do you dare to roll?

As November comes to an end and festive times begin to roll in it’s nice to look forward to the fun activity of board gaming… an activity that never fails to bring us together with family, friends and loved ones… An activity that provides us with endless fun and warm feelings of joy and fulfilment……

Type: Strategy Players: 2-5 (best at 4) Age: 8+ Average play time: 30-60 minutes Bored Gamer Rating: This week’s game review is of a game called… I Win! “But Bored Gamer… We thought it was called Ticket to Ride? Why’d you call it I Win?” Because…well…I win! I’ll start with the fact that Ticket to…

Type: Quick Based Card Game Players: 3-5 Age: 13+ Average play time: 20 mins Bored Gamer Rating: There are a lot of very specific things I love in life: Chaos, rushing around, horror movies, ghost face, popcorn, living life on the edge, shouting at my friends to hurry up and tabletop gaming. How lucky am…

Type: Tile placement Players: 3-6 (best at 5/6) Age: 12+ Average play time: 1 hour Bored Gamer Rating: I can’t think of a better way to spend my evening than rounding up my group of friends and Great Dane to go and explore the local creepy abandoned mansion, find clues and run away from ghostly…

Type: Deduction/Secret Role Players: 8-18 (best 13-15) Age: 10+ Average play time: 30 mins Bored Gamer Rating: The ultimate party game of bluffing and deduction that you will love but barely get chance to play because getting the correct number of people in the games room at the same time Is near impossible. Scheduling a…

In the very paraphrased words of Mama Ru herself … “Table Top Gaming is not a contact sport” until of course it is. This week we have a double feature of games which have turned regular Friday games nights into Friday night smack down with as much drama, theatrics but not quite the fashion we’ve…

Men at Work Type: Dexterity Players: 2-5 Age: 8+ Average play time: 45 mins Bored Gamer Rating: Everyone loves the classic song Down Under by Men at Work; I even secretly like to bop my head along to the Drum and Bass remix that was shoved down everyone’s throats for the entirety of 2021. Heck…

This entry won’t be talking about the board game Pandemic (although I did get this for Christmas 2020 which was in hilarious bad taste) but will be looking at how the covid pandemic affected me personally particularly how it changed the way I socialised with my fellow tabletop gaming friends at the time. Whilst this…

Type: Bluff Players: 3-5 (best at 5) Age: 14+ Average play time: 60 minutes Bored Gamer Rating: WHATS IN THE BAG?!?!? … Probably not what they’re telling you! Sheriff of Nottingham is the ultimate game of deceiving your way out of a sticky situation. Better practice your poker face if you want to be…

Type: Deduction Players: 4-10 (Works best with 6) Age: 10+ Average play time: 15 mins (more like 30) Bored Gamer Rating: The Games night official “most played” game… the also games night official “makes you realise that no, you can’t read each other’s mind” game. New person joining us for games night… great!……