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The Chartes Labyrinth; Go; Mancala; and more . .

Maybe you’re bored. Maybe you would like to try something a little bit different; exotic;  . . . dangerous! In the comfort of your own home of course. How about a different board game. Woah. You can handle it! Your spouse will still speak to you afterwards! Your children will not shun you! They might Read More

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This Is Not Funny Anymore

It doesn’t matter what you think about Covid. Is it just like the flu or is it the end of civilization as we know it? Either way its not over. And I am still stuck in my freaking house all the time. Grrrr. I’ve already painted the bathroom and fixed the light switch in the Read More

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Play A Game . . . Maybe Two

Blog blog blog. Blah blah blah. OK why am I really writing this? To get more people to visit my website and make me rich. But why are you reading this? Don’t you have better things to do? Go climb a mountain or visit your grandmother. This is not literature. No one ever won a Read More

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The Board Game Poet

Mr. Meckers likes to play checkers Without regard to crowds of long neckers. As for chess Its a mess That is unless You talk to Tess. But the gang was jamin’ Fishin’ for salmon And playin’  backgammon! So everyone plays cribbage Can you say fribbage? (Or how about arbitrage?) My knees checkers are tyin’ ‘ese Read More

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Why Play A Boardgame?

Why play a board game? Really.  Don’t you have something more important or more exciting or more fulfilling to do. Like . . . Reviewing your financial portfolio? Cleaning the bathroom? Reading Faust? Who cares about a game of checkers these days? What’s to be learned by playing a game of backgammon? Chinese Checkers is Read More

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The Perfect Gift

What is a perfect gift? That depends of course. Who is it for? What’s the occasion?  Is there a pandemic going on? Let’s get to the point. We have the perfect gift for Christmas for your entire family especially this year. If you’re spending more time at home with the family what do you DO? Read More

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America’s Game

Atlantic City New Jersey: boring. Second rate gambling casinos, dismal neighborhoods, yucky cotton candy. And street names we all know from putting little green plastic houses and red hotels on to collect rent. How about something new and more exciting? How about America’s Game. The most expensive high rent properties are Wall Street and Madison Read More

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Chickens Playing Board Games

What do chickens and vinyl records and board games have in common? They all squawk? They all scratch? They all throw dice? They are all a part of a general retreat from the digital world. The digital world has been designed primarily for purposes of control. Control of data transmission, data storage, output, time, space, Read More

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Who reads testimonials?

As for me I just don’t have time to read testimonials on websites. Not that they might be informative or useful sometimes. But really, they are usually quite predictable and shall we say . . .  boring. Not so with the testimonials found on www.americangametable.com!! They are fantastic! Pardon my hyperbole maybe “fantastic” is just Read More

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Everybody Likes The American Game Table

A while ago we started to wonder exactly who was the most likely kind of person to buy one of our game tables. So we did a phone survey of 100 customers who had previously bought a game table. Amazingly every single person contacted still had their game table; still used it at least from Read More