Bananagrams

Bananagrams is a popular and inexpensive game available from places like Target.  It is like Scrabble, in that you try to spell intersecting horizontal and vertical words with plastic tiles.  The main difference is that Bananagrams is fun where is Scrabble is not.

These dice are driving me crazy!

I played a game of Settlers of Catan recently, and was frustrated by the dice rolling.  I'm sure everybody has had this experience, when it seems like statistics have gone out the window.  You start to think that you should have built on that spot with an 11 instead of the spot with the 6, because that what keeps coming up.  It turns out that this is exactly what statistics says should happen, people just aren't very good at thinking about randomness.

Diablo 3 Skill Calculator

Blizzard has put a Diablo 3 skill calculator online.  It's not nearly as cool as releasing the game, but if you are as excited for D3 as I am, maybe this will tide you over.  

They did a good job with this calculator, it is easy to share builds.  Here is a Melee Wizard I whipped up.  I have no idea how it will actually work since I can't play the game, but it was fun anyway.  Plus it includes everything at max level, so I will probably never get a Rune as powerful as those ones.

Bizango Blast

Bizango Blast  is a one man iPhone game.  It is sort of like Angry Birds in 3d, in that you basically throw a flaming ball at towers of stuff in hopes of destroying stuff.  Its not as polished or as good as Angry Birds, but it does have some potential.

Carcassonne Expansions

Carcassonne is a fun tile/worker placement game with lots of expansions available.  You can get a bunch of them at once with  Carcassonne Big Box 3, or you can buy them separately.  I'll tell you what I think about the expansions I've played with, and some custom rules to improve them.  One cool thing about Carcassonne is that you can use or not use any mix of expansions.  You can even use tiles from one expansion, but not use it's special rules.