Hear the phrase "parlor game" and you may conjure up a mental image of men and women in straight-laced, Victorian-era duds gathered around a fire in a stuffy, overly formal sitting room. You wouldn't ...
As a child, Ontario-born entrepreneur, Laura Robinson (no relation to me), loved playing parlor games. Harnessing her childhood passion, Robinson has forged an entrepreneurial career path inventing ...
Games are making a major comeback — even the Maison & Objet theme at Paris Design Week this year was "House of Games." Swap the remote control this holiday season for one of these luxury parlor game ...
How did our ancestors pass the time during long winter evenings? Through parlor games—simple group games that require little equipment and can be played in a living room or parlor. These games ...
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, mirror games were played to both petrify the players and predict the future.
In these times of self-isolation, as people spend a lot of time indoors with only a few others, many Monopoly games and Ludo sets have probably seen the light after many years lying forgotten in a ...
Everyone is familiar with the ancestral guessing games wherein somebodyleaves the room, etc. But it is seldom that the world is favored by an account of such a game played by so illustrious persons as ...