Summary: <br> Welcome to another episode! Our fact this week comes from Dwayna. 193 is the current number of member nations in the UN.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Episode 193<br> <br> <br> <br> Evolution: Education Edition<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Thanks to our sponsor, First Move Financial.<br> <br> <br> <br> We’re going to talk about Evolution: Education Edition with Scott Rencher, but first – let’s talk about what we’ve been playing!<br> <br> <br> <br> What We’ve Been Playing<br> <br> <br> <br> Claire is prototyping a 18-card cake-building game. We’ve had fun with it so far – and the 18-card constraint is a handy way to put boundaries on the design (and make it quick & easy to change).<br> <br> <br> <br> Speaking of 18-card games… we <a href="https://buttonshygames.com/products/desert-pack">pre-ordered Desert Pack</a> from Button Shy. This deduction game was designed by <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/episode-95-fire-tower/">Gwen Ruelle and Sam Bryant</a> (AKA Runaway Parade, makers of Fire Tower)!<br> <br> <br> <br> Rock Paper Switch from Mindware. (Andrew saw this game <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/episode-183-ny-toy-fair-with-efg/">at Toy Fair</a> this past winter.) Think of chess crossed with rock-paper-scissors, and it is playable at 2, 3, or 4 players.<br> <br> <br> <br> Kingdomino proves to be <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-QToigka4/?igshid=h2tlzu6e1g0u">nice practice</a> for spatial relations, multiplication, and mental math.<br> <br> <br> <br> Animal Kingdoms (review coming soon).<br> <br> <br> <br> Tussie Mussie – Anitra will never say “no” to this one. Nice that it’s competitive in terms of “make mine the best” rather than dragging down other players.<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/forest-of-fun/">Best Treehouse Ever: Forest of Fun</a> hadn’t been played recently.<br> <br> <br> <br> Women in Science – one of <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/women-in-science/">first reviews</a> we ever did! Light and easy to play, but piqued our boys’ interest in learning about the various scientists.<br> <br> <br> <br> Tajuto from Super Meeple is an interesting Renier Knizia game about building pagodas. It starts so slowly. We wonder if that’s because we only had two players or if there’s something else about it.<br> <br> <br> <br> Giveaway<br> <br> <br> <br> You still have a week to enter our <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/giveaway-monza/">Monza giveaway</a>. It’s become one of our favorite HABA games, and as far as we’re concerned, it’s the Candy Land killer. Enter right now!<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/abandon-all-artichokes/"></a><br> <br> <br> <br> SNAP Review: Abandon All Artichokes<br> <br> <br> <br> Claire and Anitra tell about this fast-moving deck-building (or “deck-wrecking”) game. Read the summary and see pictures on the <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/abandon-all-artichokes/">SNAP review page</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> Interview: Scott Rencher from North Star Digital<br> <br> <br> <br> Scott is involved with the creation of the digital version of the <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/evolution-survival-of-the-fittest/">Evolution</a> boardgame. They’ve just released a specifically education-targeted version of the game, and we’ll talk about that.<br> <br> <br> <br> Game Scott has been playing<br> <br> <br> <br> Quacks of Quedlinburg (not to be a company man, but…) Scott likes it for family play, because there’s enough randomness that adults don’t need to throw the game. Apparently when he plays with his adult family, they all cheat!<br> <br> <br>
