Chaos here! Confetti and I love getting together with our friends, and while we try to keep our time with friends fresh and interesting, not too surprisingly, general hangouts and board game nights are regular occurrences. Shocker, I know. Now, some of you may be able to relate, but as we get a tad older,Continue reading “Chaotic Considerations: Size Matters”
Category Archives: Musings
A Fan of the Fans
Chaos Here! A Week of Woe Leads to a Wrestling Pro Recently Confetti went on a work trip and I got left all by lonesome for a week. Just little ol’ me (and our one year-old and the dogs and the house ghost and the cat and the rest of my life that isn’t specificallyContinue reading “A Fan of the Fans”
Don’t Play Games with My Heart
Happy Valentine’s Day! We here at Chaos and Confetti are firm believers that any holiday is the perfect holiday for board games. They’re great ways to bring people together for some intentional quality time (you know, there really should be a board game holiday.” However, we know not everybody is down for a constant streamContinue reading “Don’t Play Games with My Heart”
Chaotic Considerations: Out of Print
WHEN THE HEART WANTS, BUT THE WORLD SAYS NO… Chaos here! Many years ago, a friend of a friend showed up with Love Letters, a simple card game. After losing twenty-one rounds in a row, I was the one who found myself enamored. I immediately purchased myself a copy and continued spreading the love (andContinue reading “Chaotic Considerations: Out of Print”
Visit to the Island of “Misfit” Games
Chaos here! A LIttle Background: The Shelf of Shame: The board games that you own but have never played (or have only played once) Most of us have games that we purchased with the best of intentions but have never really touched. Some of us have games that were gifted to us and now alsoContinue reading “Visit to the Island of “Misfit” Games”
Give Them What They Want: A Musing
Chaos Here! I would like to take a moment to talk about gift-giving. Now before you say, “Chaos, it’s not even Thanksgiving; can we hold off on gift talk?,” I should point out that gift-giving can happen any time of the year. So, this discussion is completely seasonally and chronologically appropriate. Also, I used toContinue reading “Give Them What They Want: A Musing”
Ain’t It Great to (Trade) Wait
Chaos here! A Little Background Starting before I can remember, I’ve always loved superheroes. Superhero toys, cartoons, movies, and other merchandise surrounded me, and I loved it. My parents dressed me as Spider-Man for my first Halloween costume, my cousins and I played with action figures all the time, and my mom always made sureContinue reading “Ain’t It Great to (Trade) Wait”
Nightmare Fuel: A Musing
Confetti is not shy about wanting to avoid scares or anything in her entertainment that might make her uncomfortable. She doesn’t do horror if she can help it. When something she wouldn’t like might happen in a movie or tv show, she is fine skipping right past it, checking the internet for spoilers, or evenContinue reading “Nightmare Fuel: A Musing”
Musings – Books Are Hope
I have books I want to read stashed all over the house and I’m sure my wife thinks I have a problem. I have a few books sitting atop my bedside table…and then a few dozen more inhabiting its lower shelf space. There are a couple books stashed on the living room mantle for easyContinue reading “Musings – Books Are Hope”
The Rules of House Rules
All hail the RULES AS WRITTEN (RAW)… or not. Nobody likes a cheater and game rules are designed the way they are for a reason. Despite what the Yu-Gi-Oh television show might have suggested at times, people doing what they want or pulling rules out of their butt isn’t cool, fun, or clever. Shifting rulesContinue reading “The Rules of House Rules”
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