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Game Review: Trophies

December 22, 2020 GAMERT GameRT, Games

Age range: 8+ Players: 2-30 Playing Time: 5-15 Minutes Style: Board Game Publisher: Façade Games Review: Everyone is poised at the edge of their seat, coiled springs. Cards fan

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Looney Labs is a Real Favorite at One Midwest Library

December 22, 2020 GAMERT GameRT, Games

Who is the lunatic who ordered all of these Games? That would be me, Dana E. Scott, the Loud Librarian. I am the Director of

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Game Review: Patchwork

December 7, 2020 GAMERT GameRT, Games

Age range: 8+ Players: 2 Playing Time: 30 minutes Style: Board Game Publisher: Lookout Games Review: Patchwork is an incredibly satisfying, and low-key game that

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Game Review: Assassins Creed Valhalla

December 7, 2020 GAMERT GameRT, Games

Age range: 18+ Rating: M Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Action/Adventure, Open World Platforms: Stadia, PC, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X Review: In

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Game Review: Dutch Blitz

November 17, 2020 GAMERT GameRT, Games

Dutch Blitz is a card-game competitive card game and is geared for 2-4 players with each hand lasting 5-10 minutes. With a low difficulty level,

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Game Review: French Tarot

November 10, 2020 GAMERT GameRT, Games

The French Tarot Card Game is a strategy game that is both cooperative and competitive for four players which has a 78 card deck. The taker tries

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Boggle die and tray with a sand timer

Virtual Games Programming: Boggle

September 8, 2020 Alec Gramm Game Programs, GameRT

To make the mildest understatement of the year, let me just say it has been quite a year thus far. For many in the realm

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Running a West Marches Campaign – A Flexible Approach to RPGs for Libraries

August 23, 2020 GAMERT Game Programs, GameRT

By Jennifer Burdoo As youth services manager of a medium-sized library, and the only gamer, I have the freedom to run RPGs for kids and

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Literary Video Games, Part Three

April 20, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT, Games

By Thomas Vose Part One, covering the classics up to the 16th century, can be found here, while Part Two, describing games based on books

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Top 10 Games Based on Books!

April 15, 2020 Thomas Vose GameRT, Games

By Jenn Bartlett President Jenn Bartlett has another awesome video for you, with her top 10 tabletop games based on books!

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