Nintendo Monopoly, a Monopoly version for all you Nintendo geeks out there. What you’ll be doing in this version is buying the names of all your favorite Nintendo characters: Mario, Link, etc…

The playing pieces are a NES, Mario’s hat, a koopa shell, and other iconic imagery from the wonderful world of Nintendo.

I’m not a huge Monopoly fan, but this has my interest. There’s even rules for a 60-minute speed version of the game.

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Stare at an image for 20 seconds and then answer questions about it.

Restrict to no more than two teams and enforce a limited play time, and it sounds like fun.

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4,491,863. (source) Turn the sound off.

Last year’s event.

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Fantasy Flight Games is recruiting for two additional positions: a Fiction Editor [PDF] and a Roleplaying Game Producer [PDF]. The former will work on the company’s line of novels and graphic novels, while the latter will usher games through design, playtesting, approvals, and printing.

Catalyst Game Labs, too, is in need of assistance. They’re looking for some help in producing CAD files from art for the upcoming Leviathans miniatures game.

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Through tomorrow (Monday, November 30th), Adamant Entertainment is running an major sale on its PDF products, with every single one of them just $1.00. This includes not only the company’s existing products, but also the brand new Rebels of Mars for Savage Worlds and Fell Beasts for Pathfinder RPG.

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Here’s a brief lowdown on Blurt! before the rest of the review. I brought Blurt! to Thanksgiving dinner with my family. We played Blurt! for 15 minutes, 14 minutes of which we complained about not wanting to play Blurt! anymore.

Yeah…

The idea behind the game seemed really great. Cards that have definitions on them, and you have to call out the right word to advance your piece. Unfortunately, it’s not pulled off very well.

One player, the reader, rolls the die. Whatever number comes up, you read the definition off a card that corresponds with that number. Who ever calls out the right word first moves the number of spaces rolled on the die. Then the role of the reader passes to the next player. There’s also rules for people who land on the same space as someone else.

Very simple.

The main problem with Blurt is that all the definitions are VERY easy for your average adult. Even the “hard” side of the card wasn’t very hard. There didn’t seem to be any level of difficulty change for higher numbers rolled vs lower numbers rolled. Our game came down to whoever screamed the right word out the loudest would move.

Some people at the table ended up getting a lot of words right, but on rolls of 1 or 2, while other people (at no real increase in difficulty) where moving 5 or 6 spaces at a time.

The game might be better suited to tweens, whose vocabulary may not be up to snuff of that of an adult, but we didn’t run across anything really taxing for even that age range.

Blurt! has potential. With some harder cards, and maybe an extra mechanic or two, it could really be a good party game. As it stands right now, there’s a LOT of better party games out there to spend your money on.

A copy of Blurt! was provided for free to review by Educational Insights.

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I run with a pretty creative group, modding games to enhance the overall experience with player aids and the like. That said, this guy makes us look simply apathetic:

Yup, that’s right – the entire Warhammer Fantasy world recreated with nothing but tiles from Games Workshop’s Mighty Empires expansion. Whether you call it dedication or fanaticism, you’ve got to respect the effort.

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So if you’re in the US, then you probably celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, or are having some sort of celebration this weekend. My question to you is, what games do you and your friends/family play?

It’s taken me quite a bit of effort to introduce gaming on Thanksgiving to my family, but I’ve managed to slip a few party games in that have really gone over well.

Usually we play Scattergories, Cranium Turbo Edition, and a Werewolf variant that I call “The Last Thanksgiving”, featuring killer turkeys. This year I’ll also be bringing Blurt.

So what have you played, or what will you be playing during your celebrations this year?  Leave a comment below!

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Take Me to the Cleaner$ is a board game from Frank Janicek, intended to be played by one or more couples. The object of the game is to finish with the most assets while divorcing.

The result of playing the game is likely to end with one player finishing with the most assets while the couple is divorcing.

Regardless of the number of couples playing, the game is always played as you against your spouse.

The underlying theme of the game is about “acceptance” and “compromise” but on the surface, its about getting back at your spouse/partner in a fun, light-hearted way for driving you crazy for all the time you’ve been together. Tired of putting up with your spouse’s/partner’s irritating traits or habits? Do you wish you could get back at them in a fun, light-hearted way? Well, here’s your chance!

For example, on a turn, you might have to describe how good your relationship used to be while you were dating and how it is worse now. Or you may have to list three things about your spouse that really get on your nerves. Do this over and over for a whole game. What a barrel of laughs!

The coup de grace is that each player creates a list of three real-world activities that his or her spouse must comply with after the game if he or she wins.

They’re taking this to Dragon’s Den this season. Good luck with that.

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Cerebration, also the name of the sggc, is by Dr Scott Williams. It’s a trivia game with 300 cards, for which the good doctor spent $10,000 on the trademark and some unknown about marketing it with a billboard on US 431 outside of Hampton Cove.

The game costs $28, with 100 card expansions costing $10 each.

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