Target from thinktank games is yet another of their clever `179 price point collection. They’ve certainly got their pricing right, but on so many other levels, Target is all wrong. It’s politically incorrect. It glorifies guns. It’s a silly and irrelevant veneer on what is a perfectly respectable game that surely did not need this angle to sell.

Target from thinktank games is yet another of their clever `179 price point collection. They’ve certainly got their pricing right, but on so many other levels, Target is all wrong. It’s politically incorrect. It glorifies guns. It’s a silly and irrelevant veneer on what is a perfectly respectable game that surely did not need this angle to sell.

Mattel Games refers to ‘Blokus To Go!’, as the perfect strategy game for two players on the move. They can’t stop gushing about the removable storage panels that hinge onto either side of the game board. Or the clever manner in which the 42 game pieces snap lock smartly onto the board’s nubs. So you can’t really blame them for continually drawing your attention to this design innovation, where functionality is met superbly with engineering aesthetic.

When my truculent and die-hard non-vegetarian 11-year-old nephew visits India for about 10 days and stays in the staunchly vegetarian household of his grandparents, the trauma over meal times leaves a

As a year draws to a close, it’s difficult to not reflect on all that was done through the year, and all that remains undone. Resolutions are meant for the resolute.

It was already time for a farewell dinner for Priya. Sadly, work and travel hadn’t allowed time for intense board game sessions like we used to. We decided to give Rummikub a pre-dinner whirl.

Usha returned from another training session in Bangkok with a bunch of games which included The Sudoku Puzzle Game from Funville Games. I was delighted.

Priya is visiting India briefly. She was an avid board GAME player and a keen competitor against whom I pitted wits frequently. The many hours dedicated to Quoridor and such like made it only natural she came bearing games as gifts.

Battleship Hidden Threat from Hasbro takes a much loved naval warfare classic, moves it into a cards format, and builds in a whole new level of strategic capability.

I’ve warily picked up and put back Hasbro’s `999 Rubik’s Race several times over my last few visits to the games store.