I alternate between loving and hating to buy a new house phone. Of course I am always excited to get something new but I hate the shopping part because I am so picky. I looked for a few weeks and even tried another phone before this one but I hated it. This model AT&T phone is just want I was wanting. This phone has two handsets with only one that has to plug into the phone jack. The other ...

I have been a verizon customer for quite a few years. One of their plans is called new every two. Every two years they give you $100 credit towards a new phone. This year I got the new Red Chocolate Phone. The regular price is $150. With my $100 credit and a $50 rebate, I got my phone for free.This is a really good phone. I like the compact size and I almost always have good reception. This pho...

I got the nintendo ds game sims 2 castaways. I love all the sims games and couldn't wait to get this one. I like the game. It is fun to play and easy to start. But the game doesn't take very long to play and it has no re-play value. Every time you play it you will do the same things. But it is still a sims game and I am glad I bought it. It was a lot of fun to play and the mini games ar...

I bought the game Mah Jong Quest Expeditions for the nintendo ds. This game has 3 different ways to play. Quest- which goes board to board playing mah jong. Classic game has 32 different boards in the standard mah jong style. Puzzle game has 32 boards in unique layouts with special tiles that match the layout. The classic game is my favorite and I never get tired of it. Even though the layout i...

The boardgame Ticket to Ride is created by Alan R Moon and put out by Days of Wonder. This game is not available in most department stores or even toys r us. I bought this game online at thoughthammer.com.In this game the board has a map printed on it. You can buy United States or Europe. The board has colored tracks going from city to city.You get destination tickets. You try to collect the co...

Bohnanza is a game of beans. It is a card game where you plant beans, trade beans and sell beans. You start out with five cards. You can never change the order of cards in your hand. On your turn you plant the first one or two beans in your hand. Then you turn over two cards. You either have to plant these cards or trade them to somebody else. Sometimes you just give them away to get ...

Settlers of Catan is a board game that is fun to play for many different reasons. Every time you play ist is a different game. It takes anywhere from sixty to ninety minutes to play one game depending on how many people play.In this game you have tiles laid out on the table to make a map. These tiles are either sheep, hay, brick, lumber, stone. You take turns placing one settlement and one road...

Citadels is a card game where the players take on different roles each hand. There are eight different characters in the original game and more in the expansion which now comes free with the original card game. You take turns secretly picking out your character. There is some surprise and some predictability as the first person to picks knows more than the last one to pick. The order to pick ch...

Carcassonne is a boardgame that is different every time you play it. You start with one tile in the middle of the playing area and then on your turn you turn over a tile and place it. you have to place the tile appropriately. For example you have to have the roads going the same way. You build your map this way. You build roads, farms, cities. You have markers you place in these areas as you bu...

Lost Cities is a two player card game. There is a small board you place in the middle of the playing area. You are each dealt eight cards and there is a draw pile. The cards are in five different colors and the board has spaces with the matching five different colors on it. On your turn you play a card and then draw a card. The object of the game is to start and "expedition" in one of...

A card game based on Puerto Rico. The cards consistof production buildings (indigo, sugar, tobacco, coffee, and silver) and "violet" buildings that grant special powers or extra victory points. Cards from the hand can be either built or used as money to build something else. A seven-card hand limit is enforced once per round. You can get special cards that allow you to hold ...

Puerto Rico is a boardgame for three to five players. It takes about ninety minutes to play a game. In this game you pick a different role every round. You can be the governor, prospector, settler , trader, etc. Corn, Indigo, Coffee, Sugar and Tobacco are the crops you raise. You build buildings and store your goods till you are ready to ship them. You get so many settlers every turn and have t...

Modern Art is a bidding game. In this game you have five different artists. Every player is dealt cards every round with the amount of cards decreasing as the rounds go on. You take turns auctioning off paintings by one of the five different artists. The artist who sells the most paintings is marked number one and the one who sells the second most is number two and so on. You make money by buyi...

Mystery of the Abbey is kind of like Clue but harder. Like Clue there are cards that are dealt out to the players. You only have to decide who the murderer is, not where and with what. Every player is dealt three cards and you have to land on certain spots or go to certain areas to see more. There is a time limit to the game in that there is only eight rounds. This game is also a lot like guess...

In this game you build your alhambra. On your turn you have three different choices. You only get to do one, usually. You can either take currency, which is in four different colors. Or you can buy a piece of your palace. There are pieces on a board with the color of currency you need to buy it beside it. If you can buy the piece with the correct amount of currency you can have another turn. Af...

In this game you have different tiles. House tiles, landscape tiles (ocean, forest, hill and field. You have to place a house. Each house has a border that matches one of the landscape tiles. You must match all four borders with the correct tile (ocean, forest, hill and field) to score points. If any don't match then you lose points. Of course as you are trying to build your house, your opp...

This game is based on the card game Bohnanza. This game is its own complete game. You don't have to own Bohnanza to play this. In this game each player is a bean trader. You travel from town to town buying beans and selling beans.  When a player is in a city and has an order card and the necessary beans to fill the order, he may deliver the beans and collect the value of the order...

Picross for the nintendo ds is a fun puzzle game. I am still learning how to do the harder puzzles.  Picross starts off with a blank graph. there are numbers on the top and left side almost like a crossword puzzle. You pick which blocks to fill in and which ones to leave blank based on the numbers. when you solve the puzzle you see a picture. Picross starts out very easy and helps you lear...

Simcity ds is based on Simcity three thousand for the pc.It has mini games and a new advisor. You can actually pick your advisor at the start of the game by answering a few questions. If you don't like the advisor they choose you can say no and get the default advisor. In this game you have three ways to play.Build a city, Save a city or sister city. There are some fun things to do with the...

For Sale is a fun card game where you have two phases. In the first phase, you all start with some money and then you use this money to bid on properties. You turn over three properties and whoever bids the most money gets to pick which property they want. Whoever drops out gets last choice and loses half their bid. The cards are numbered from one to thirty with the nicer houses on the higher n...