Interestingly, the best new board game in recent years (if you count the late-90s as recent) is also one that plays like a virtual Greatest Hits of classic board games: Cranium.
Minneapolis has been designated the most fun city in the country by Cranium, a board game company in Seattle.
Their artwork, mechanics and themes are quite astounding in comparison to the relatively mundane bestsellers like Cranium or The Game of Life.
The brain child of Whit Alexander, an American who designed Encarta world atlas while working for Microsoft and later co-founded the popular board game Cranium, Burro's rechargeable battery renting service has arguably become the most affordable and sustainable way to power thousands of households in the west African nation which have no access to electricity.
Tonight, instead of racing to get their son and two daughters to some of the dozen or so practices they have every week, Jenny and Brian Given prepared a dinner of nachos and fish with their children, then played the board game Cranium.
Board game Cranium has found its way into grocer Whole Foods, where this Christmas greeters at 22 of the chain's supermarkets will wear wacky hats and hand out Cranium cards.
Moment isn't just coming out of nowhere, either: Barros and his team, which also includes top-flight optical engineers Michael Thomas and Russ Hudyma; as well as Richard Tait, co-founder of the board game Cranium; and Contour Chief Product Designer Erik Hedberg, have been working on the project for the past five months ahead of launching this campaign.
And the combativeness that Wagner learned to bottle up on the golf course is uncorked when the family gathers to play board games like Cranium.
Bratz dolls ($29.99 in the Prudential survey for one called Winter Wonderland), board games like Cranium ($14.99, compared with $14.73 at Wal-Mart and $16.99 at Toys RR" Us), and the Tonka Jr. Mighty Dump Truck ($7.99 at Target, $7.97 at Toys RR" Us and $7.96 at Wal-Mart) are among the selections.
The Hub's original-series lineup is heavy with Hasbro tie-ins such as "Family Game Night," an hourlong show in which contestants play giant-size versions of the company's familiar games including Cranium, Twister and Yahtzee.
