ANOTHER game night for the Nordgrens ONE and DONE

Another fun game that our family got to try. For all those who have followed our gaming journey, it’s a bit like Blank Slate- except there are teams involved- there are also ways to sabotage the other team. I think this would be a great game of a big group- especially if you add in the harder parts. Says ages 14+ and I would say that is pretty accurate, not due to anything inappropriate- just for the difficulty of the game. I think you could easily play this with a group as large as 20 people, if anyone wants a coupon code let me know!!  

Another Fun game night from The OP and Tryazon

 

We were able to have another fun round of game parties. Mish Match is a game I would say is between the card game War and Spot it- It is a fun game that kids of all ages really enjoyed. Tapple 10 is a spin off of the full board game called Tapple. this game has the same concept but there are 10 different ways to play this game. We enjoyed one where you have to a specific topic and then a card that tells you what the word must start with and the first person to guess a word that fits gets the card. First player to ten cards whens the game. The other night we played that game with four adults and three kids and it worked out well for everyone! Thank you to the theOP and Tryazon for choosing us! 

Fuzzies Game Night brought to you by Tryazon

Fun to get to try games and share them with you when everyone is starting to look for that new hot game for buying during the Christmas season. This is like quiet Jenga- The goal is mostly the same- make a tower of fuzzy balls and then depending on what color the card is take a fuzzy off and place it higher on the tower. If you knock any off then you have to take as many cards as you fuzzies that got knocked off and complete those tasks moving forward. My kids really enjoyed the fuzz balls and trying to get them to stay together. We had a little friend over for the evening and he LOVED playing the game, we may not have followed the rules then but he had a fun time watching the balls fall.  Thanks to Tryazon and ASMODEE games for allowing us to host this party. 

Casa M Spice Company and Tryazon Party

What a great line of products from Casa M Spice Company. Hosting a party for Tryazon, we got to try the Casa M Spice Company's Stainless Shaker gift set (it retails for $134.99 or a little over $16 per spice. I loved the variety that they had for different types of meat. They had spices for beef, chicken, fish and a few all purpose seasonings as well. 

We enjoyed trying the season all for our burgers and they gave off such good flavor. I love the name of the beef one as we live deep on beef country. Cattle Drive actually means something to us! I also love the feeling of the stainless shakers they feel so nice in the hand and put just the right amount of spice with each shake. 

We even got brave and tried the Hooked spices (my family is not a huge fish eating family. We had some trout we had bought awhile back and used this to make a blackened fish. It was very flavorful and even our fish avoiding kids thought it was pretty good. 

The only thing I thought was a little weird is on all the ingredients the first ingredient is "spices" there are very few different ingredients listed after that so I am just curious as to what "spices" means. We were very happy with the products and thankful to Tryazon and Casa M Spice Company choosing us. 

 

Bestway and Tryazon air mattress party

We have always loved the Bestway brand- we already have two mattresses- a queen size high topper and a twin sized high topper. This one is a queen sized low bed and we were very impressed with how well it worked, also how quickly it aired up. It only took 90 seconds to be from flat to ready for use! My 17 year old 6 ft tall daughter used it for a whole week when we were on vacation. The sheets stayed on, it stayed aired up and she really enjoyed it. Thank you to Bestway and Tryazon for letting us host this party! 

Chronicles of Crime Game night review

 

We got picked to host another Tryazon game night. This one is from Asmodee USA. It is a who done it and why crime scene investigation. You have to download the app and check out crime scenes (you can use VR if you have it which is a cool feature) you also interview people and try to figure out what clues you find. It is a game that takes quite a while to play. The game is suggested for people 12+ and I would say that is a pretty accurate description of who can handle this game. They do have expansion packs if the game is enjoyed enough to do that. Since it's a crime scene investigation with the currant game it allows for one tutorial and four games. Which take around an hour a piece. It was a bit difficult for us getting started but once we got into it, we became detectives and enjoyed trying to figure who who what and why of our crime. 

Spot It game night with Tryazon

 

I had not heard of this game Spot It! Apparently my kids played it over Christmas break with their two younger cousins. So they were excited when we won this party. We got two sets of Spot It! The original one and then a fishing one . The object of the game is to find the one matching image on a card. There are a few different ways to play it, you can put two cards out at the same time and find the match and winner gets both cards, you can put one card out and then each player has the same number of cards and when you see a match you put it on as the top card and play until you run out of cards, or you can set it up kind of like a memory game and just try to find the matches with nine cards out there. We really enjoyed the game and were surprised at how it was perfect for any age. We also went online and found that there are so many different versions of the game. My kids are interested in the ones that are for their favorite NFL teams. These are in such a nice case, and it's a fast and easy game I know we will use them often when we are traveling. Thank you Tryazon for allowing us the opportunity to try out these games!

Wavelength Board game night from Tryazon

Another fun game review from our friends over at Tryazon. Today we have Wavelength and Spots. The main game was Wavelength- it is a "mind reading game" to see just how close you can get to matching with your team. A card may say has a good reputation/has a bad reputation and then the person who reads the card spins the outside wheel to see where points are. When I did this for my video it was pretty close to the left so good reputation- I said not quite Mother Theresa but if it would have been close to the bad side a good clue would be "your least favorite politician" We thought this game was pretty fun. 

Spots is a dice game where you try to get all the spots filled on your dog cards. It took a LONG time to figure out how to play this game, we did like it but by the time we actually played we were a little over it since it took us about 45 minutes to figure out how to play. I think we will enjoy it the more we play and it's pretty easy to explain to others. 

I had never heard of this company, but the games are different than anything I have ever played and are well made. Thanks again to Tryazon and Asmodee USA for picking us to host! 

New Games from the Creators of Exploding Kittens and MAN do I have some opinions!

 SO first off- thank you to Tryazon and Exploding Kittens for letting us try out a few of your newer games. The first Game we got to try was called Really Loud Librarians- It's just a funny title because we know that no librarian is really loud! I work in a school and I do want to take this into her media center and see about her having some kids play this! It's a word shouting game- trying to think of words that start with certain letters in certain categories and work your way around the track to rack up points for your team. 

The second game was called Throw Throw Burrito- these game reminds me a bit of playing spoons as a kid, except with this game you throw squishy burritos at people we played this as a family. Four kids, each two years apart, very competitive, every time we played it someone left in tears. I am not sure what it is about a flying burrito hitting you in the face, but some in my family did not appreciate it. I think this is more of a friends game than a family game! LOL 

Happy Salmon was our very favorite. Each player starts with 12 cards they say one of four things, Happy Salmon is one card where you slap another players arm like a salmon, fish bump (fist bump) switch it up (switching places with another player this can turn into quite the debacle! LOL and high five. The point of the game is to match with another player do the action and then go to the next card. First player out of cards win. This game is hilarious to play and to watch! We had so much fun with it and it's a super fast game, taking just around 90 seconds from start to finish. I want to take this game to school and play it with my students but I am not sure the other teachers down the hall would appreciate it!