Posts Tagged ‘ board game column ’

Settlers of Catan: Board Gaming’s Last, Best Hope for the Future? “This must be just like livin’ in paradise!” – David Lee Roth Although an article-length feature on Settlers of Catan probably seems redundant to many at this point, I feel that the game still deserves further written treatment, at the very least for...

As a history major, I have often found myself struggling to find practical applications for the ideas and knowledge gleaned from my discipline. Far too frequently, the study of history can take on a remarkably dull form, like the boring memorization of supposedly vital dates, names, and places. Recently, however, I have begun to...

Detective Instinct: Investigators and the Many Pratfalls of  Cooperative Crime Fighting Investigators is an exceptionally rare cooperative board game in which each player represents a detective in Big City, where a relentless crime wave is threatening the public. During each turn, the detectives of Big City travel the board discovering clues, while trying to...