Metroland Newsweekly
December 10-16, 1998
Keith Ammann
Albany , NY
USA

Here's the scenario: you want to put something fun under the tree, but you can only spend so much - or so little. (You know, obligations.) And you want to be sure that whatever you pick out, it won't be played once or twice and then left in the closet. It's gotta be eye-catching, and it's gotta be fun.

Lots of new games hit the market this year, but not all of them (to be blunt, not many of them) will stand the test of time. Luckily, it's still possible to find something that's both good and good-looking in nearly every price range. . . .

Anyone familiar with chess will get a kick out of Bosworth (Out of the Box, $20), in which two to four players are crowded onto a board with only 32 squares. Instead of standard chess pieces, the game uses cards labeled with chess-piece silhouettes, and the cards are deployed one at a time from a hand of three. Charmingly illustrated, Bosworth is guaranteed to appeal to chess fiends both young and old.

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