Games of the Year 2006

Friday, December 15th, 2006 at 7:13 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 2 comments

I loved reading GAMES Magazine, but have since given it up along with many other magazine subscriptions. The magazine lists the games of the year. The Morning News and Yahoo Answers Readers also shared favorites. About.com lists Toy Industry Association’s nominees for 2006 game of the year. Here are Gone Gaming 2006 Board Game Internet Awards and the Top Tens Board Game List.

Plenty of game gift guides: Critical Gamers, Yehuda’s List, Bruno, The Spiel, Board Game Geek.

B000246MQU.01.PT02. SCMZZZZZZZ V40414691 Games of the Year 2006One reason why I especially love the holiday season: Games. No, not electronic or video. Board games. Old-fashioned fun board games. My family gets together and spends a day or two playing games. Last year, Apples to Apples was the hit. I got the Junior version for my middle child as a gift (Shh…), so I expect we’ll play that. I hope to show my parents how to play GiftTRAP.

I got Paul (he’s too busy to read this) Trivial Pursuit: Totally 80s. Last year, I got him VH1 I Love the ’80s Board Game. What can I say? We’re children of that decade.

We have a few other unopened games like Blokus, Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan Board Game tucked in our closets waiting to be played. I don’t like to put the games in the game room because the younger ones get into them and lose the pieces. But we’re in the middle of remodeling and adding a couple of closets, so I hope we can organize the games better.

We no longer have a complete set of Pit, the card game. One of my fondest memories is playing the game during my wedding weekend. Paul’s best friends and my best friends all huddled in a hotel room yelling “Two! Two! Two!!!” “Three! Three! Three!” Not often you can get a big group like that playing games.

My family also spent many winter holidays putting together jigsaw puzzles. I still remember doing the 5,000 piece Coca-Cola puzzle with my mom and my best friend until 2am only to find one piece was missing. My favorite puzzles consisted of themes like collector’s items such as baseball, campaign buttons, sports, Snoopy, antique toys, red-colored items (that was hard!). Many of them hailed from Springbok — even had one with computers.

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2 comments

  • Posted by Harrison on January 15th, 2007, 8:19 AM

    Hi, I enjoyed this informative post and wondered if you could help us further. We’ve recently set up a Wiki-website dedicated to offering information about games, gaming and ‘winning’ strategies. We are looking for people with expert knowledge to help us boost the content of the site. I wondered if you would be able to help us. Please take a look at our site (still very much in its infancy), and if you would like to add a section (even an extract from an existing article) we would be delighted. Of course, you are welcome to add links back to your website. You can also create an “Author’s” page with
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  • Posted by TR Wong on October 10th, 2007, 2:58 AM

    Hi Meryl,

    Found your site while looking up listings for board game reviews. You definitely need to open up the Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne games. Also, if you’re into card games don’t forget Fluxx. There’s an Eco version and a Family version.

    Look forward to your 2007 list.

    TR

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