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Today’s Postcard from Bunchland comes from Badger416 in Toronto.

A family round of board games is a cottage tradition

Has your family cottage trip ever included a rousing round of board games? The shouting as the competition gets intense, the pitting of half the family against the other, maybe the odd accusation of cheating. It’s the perfect kind of unplugged fun, and if your cottage is anything like ours you have a stack of dusty old games piled in a corner, ready to be pulled out on a rainy day or after dinner.

Or maybe a closet full of them like in The Royal Tenenbaums. Swoon.

While your family may be perfectly happy playing that beat-up old box of Pictionary summer after summer, consider adding some new and still completely awesome board games into the mix. We got our friend Randal, owner of Toronto’s Toy Space/board game expert extraordinaire to talk about his must-have games. Here are his top five.  Read more...