Story cubes!!! These cubes are amazing! A better video will be up soon. This is just our first look at this game. Better story’s to come! Full images and full blog is in progress! Thanks guys have a great day!

Holy Smoke Batman this cubes are real! When I first heard about the Batman edition of Story Cubes, I assumed it was a hoax. How wrong I was. I absolutely love these cubes!The Creativity Hub &
Gamewright have made an amazing product! Great clear images, comes in a hard plastic case and with a sheet that labels each picture (just in case you cant think of that villains name or etc).

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How can you pass up Story Cubes Batman edition? Well, I guess if you don’t like Batman. He dresses well, has all the cool toys and defeats villains.. Yep pretty sure everyone likes him. If you have played any other editions of Story Cubes is basically the same just with Batman themed images. If you haven’t. You must check them out if you love story telling. You roll the dice or even as little as one die and you make a story based off of the image. You can play solo or co-op. I even make my oldest write down the stories to add even more educational value. Every family should own at least one version on Story Cubes. I have yet to have someone play a game and say they didn’t enjoy it or ask to play again.

Overall Review

Price: $10 & up

Ages: 3 & up

Players: 1 & up

Materials: 5 Stars, This game is very well made.

Replay Value: 5 Stars, So many different ways to play and stories to make its always different.

Recommend it to others: Yes, great for kids, families, teachers and Batman fans!

Flip City

Flip City by Tasty Minstrel Games 

 

 

Flip City by Tasty Minstrel Games is a micro-deckbuilder. It has everything you need in one box. No buying blind bags or expansions to build your decks up. Yet, it has great play ability. In this deck both sides of the cards are playable. This is my guess to why the game is called Flip City. 🙂 During your building phase you can purchase buildings and/or upgrade them . Upgrading the buildings is as simple as spending the money and flipping the card. Yet, getting your strategy and knowing which cards you want to flip is harder that you would think.

This game is unique has you don’t actually have a hand while playing. You will  play directly from the top of your deck. Each card that you lay will have a special action box that you have to complete. You can earn money, ribbons or sad faces. Once you have 3 sad faces played, your turn has to end and you don’t collect any money. You try to end your turn before you hit 3 sad faces, so you can move to the building phase. However, If you play 8 ribbons in your card playing phase you win!!!

We really love the fact that you can enjoy this game with the different variants. The solo variant is quite fun. I like to try different strategies or time myself while playing solo. You know basically get really good. So I can kick everyone else’s butts. That’s what solo variants are for right?

 

Overall Review 

Price: $20

Ages: 8 & up  ( I would say depends on child’s reading skills)

Players: 1-4

Materials: 4 stars This game is very well made.

Replay Value: 4.5 stars

Recommend it to others: Yes. We love that you can play solo as well!

One Zero One

Grail games have this tabletop game making down! One Zero One is a quirky, tactical computer programming themed card game. You try to take command of the program lines. Each line is worth a certain amount of points. Who ever has the most points after the program runs wins. It’s a nice, quick 2-player only game. It’s no wonder why this game got backed via Kickstarter. You can start geeking out now.

 

 

 

 

While playing you will be player Zero or player One. Each player will have identical decks which includes 16 cards. Some of these cards will have commands printed on them. The commands will affect the card next to the edge it is printed on.

 

 

Overall Review

Price: 12

Ages: 8 & up ( I would say depends on child’s reading skills)

Players: 2 only

Materials: 4 stars This game is very well made.

Replay Value: 3.5 stars

Recommend it to others: Yes. However, this game is for those who like the theme. Which is the only reason we rated it a 3.5

Coconuts!

Coconuts by Mayday Games is a game every family should have. Coconuts is a dexterity game. You fling coconuts into cups and collect those cups and coconuts. We love dexterity games, getting to hit or swing items is just plain fun. Coconuts is a game everyone can enjoy. If your kid is to young to actually play. They can just practice flinging the coconuts into the cups. However, you don’t even need to know how to read to play this game. Here is a few pictures and clips of the kids practicing before we play. Full video and review will be up soon.

 

 

 

Too Many Cinderellas


Too Many Cinderellas by Grail Games. This tabletop game is for 2-4 players that are ages 10 + (Depending on the child. Anyce is 8), and is about 10 mins long. You play as town people who are spreading rumors for the Prince to hear. He will pick his Cinderella based off of the rumors that you spread. Anyone can actually become Cinderella. A male, senior, or even a cat. Yes, an actual meow cat! Which is Anyce’s favorite card from this game.

Anyce and her BFF, Bella, did a let’s play. Sorry about the silliness and randomness of these girls. At least they are cute 🙂

I was actually quite surprised how great the quality of this game is. The box is made out of a thick cardboard with beautiful bright prints. Once you open it up. All the components fit nicely and won’t be rattling around in your box.  The art work on the lien cards are just beautiful! They use light pastel colors that most princess loving girls enjoy. The “diamonds” were both of the girls favorite components. They wanted them all. What girl can turn down the silliness and cuteness of the game!

Too Many Cinderellas is similar in scope to the Love Letter games.  It is a quick, small deck based game where you earn the most tokens (diamonds) over a few rounds to win. Each card you lay down has an action, in this case a rumor. It’s easy enough to talk and enjoy your company while playing. However, it’s interesting enough to keep you pulling it out to play again. We truly enjoyed this game. I hope you check it out for yourself, or for a little girl in your life.

 

 

School is Here!

Well It’s officially both of our kids are in school! Anyce is in 3rd grade. Zayden is starting Kindergarten! Yes, let’s let the panic attacks start.  Zayden is my youngest. My super babied child is in Kindergarten! It’s absolute crazy. How did this happen? Time flew by! I swear, I should at least have one more year with him at the house. We cuddle, read books and play games on the daily. What I am going to do without him?

 

At this point, Anyce is a pro at school. Seriously, she takes after my husband. She is the quite, smart, angelic student. She does everything she is told and has never had any behavior issues at school. I know I sound like I am bragging. However, I am not. This is due to her being so shy. She doesn’t talk to most people at school. So my biggest issue with her is getting her to open up and make friends. Anyce was excited that her BFF, Bella, is in her class again this year! I am happy she at least has her in her class.

 

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Holy cow, that boy was more ready than I thought! We’ve been working the past year on socializing & etc. He walked up to almost every kid. He introduced himself & asked them if they wanted to be his friend. I got a hug, kiss and a goodbye as he ran into his class. He absolutely loves his teacher. He hugged her and gave her high fives. For Zayden this is amazing. He doesn’t warm up to people easily. Still, I am heartbroken that my kids are growing too fast. I had to hold back my tears until I got to my car. .

I am very proud of my kids. This year is going to be full of ups and downs, but I foresee them making amazing progress and learning so much. I am happy they are both enjoying school.

 

 

 

 

 

Super Tooth

A race to survive the meat eating dinosaurs and collect the most Super Tooth tokens. You will have to dodge the meat-eater dinosaurs, battle event’s such as volcano’s, hot sun, T-Rex and more!  This game will take a bit to get the hang of it. Once you do. It is fun!!

 

Super Tooth has 3 different types of cards.

Plant-Eaters: Green cards.

 

Meat-Eaters: White Cards

 

Event Cards are Yellow:

 

 

 

Overall Review 
Price: $12

Ages: 6 & up  ( I would say 7-8 yr olds can play. Lot’s of rules make for a bigger learning curve. Don’t use this game for a introduction to game for children)

Players: 2-4

Materials: 4 stars

Replay Value: 3.5 stars

Recommend it to others: Yes. This game is fun. However, It does have a learning curve.

Color Clash

Color Clash by Blue Orange is much harder than it looks. Some how with only 36 Clash Tiles and 6 Chameleon Tiles there are never ending possibilities.  You’ll find yourself trying to rake your brain to match colors. Matching colors? Yes, matching colors with this game is harder that you would think. If your looking for a game to help exercise your brain. This is it!

With 8 different games in this box you can play with 1-6 players. You can also match the tiles 3 different ways! Even if at first glance it doesn’t look like a match. It may be.  Here is a picture explaining the different way you can make a match.

 

We will be making a few different let’s play videos to help you decide which games are your favorite with Color Clash. Personally, I enjoy the Solo and the Guess what I am Thinking.  The Guess what I am Thinking let’s play will be coming soon!

 

Overall Review 

Price: $15

Ages: 7 & up  (sight words Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple and Orange are used in this game.)

Players: 1-6

Materials: 4 stars This game is very well made.

Replay Value: 5 stars So many different ways to play this game!

Recommend it to others: Yes

 

Disclaimer: Blue Orange did send us this game to review. This no way changed our opinions on this game.