Unboxed the Board Game Blog

With more and more games releasing every year I find myself drawn more and more towards thematic narrative style games with new and interesting stories to explore. However, with so many great ones on the market, I can't get them all to the table. So here is a list I put together of the ones I want to play right now, whether I own them or not!

We’ve always been Party Game people. Some of my earliest memories of family gatherings are us playing Trivial Pursuit, Dingbats or Charades. I remember going to parties at friends’ houses and discovering new party games we didn’t have like Pictionary, Boggle or Balderdash.

In 2022 I played 23 new games, not all from 2022, in fact probably very few from that year, but I wanted to make a top 10 list of the best ones I played...

I have been painting now for around 25 years and I paint on average once a day, but even I sometimes burn out and go through periods where I feel uninspired to sit down and paint. So here are my top ten tips for upping your motivation and getting yourself pumped to paint.