The 25 Best Board-Game Mobile Apps to Play Right Now

Our current golden age of tabletop gaming has also led to a similar surge in mobile apps that adapt board games to tablets and phones, with new ones arriving almost every week and some games even premiering in digital form at the same time they show up on store shelves. I’ve tried more than 50 such apps, all of which are based on games you can actually buy in stores; these are the best of the bunch.

The Acupuncture Puzzle

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The Best True-Crime Podcasts of 2022

The genre remains as abundant as ever, and the year produced plenty of strong projects. Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics. Photo-Illustration: Rowena Lloyd and Susanna Hayward; Photos: Courtesy of the Studios Best of 2022 The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vulture’s critics. [Corn Kid voice] It’s crime! Well, true crime. In the year of our lord 2022, the podcast genre remains as abundant as ever, and just as we are committed to highlighting great, interesting, and innovative shows that make distinct contributions to the medium, we figured we should do the same for true-crime podcasts, which are a universe unto their own.

The Black and Yellow Puzzle

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The Catch Series Premiere Recap: Lets Play

The Catch Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Catch Pilot Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Mireille Enos as Alice, Peter Krause as Christopher/Benjamin. #RealTalk, this show’s title should be changed to I Would. As in, “Pheebs, would you smash Peter Krause?

The Challenge: All Stars Recap: Ice, Ice Baby

The Challenge: All Stars I’ve Got the Power Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Challenge: All Stars I’ve Got the Power Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “At the end of the day, Jemmye is always gonna have Mama’s back.

The Coiled Ferocity of Zendaya

Challengers is the ultimate example to date of what has become a distinctively Zendaya screen energy. Photo: Pari Dukovic for New York Magazine Photo: Pari Dukovic for New York Magazine Denis Villeneuve’s two Dune films are bookended by Zendaya’s face. It’s her voice as the Fremen warrior Chani that you see and hear in the opening flash-forward of the first movie, introducing viewers to the universe of 10191 wherein the indigenous warriors of the desert planet Arrakis are battling the evil Harkonnen family.

The Comedy Mask

Only when we lose members of our comedy community to suicide do I think about the most recognizable symbol of our profession: the icon that means comedy worldwide the way two snakes coiled around a staff means medicine and a striped pole means barber. This is the mask the Greeks called Thalia, with its arched eyebrows and Nixonian nose, mouth frozen in a manic and mirthless grin that surely must have inspired the artists when they created the archetypal disturbed clown, the Joker.

The Greatest Joke Ever

“You know my favorite. It’s your favorite too,” my Bubbe said to me with the same rascally grin she had when she first told me our favorite joke. Though, it was now missing a few teeth, from when she said “fuck it” with her dentures, around when she moved in with parents for hospice care. Still, teeth-be-damned, she couldn’t withhold that smirk. See: it’s a dirty joke; it’s a dark joke; it’s a joke that over time has drifted onto the wrong side of political correctness; it’s the greatest joke ever.

The Haunting of Hill House Recap: Not Your Place

The Haunting of Hill House Eulogy Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Haunting of Hill House Eulogy Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The first sound we hear, in the first episode of The Haunting of Hill House, is of a child crying.