Tag Archives: games

All aboard the TrainSylvania Ghost Train to Pluckey

Too many Halloween puns and cliches have already bee attributed to our adventure down to the most haunted village in the UK today, so, we’ll stop ourin the headline. Yes folk, armed with games from Big Potato, Hachette, Thames and Kosmos, Exploding Kittens and a severed hand from Simba Smoby …

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Spooktacular and spirited high jinx – Its our Halloween playlist

Apparently one if five folk pretend not to be indoors at Halloween to avoid the Belsnikeler’s, yes, the German tradition that led to Trick or Treating. This All Hallows Eve pursuit from the Europeans involved kids knocking on doors dressed up and the person at the door had to try …

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All aboard for Entertrainment with Southeastern

For the first time, Southeastern has partnered with a ‘toyologist’ (aka me) and some play experts to give customers travelling on selected highspeed services this week a very special journey ‘EnterTrainMent’ runs through the first week of August and includes a fantastic selection of games for customers to play on their …

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Outdoor Toy Awards – Best in show for 2024

The winners of the Outdoor Toy Awards 2024 all received their gongs today after a weekend of rigorous testing by the 20 plus strong group of critics. Made up of a wide range of those most critical of judges an afternoon of serious fun took place after a number of days …

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Kidult market set to soar in 2024

Recent data from those in the know and the fodder on offer at recent Toy Fair’s suggest that not only does the Kidult market have 25% of toy sales in the UK 9a little less on the continent) but that, with major manufacturers sitting up and paying attention it is …

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Toy Fair UK kicks off tomorrow

   Although it is a trade show you’ve no need to fear as Toyology and its intrepid bunch of trend spotters and whats hot in 2024 hunters will bring you some of the best in show. In the mean time, here a clip of the show and how it …

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Scorchio – We’re in The Sun

If you’re off on the train, plane or indeed and automobile we’ve created a list for the UK tabloid which is, appropriately named for our heatwave this week. Check out our picks HERE

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Anarchy Pancakes from Exploding Kittens is Dobble re-invented

  Now we know Dobble doesn’t need tinkering with, it is just about the best card game on the market but, what if you could take the core gameplay and add some Exploding Kitten chaos to it? Yes, right, you’d want to try and thats just what the EK team …

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Chess has never been more interesting

    Well, another week and another slinging about of accusations by the leading lights in the game of chess. You could be forgiven for being cynical and thinking that they were both lobbying on behalf of the chess federation to get the game in the news, just saying. Anyways, …

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Happy Two’s day

It is the 22-2-22 a very rare occurrence of a date being both a palindrome and an ambigram, read it forwards, backwards and upside down – The next one will be March 3rd 2033 and of course today happens to be my Gran’s 92nd birthday too. Here’s some games from …

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