This week, we are joined by the “Head Camper” at Happy Camper Games – Jason Schneider!

Do you like Wingspan? The largest wingspan for a bird species is 3.63 meters, measured on a Wandering Albatross.

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Green Team Wins (a Family Gamers favorite)
Mah-jong
Trio
Pocket Paragons
Camel Up
Skyrockets
Smug Owls (our review)

Can you ask clever questions and deduce the identity of the hidden Criminal?

Sherlock 13 is a deduction game with just 13 cards and paper sheets to record information.

Watch the video of our review or read the transcript.

Jason has been working in the board game industry for a long time. Trio is the debut game for his new company, Happy Camper.

Trio’s US debut was at PAX Unplugged, and Jason almost ran out of the game!

Summer camp played a critical role in Jason’s life, and the idea kept coming back over and over.

Jason wants to publish games FOR FAMILIES, should make you think back to summer camp experiences. Trio exemplifies this – it’s easy to learn and plays fast. “Let’s play again!” and reminds us of the kinds of traditional card games we played as kids.

Jason feels strongly about the role camp can have in a kid’s life: some of the proceeds from Happy Camper games will go to fund summer camp scholarships.

We reminisce about summer camp and camping in general. “All you need to do is put up a hammock…” “… and you’ve got to have s’mores.” So what IS doing the real work in a s’more? Andrew and Jason agree it’s the marshmallow. No gatekeeping on what makes a s’more though!

Back to Happy Camper – Jason decided to stick with the name, but keep the branding very simple, no campfire or tent or specific camping item. “Camping is a very personal thing.”

We are thrilled with Happy Camper’s success so far with Trio and hope they’ll keep doing just as well. They’ll be at PAX East, so you will be able to check them out there!

What’s the next game from Happy Camper? “Like Trio, it will have a certain familiarity to it… and it’s a great group game.” And it has a “frenemy” nature to it. That’s all he can tell us, except it will be out before the end of 2024.

Trio is back in stock as of this episode’s date.

HappyCamper.games – also a great place to find a local retailer where you could buy Trio!

In person, find them at PAX Unplugged, PAX East, and Gen Con.

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According to WikiFanona, there are currently 362 episodes of the incredibly popular television show NCIS. (But it’s still in production, so there will be more.)

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Seven Bridges – a roll-and-write that feels different from any other.
Tesseract (our review)
Smug Owls (review coming soon)
Unmatched: Sun’s Origin (Tomoe Gozen & Oda Nobunaga)
Oh What Fun! (last year’s review)
Motley (review coming)
Trio (review coming – we recommend!)

Anitra’s December: 45 plays of 27 unique games. Learned Camel Up on New Year’s Eve! H-index 3: Trio, Skyrockets, Tesseract, Smug Owls.

Andrew’s December: 28 of 17 unique games. H-index 3: Tesseract, Trio, Smug Owls.

Andrew’s 2023: 288 plays of 148 unique games. H-index: 4. Most played: “Unpublished Prototype”, Unmatched, Jekyll vs. Hyde, FORK. 64% of plays at home.

Anitra’s 2023: 564 plays of 210 unique games. H-index: 9 – Calypso, Unmatched, Numbsters, GROVE, Roll to the Top, River Wild, Forage, Wildtails, Turbo Kidz. 2 players is most often: 37% of the time. Next most common is 3 players and solo, which each get 18%. 67% of plays were at home.

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This sequel in the Ecosystem series is more family-friendly and fun!

This card-drafting, tableau-building game is a great way to learn or review facts about animals that live in the African savanna.

Watch the video or read the transcript.

Andrew came up with a way to rank our top games and allow for overlap: we each distributed 10 points among our top 6 games. It worked! We have a top ten.

Unmatched (see our previous reviews)
Her Story (our review)
Tesseract
Smug Owls
Disney Animated (our review)

Junk Drawer (our review)
Roll to the Top: Journeys (our review)
Turbo Kidz (our review)

Illiterati (our review)

boop. (our review)

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We’re back, with a bonus episode, featuring the rest of our PAX interviews.

Chinese submarine 361, nicknamed “The Great Wall”, is infamous for killing all members on board in 2003.

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Santa’s Workshop
Skyrockets
Tesseract
Space Explorers: Age of Ambition (our review)
Ecosystem: Savanna
National Geographic: Secret Clue – Animals

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This wasn’t quite the “chill, enjoy the journey” sequel to Tokaido that we expected. But it’s a great game for two players that avoids being confrontational and directly competitive.

Watch the video or read the transcript of this review.

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The Tree Trimming Game

Find out more at Gamey

Sequitur – a word game using balls that slide into a holder

Find out more at Catmint Games

Jokkmokk
Marvel Remix
Unboxed

Find out more at WizKids

Crabs in a Bucket

Find out more at Blue Rondo Games

Wise Wizard has a new imprint, Wacky Wizard Games, with games intended for kids & families. Coming in 2024:

Star Realms Academy
Caution Signs
Pack the Essentials

Find out more at Wise Wizard Games

Maize Craze

Find out more at One Day West Games

Mycelia

Find out more at Ravensburger

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This is part one of a two-podcast series covering just a fraction of what the Family Gamers team saw at this year’s PAX Unplugged.

The American woodcock can see 360° around itself (horizontally) – https://birdprotectionquebec.org/coolest-bird-of-the-week10-facts-about-the-american-woodcock/

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Andrew: 23 plays of 13 unique games. H-index: 2 – most played: Purrfect Match, Star Wars: Unlock. Also “Maple” Andrew’s prototype game!, and Tokaido Duo, Turbo Kidz, The Hunt, The A.R.T. Project.

Anitra: 34 plays of 16 unique games. H-index: 3 – most played: Tokaido Duo, Star Wars: Unlock, Turbo Kidz, For Northwood!

For Northwood! – a solo trick-taking game
Space Explorers: Age of Ambition expansion (see our review of the base game)
Turbo Kidz
The A.R.T. Project

This silly, blindfolded racing game taught us a lot about better communication, which we did not expect!

The cooperative mode shares some features with Zombie Kidz Evolution, one of our family favorites.

Read the transcript or watch the video.

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Wandering Towers
Savannah Park
Beer & Bread
New York Zoo

For the adults:

Ark Nova: Marine Worlds
Boonlake: Artifacts expansion
Rats of Wistar
Pirates of Maracaibo

Find out more at Capstone Games.

Age of Wonders: Planetfall (up to 6 players, 45 minutes!)
GAP
Critters at War (Air, Land, and Sea with a new theme)
Critters at War: Flies, Lies, and Supplies (expand the original or play on its own)

Find out more at Arcane Wonders.

Alpujarras
Fisheries of Gloucester
Scribble Me This – with Pipnetic (“Pictionary with Riddles”) – coming to Kickstarter in February
The Feds – coming to Kickstarter in December

“Bring Your Own Pencil” games. Print the game sheet, grab a pencil, and go.

Older games that we love: Biblios, Cosmic Run Regeneration, Cosmic Run: Rapid Fire.

Find out more at Doctor Finn’s Games.

Tanuki (from Synapses Games)
Get Bit (from Greater Than Games) – with a new bathtub toy theme.

Mistwind
Ducks in Tow – and expansions!
Town Builder: Coevorden

Find out more at FirstFishGames.com

Catapult Feud

Find out more at Vesuvius Media.

Dicey Devices – coming to Kickstarter
Danger: The Game – (which we’ve reviewed!) a simple introduction to roleplaying.

Find out more at Origami Whale Games and Meeple Coffee.

Winsmith designed Junk Drawer, one of our favorite games of 2023!

10 Gallon Tank

Check out Winsmith Games.

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies
Megaland (our review)
Knight Fall
coming: Isle of Night

Find out more at Red Raven Games.

Time Division
Spicy – a bluffing game, and Sweet & Spicy, which is a little bit more forgiving.
Fish & Katz – a speed game with knit cat paws

Find out more at Czech Games.

Tesseract – a very active cooperative abstract game.
The Spill
boop. (and “spooky boop” AKA booOOp.)

Curt is always looking for games “that cause a real reaction at the table”. We agree!

Find out more at Smirk & Dagger.

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It’s gift giving season! Every year, we have Stephen Duetzmann from Engaged Family Gaming to tell us about their video game gift guide. What video games are the best picks for your family this year?

“Island 359” – a VR game available on Steam

and “The Battle of Wolf 359” from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space 9.

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Monopoly Chance – and Stephen proposes putting “Monopoly” onto other great board games.
Escape Academy (on XBox Game Pass)
Tokaido Duo
Purrfect Match
Celeste – and we learn about the accessibility options. (Our kids have since watched some speedruns. They’re crazy.)
Super Mario Bros Wonder

Check out this tableau-building storytelling game and watch or read our review.

Stephen runs Engaged Family Gaming and has been covering video games for about a decade now.

Let’s discuss their holiday video game gift guide!

“Playing the Avatar Pandora game with my mom.”

In 2024: Probably a new Nintendo Switch, probably a new Grand Theft Auto game. Princess Peach game (we’re excited for this one, too!)

Don’t forget to set it up before Christmas! (Plug in, connect to the internet, download updates, install a game or two.) It’s a much more effective surprise if it’s ready to play on Christmas morning.

And don’t forget about The Family Gamers holiday gift guide, too!

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Welcome to the month of November! That means it’s time for our holiday board game gift guide.

3-5-8, also known as Sergeant Major, is a trick-taking card game for 3 players, using a standard 52 card deck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_Major_(card_game)

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CDSK (review below)
Disney Animated (our review)
Space Explorers (our review)

Anitra: 26 plays of 17 games. H-index 3, with FORK, Mind Space, and Turbo Kidz played at least three times.

Andrew: 21 plays of 15 games. H-index: 2, with Horrified: Greek Monsters, FORK, Turbo Kidz, and prototype played at least twice.

Sweet Chaos Drizzled Popcorn – Candy Corn flavor

Anitra picked this up at Dollar Tree.

Probably the most enjoyable “For Science” we’ve ever tried!

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Are you Curious, Delightful, Seasoned, or Knowledgeable?

Test your trivia skills in this low-key trivia game with lots of difficulty levels.

Watch our video or read the transcript for this review.

Yeah, we’ve been doing this for a while. This year’s gift guide is still mostly new games, but there are a few surprising classics that show up as well.

Read the whole 2023 guide on our website.

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Today, we’re talking with the newest writer to join The Family Gamers, Stephanie Nye!

357 Fact – we learn about the 357 Magnum.

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Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters (a TFG favorite)

Ra (which we reviewed 2 weeks ago)

Escape room/mystery games!

Savernake Forest (pronounced “Sav – er – nack”!)

Turbo Kidz (ridiculous fun; watch out for a review coming soon)

Horrified: Greek Monsters (our review)

Final Girl (not for families! Solo or co-op horror game)

Sherlock 13

Mind Space (review linked below)

Welcome to 19 new community members! Stop in and say hi!

Roll dice and draw shapes on your “brain board”, fitting a little bit of everything into your life. This odd theme works surprisingly well.

Mind Space allows up to five players, with limited player interaction.

Check out the transcript or watch the video.

Stephanie started on Instagram, with a focus on cozy living, special daily moments, and family time. A lot of reading, some board games.

As board games “took over”, she created a second account dedicated to that hobby.

Now, she also has a weekly newsletter “Feel Good Friday”, embracing all the small joys in life.

We think games help us slow down and focus on spending time together as a family.

obviously Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters and Final Girl

Oh My Brain! (our review)

Ghosts Love Candy Too (our review)
and Ghosts Love Candy Too Roll and Fright (find at 25th Century Games or PNP Arcade)

Jekyll vs. Hyde (any time really, but even better this time of year – our review)

Zombie Dice (a long time TFG favorite!)

Studies in Sorcery (our review)

Nobody can play ALL the games that come out. But because there are so many, some really great games get lost in the shuffle. Here’s a few of our favorites:

Ancestree (our review)

Gem Rush

Framework (our review)

Pioneer Days & Old West Impresario

Anomia (more about Anomia and all its offshoots)

Miyabi (our review)

Ship Shape (our review)

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Episode 356

Top 10 Games for Kids 7-10

We took a break for a while from our age-segregated lists. But now we’re back at it!

(Don’t care about the podcast? Skip straight to the list.)

The Porsche 356 was retired in 1965. It was replaced by the much better-known Porsche 911.

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We had a great time at CuseCon last week!

Andrew: 17 (or 18) games played. H-index: 2 (prototypes & Mind Space)

Anitra: H-index: 3, with 36 unique games played 64 times. Most played: Naturopolis, Mind Space, Junk Drawer, and Forage (go check out the video!)

Mind Space – a new game from AllPlay which re-implements Yojohan Pepa Saikei, a Japanese game Anitra loved at PAX East 2022.

First in Flight – from Artana. A deck-building game where players race to attempt the longest powered flight.

Horrified: Greek Monsters – new thematic powers, and most monsters have a “lair” you must find.

Space Base – Anitra finally learned this game. A big improvement over Machi Koro.

Deep Dive – coming from AEG. Surprisingly simple press-your-luck game where your penguins “dive” into progressively deeper levels to find more and more valuable tiles – but try to avoid predators!

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Anitra previews Forage, the sequel to Grove. Layer cards to “upgrade” counters from low values to high values, with an autumnal harvesting theme. It’s currently on Kickstarter.

Watch the video or read the transcript.

Kids this age are really drawn by theme. So that’s how we structured this list!

See the expanded form of the list on our website, and check out the poll on our Facebook group.

Chosen by random number: Judah W. will be winning a complete set of the Holiday Hijinks escape room games.

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Castle Panic has been a part of our lives longer than The Family Gamers has existed, and this week we talk to its creators: Justin & Anne-Marie De Witt!

Hellenic Air Force Squadron 355, which fights wildfires and makes us think of Justin’s game Hotshots!

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Lots of prototypes, but also…
Mancala
Parks
Potion Explosion (our review – but we recommend the newer version with the plastic dispenser)
Horrified
Skulls of Sedlec
Stew
Barenpark with both modules from Bad News Bears
Ra (review coming soon)

Enjoy this new abstract game from Gigamic. It requires more planning on each turn than we were used to!

Watch the video or read the transcript for our Qawale review.

Justin had been making games since he was a kid, and started thinking about how to fight off something together.

Anne-Marie came up with the triangles for monsters to rotate to indicate hitpoints. Friends started to like it & ask for it!

Then Justin lost his job and it was the right time to try to move this game into something real!

“Realized we had a company… and a brand!” Saved up a bunch of money, then printed the game. It sold out in ten weeks!

Dead Panic – zombies. But not just a reskin! They turned the core mechanics inside out – You each control a character, trying to collect radio pieces & weapons, get all characters to escape while zombies approach. (If you die, you come back as a zombie!)

Star Trek Panic was made in partnership with USAopoly (now The Op) for 50th anniversary of original Star Trek. You’re defending the Enterprise, with shields instead of walls. As you take damage, you remove parts of the Enterprise model. You also can rotate the ship to change how you can hit. There are also missions and characters… but it’s out of print now.

Distributors asking for a refresh on the game, and fans asking for something deluxe. Led to first-ever Kickstarter.

People wanted minis. “Deluxe” was planned for 10th anniversary, with a total art refresh (carried through to 2nd ed), but everything that was cardboard becomes a mini, even plastic walls and rubbery tar token. Monsters have a spinning bottom that tracks their health so they can stay facing the castle!

But it turned out people wanted this treatment for all the expansions, too! So it wasn’t ready for the 10th anniversary.

And then there is ALSO a mostly-wood version, instead of plastic minis.

Here Kitty Kitty – lure cats to your yard! Cute tiny plastic cats

Dastardly Dirigibles – Build an airship of seven pieces. When you play a part out, everyone else has to play that part too (if they can).

Stringamajig – A party game, where you form a loop of string into a “picture” for everyone else to guess. Charade style, movement is important!

Grackles – abstract game with 4 colors of birds.

Bears! – real time dice game. Make pairs of your dice with the common “camp” dice.

My First Castle Panic (more below)

Hotshots – fight a wildfire together. Press your luck with dice. Most requested for a reprint.

My First Castle Panic is such a good fit for little kids! Where did it come from?

Justin and Anne-Marie did LOTS of research playing preschool level games.

Then sent prototypes to daycares/etc. to test out. “Couldn’t ever put it away”

And the kids started teaching each other, almost right away!

Reminder: “Asking for help” is a social-emotional development skill as well!

Ham Helsing (vampire hunting pig, based on graphic novel) KS early 2024

“Fun little card game” coming in the next year or so.

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Let’s make history! Or maybe just talk about some of our favorite history-inspired board games.

The oldest Babylonian calendar had 354 days.

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Anitra: 31 unique games, 62 total plays. H-index: 3. Most played is Calypso (14 times!). Less than 50% of games were at home (the 14 plays of ultra-portable Calypso doesn’t hurt here!)

Andrew: 19 unique games 24 times, H-index of 2. Qawale played 4 times, Junk Drawer 3 times.

Junk Drawer (review coming soon)

Star Trek: Cryptic (our review)

Lovelace & Babbage

The Rival Networks

Qawale (review coming soon)

Unmatched: Teen Spirit (our SNAP review)

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Bid on attractions to build your circus. Your bids will also help you “complete” attractions you already own, in an interesting twist on auction games.

It’s only playable at three or four players, but it’s great at both of those counts.

Watch our review of Big Top or read the transcript.

Kit Kat Limited Edition Churro flavor.

Not bad, just bland.

We’ve previously talked about US history (episode 132) and gameschooling (episode 249). But let’s talk about games that are newer, and games that are less US-centric.

A lot of these games let you pluck out relevant details and may spark interest for you and your kids to learn more!

Trekking through History (our review)

HerStory (our review)

Timeline – not recommended. This is a very punishing game unless you already know a lot about world history.

Order of Invention – it’s been years since we talked about it, but this was heavily featured as a sponsored ad on the podcast on episodes 132-154.

We’ve also been enjoying CDSK. While it’s a trivia game rather than focusing on history, we love how (like Order of Invention) it lets you evaluate your own level of knowledge before committing to win/lose points.

Gutenberg (our review)

Santorini (kinda)

Lacrimosa (our review)

Sola Fide

Watergate (our review)

The Grizzled

Pan Am (our review)

Leave us a review on Apple Podcast or wherever you subscribe, then email us and tell us about it. You could win a complete set of Holiday Hijinks micro escape room games, sponsored by Grand Gamers Guild.

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