Summary: <br> <br> Episode 190Our Top Roll & Writes<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> We’re going to talk about a few roll & write games today. But let’s kick it off with a fact about the number 190… Nick Martinelli reminds us that the grain alcohol Everclear is available at 190 proof (95% alcohol and that’s a high enough percentage to use it to make hand sanitizer!)<br> <br> <br> <br> Thanks to our sponsor, First Move Financial. Look out for scams related to the stimulus check! The Treasury Department and IRS will not call or email you. Go to <a href="https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus">irs.gov/coronavirus</a> and click on “Economic Impact Payments” to find out more about your stimulus check or update your information. And go to <a href="http://firstmovefinancial.com/familygamers">FirstMoveFinancial.com/familygamers</a> to schedule a 15-minute call and get advice that’s more specific to your situation.<br> <br> <br> <br> What We’ve Been Playing<br> <br> <br> <br> Roland Wright – from Perplext, by Chris Handy. Roll dice, draw colored dice into your personal grid. You’re trying to create certain patterns to match cards in your hand, but you will also erase dots to use special powers. It’s actually an engine-builder game in roll & write form.<br> <br> <br> <br> Endangered – from Grand Gamers Guild, by Joe Hopkins (we <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/episode-141-joe-hopkins-endangered/">had him on the show</a> about a year ago). We played incorrectly (and unintentionally made it a lot easier), but we really enjoyed it. The goal of the game is to win over the majority of “ambassadors” to your cause. But you won’t even know what their victory conditions are until you begin to try to win them over! Meanwhile, you’re also trying to slow the destruction of habitat and encourage the animals to breed.<br> <br> <br> <br> Bananagrams – (from Bananagrams) has become a good supplement to “school” for our older kids.<br> <br> <br> <br> 5-Minute Marvel – from Spinmaster Games. Our youngest loves playing this, and it’s educational in pattern-matching (aka “decoding”). We lose pretty much every time with him, and that’s okay.<br> <br> <br> <br> Monster Match – from North Star Games / Happy Planet. Another great pattern-matching game to play one-on-one with our youngest (as I mentioned <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/monster-match-can-you-do-the-match/">when we reviewed it</a>).<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://i1.wp.com/www.thefamilygamers.com/wp-content/uploads/SPSM_beauty.jpg"></a><br> <br> <br> <br> SNAP Review – Super Powered Smash Masters<br> <br> <br> <br> Listen to our five minute review of Super Powered Smash Masters, a simple dueling game of superhero smashing.<br> <br> <br> <br> Giveaway winner!<br> <br> <br> <br> Last week, Anitra wrote <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/monza-race-ahead-with-sequencing/">the last entry</a> in our series on HABA games that support learning.<br> <br> <br> <br> HABA and First Move Financial are making it possible for us to give away one copy of each of the games we wrote about!<br> <br> <br> <br> The winner of Brandon the Brave: Stephanie Cardoza! Congratulations.<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/giveaway-tiny-park/">Enter the giveaway for Tiny Park</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> Roll & Write Games<br> <br> <br> <br> Rather than give you a “top 5”, we’re giving you our favorite roll & write games for specific situations.<br> <br> <br> <br> Let’s start with a the ultimate, classic roll & write: Yahtzee. The very definition of a roll & write: You roll dice, you write some results down,
