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Review: Keltis Oracle is a great, light strategic board game for iPad, iPhone

by Sebastian Blanco (May 13th, 2010)

Keltis is a relatively new marquee family of board games – in Europe, at least – with a somewhat meandering history. The series started as the Lost Cities card game, which evolved into the original board game in the series, Keltis. That game won the Spiel des Jahres, Germany's highest ...

Review: Gorgeous Small World app shows board games can be great on the iPad

by Sebastian Blanco (May 6th, 2010)

Considering how good Small World (US$4.99) – the first big Euro board game of the iPad era – is, fans of these sorts of games are in for a really wonderful ride. While this app isn't perfect, we're here to tell you that it's well worth your time. Maybe you've seen Apple pushing this ...

Review: Bananagrams is addicting without the clicking

by Sebastian Blanco (Apr 20th, 2010)

Perhaps you've seen them, in Word Wars or another Scrabble movie; people who are a wee bit obsessive about their word games. For the iPhone-carrying among them, there is the official Scrabble app or Words With Friends. For people who like a little more variety in their word game apps, there are a ...

TUAW Faceoff: Skat vs. ProSkat on the iPhone

by Sebastian Blanco (Apr 14th, 2010)

We've covered quite a few board and card games in this ongoing series of iPhone / iPad app reviews, but I haven't been as excited about any of them as I was when I saw that there was not just one but two Skat apps available for the iDevices. Considering that Skat is my absolute favorite card game ...

Review: here's hoping the Kachina board game app gets some serious kinks worked out

by Sebastian Blanco (Apr 9th, 2010)

The tile game Kachina came to the iPhone/iPod touch platform in waves. First, the app appeared as a single-player puzzle game using the Kachina rules. Then, an upgrade with in-app purchase allowed you to spend US$2.99 to get multiplayer functionality. Now, the Kachina app [$2.99] that you can ...

Review: Hey, That's My Fish Honey, That's Mine!

by Sebastian Blanco (Apr 6th, 2010)

Board gamers looking for ported game apps on the iPhone (and now, finally, the iPad) might overlook the just-released offering Honey, That's Mine [$1.99]. The game uses little honeybee characters that fly across a board of hexagons to collect drops of honey. As they leave a location, that hex is ...

Review: Viva il Re board game app asks to be crowned

by Sebastian Blanco (Mar 1st, 2010)

The iPhone might be the most amazing computer you can slip into your jeans, but there are some things it just doesn't do very well. For example, you can't really get into a bluffing match against the machine, at least not with the iPhone/iPod touch app Viva il Re ($1.99). Here's what we mean. ...