Tabletop Tuesday - Holiday Guide

With the holidays coming up, you may be at wits end what to get for one of your kids, a niece or nephew, holiday grab bag, nerdy friend or what not. So your pal Niel is here to help you. These are some of the games that I reviewed this year as part of my Table Top Tuesday series. They are all fun (for kids and adults). I haven’t been compensated for this list, it’s just a suggestion. So enjoy some non-screen time with those you love ... or slightly like this holiday season.

Great for little kids

Simon’s Cat: A really fun sequential matching game with adorably humorous cats.

Great for Bigger Kids

Snappy Dressers: A matching game featuring hipster sloths, deer and other well dressed animals.
Build or Boom: A race to build complex structures before your opponent can. And then blow up their structure.
Happy Salmon: A race to get rid of all your cards, not for the timid.

Great for Teens and Adults

Expedition the Roleplaying card Game: A great roleplaying game that you can play without reading hundreds and hundreds of pages of players guides.
Hanabi: A cooperative game where all the players work together to put on the grandest firework display.
Math Fluxx: The latest version of the FLUXX franchise. The card game with both no rules ... and a million rules.

Christmas time @ Target

I was in Target this morning. Because that's where I hang out apparently. And the place is Christmas central. Foxes in scarves. Little birds in cozy looking wool hats. And ofcourse they have every iteration and accessory for the holiday classic,  Elf on a Shelf. For starters EoaS has only been around since 2005. So it's not a holiday tradition. It is drawn in a very 1950s style to fool people. This so-called tradition is barely ten years old. 

But it has gained so much popularity the only thing to do is to rip it off. Ripping off successful formats/concepts the true tradition of the publishing industry. Book plus plush add a little "tradition" - voila!  I found these two gems at the store. 

 

I can't wait till Valentine's Day season begins on December 26th.