If you ask a second or third grader what dice are used for, you will get one of two answers. Math, or gambling. Or at least those were the answers I got when I asked my board game club what they commonly use dice for. And in both answers, these sharp young minds hit the nail right on the head. Death and taxes may be the only two certainties in an otherwise uncertain life, but some element of mathematics and the uncertainty of the outcome are the only two guarantees when rolli

The second week of board game club saw us try out a series of tile games, a particularly enjoyable week for the visual learners in the class who readily took to the spatial patterning in games like Kingdomino.