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Board Game Confessional

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I have a confession to make. I have become addicted to board games. Correction. I have developed a board game-related addiction. And it's called TableTop . I'm not entirely sure when this happened, but at some point within the past two years I began researching a new Christmas gift purchase for my lovely wife. She had expressed a desire to spend more time together that wasn't around the television (which can be really difficult in this day and age). TableTop  is a web series hosted by  Wil Wheaton . Each episode features one board game (usually), where Wheaton briefly explains the play and mechanics of the game and then proceeds to play the game with his three guests for the duration of the episode. But back to my new found quest for a new board game... I hunted high and low for new and/or interesting titles at the local stores. I scoured the internet for board game reviews. The results were often overwhelming. Additionally, the fact that the sticker price