ScottVee Gaming

This was just hilarious.  It's a very simple game for kids, but one of the cutest ideas we have seen in a while.  Your goal is to collect five different colors of acorns.  You spin the spinner, and it says to either pick an acorn of a specific color, or 1 or 2 acorns of your choice, or steal one, or lose a turn.  That's all. There is a large squirrel prop in the box, and it turns out to be a big pair of pliers.  You use that thing to pick up the acorns in its squirrely hands and put them into the matching color holes in your stash. The presentation of the game in its big tree-shaped box with all the colorful pieces and pet squirrel inside -- it made us feel like kids again. That's the whole game, but the game was so darn cute, it was hard not to chomp on Anne's fingers with that big squirrel toy.  This one is going straight to the 4-year-old grand-niece (sort of) who needs a squirrel to play with.     The squirrel even helped us put the pieces bac...

After a two-day trip to Temecula found no worthwhile games in any thrift shops, and no game shops in the area, we hit a jackpot on the way back from a haircut in Vista today.  The Goodwill shops in Temecula had hardly any games of any kind, and a disgruntled guy explained how they "sell everything good on their website these days," but the Goodwill in Vista says otherwise. We found Chickapig (which looked like a strategic piece-moving game), Shut the Box (because we've mentioned it a few times recently), a rudimentary molecule model kit (my house feels oddly empty without one ... once every few years) and the Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game! (which qualifies as a WTF find). Then we went to Pair-a-Dice games again, because the Leggs gave me a gift certificate at my birthday party.  Of course I overdid it.  Gift certificate times 5.  These days, one of the challenges in shopping for games is trying not to buy something that's just an expansion you can't use.  There ...