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Ruta Bancos Gigantes or Huge Bench Route in Andalucia

A new rage is slowly spreading across Andalucia with its beginnings in the province of Malaga and that is huge benches are being installed in beauty spots across the region. The Huge Bench Route or  Ruta Bancos Gigantes #rutabancosgigantes can be found on Instagram  where they are more active with updates on the new installations of these enormous benches and they have a   Facebook  page too. Map of the Ruta Bancos Gigantes The initiative started by Forest Green an agrobroker company that supplies and works with treated wood to large construction and environmental companies in Spain. The huge bench route is steadily growing, with constant new installations spreading across Andalucia. The enormous handmade wooden benches are 4 metre long and 2.3 metre high, with the seat being 1.3 metres above ground and needing steps to get onto them, appearing in natural beauty spots hopes to encourage people out into and  enjoy the views and of course take photos to be ...
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Family Games - Draco and Roll for Gold Reviews

Draco is the new family friendly game that was sent to me by Tactic Games in conjunction with Blog-match.com. It was fun. My twelve-year old overheard the coffee call, set up the game read the rules and waited to oversee our first game.

Husband against wife, mum against dad. We had a laugh. A simple backspin action of a counter sent to knock down a dragon hump or two, add it to your own dragon (which is more like the Loch Ness Monster) and the winner is the one with most humps when the main dragon has lost all its humps.

It´s fun, fast, easy and has minimum rules, I loved it, we all loved it. Make it a quick game using fewer humps or a longer game with all ten humps in play.

It´s strategic enough for older ones, fun and simple enough for younger ones and the boredom threshold and having to wait for a go is minimal.

This game for two players or in teams is well thought out, lively and speedy. The only thing I didn´t like was the absurdness of gaining power by knocking down a hump. The rules I thought were very condescendingly written and gaining power by adding a hump or two really turned me off.

I think had I read the rules first I´d have had trouble even setting the game up to play, fortunately my son read and dechipered the rules for me.

Draco is available online, for more information see Carousel Toyshop.

Roll for Gold is another game I was sent to review by Tactic Games. After a very confusing start we deciphered the rules and played a basic, lack of strategy game not unsimiliar to the game of Frustration.

It´s rather less frustrating than Frustration, if you love that game you´ll love this one and if you hate that game well be prepared to feel the same.

Any game that depends solely on dice doesn´t rate highly in our household. Saying that I think for younger players from 7+ it´s probably a good introduction to board games.

Once we´d mastered the not very well explained rules it improved, but I don´t think it will see daylight very often now it´s found space in the cupboard.
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