History Heroes: A Little Slice of History – Learning Card Game

[Ad- gifted product] If you are a frequent reader on our blog, you know we try out a new board game or card game every single Monday that Kai has DnD. Kai goes to our local Geek Retreat, and we all grab milkshakes and play a few rounds of something before his DnD starts. Robin, Amelia, Dann and I all took along the tiny box that contains History Heroes: A Little Slice of History. This box is small enough to fit in any bag or purse and simple enough to bring around with you when going out and about.

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Happy Salmon – Moving Around and Being Silly

[Ad- gifted product] Happy Salmon isn’t the normal type of card game we play at our local Geek Retreat. It’s one that might benefit from more space and not having a table in the middle of you. That said, as someone who has played it both ways, I do prefer having a table as a sort of middle ground, as otherwise people can get all in each other’s spaces and hard to move around! But, let’s get into the game.

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Exploding Kittens – Easy, Luck-Based Card Game

[Ad- gifted product] I feel like everyone has heard of Exploding Kittens, a card game known for having cute yet strange cat-related artwork on each one! Exploding Kittens is created by the same developers as Power Hungry Pets, but was their first ever tabletop game. Somehow, we have never played Exploding Kittens; likely as when the game came out, it would have been too complex for Robin. As we have all grown older, it made sense to finally pick up a copy and play it for ourselves.

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Cards vs Gravity – Stacking, Falling, Fun

[Ad- gifted product] When it comes to games that can be fun for all ages and travel well, Big Potato Games creates the best of the best. Cards vs Gravity is our latest look at one of their casual, fun, and travel friendly games that we were extremely excited to get our hands onto. This board game does require you to have a bottle to play. You can either use a glass bottle that can be empty or a plastic bottle that is at least half full of liquid.

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Pear Shaped – Frantic, Fast, Matching

[Ad- gifted product] Pear Shaped is the newest addition to our wall of table top games, this time featuring a very unique case for all of your cards! All of the cards are actually shaped like pears and fit inside a giant, bottom heavy pear. This pear actually acts as a timer and a key part of the game, so both the case for this game and the cards themselves are used in playing!

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