Paradox Games

A Real Ripoff, Literally.

Mattel's "Apples to Apples", formerly owned by Out of the Box, inspired an entire generation of social games, such as Gamewright's "Joe Name It".  It also inspired one other game that lifts the idea straight out.  "Cards Against Humanity" is t...

In 1977, a Sci-Fi Epic was born from the mind of a then little-known creative mind.  Since then, the world hasn't been the same.  The story of deadly conflict between two warring factions unfolded before us.  We became immersed in its story.  The epic endured and grew,...

If you're like anyone who grew up on a diet of Pac-Man, Centipede, and Asteroids, you still love the classic video games.  One of the great home systems was NEC's Vectrex.  This system was developed as a soultion to the problem of making use of a monitor surplus.  The...

The MH collecting paradigm has changed over the last year or so, and the boy dolls are IN, barely spending any of their time on store shelves.  The buzz this year is the introduction of the SLOW MOE doll, which was shown in Mattel catalogs as part of Monster High's...

The popular TV series, The Big Bang Theory, perpetually inserts nerd culture into the show via props.  In one episode, Howard and Leonard play USA-Opoly's Donkey Kong Jenga, for instance.

Recently, on the episode, The Misinterpretation Agitation, the program fe...

BraveRats (2014)

A MicroGame from Blue Orange Games

This is Paradox Games' first review.  We'll also review video games and write Retro-Reviews of games from classic eras.

Blue Orange Games has been the force behind a few concepts, most notably Spot It, th...

Pip It is a colorful dice strategy game from Paradox games.  The game is easy to learn but addictive.  The object is simple: each player begins with dice in four colors.  One by one, players for rows and columns with the dice one of two ways:

1) The dice...

Proliferation! began development as a solitaire strategy game.  It was inspired by The Life Game, which originally appeared in Omni magazine in the 1970s.  In Proliferation, the player charts the progress of a society across generations, from its inception until...

Paradox Games is a new game company, and we are proud to introduce our first game, Pip It.  Pip It is a colorful dice strategy game for two to four players.  Don't let the word "strategy" let you think the game bogs you down with lots of thought.  There is stragety inv...