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The issue of public vs. private information in board games is an interesting one. If you have every played a board game of any complexity, you have dealt with the issue in some way. Most people ignore it completely or deal with it subconsciously or accidentally. Private information…
Continue readingNo, not “The Game of Life” board game: it sucks! I mean that some of the mechanics of board games are present in real life. For instance, one of the players a few nights ago made what they discovered was a bad industry placement as their first move….
Continue readingNot Alone is a card game where one player plays a monster/alien and the other players try to “hide” from it until they are rescued. Although the players can all cooperate, that seemed to happen very little. The game does not allow secret communications, or at least our…
Continue readingI exaggerate. It’s a great game for me an the group I play with but saying it is more than that presumes I know what every other board game player wants in a game and finds in this one. I played with three other people last night. Let’s…
Continue readingLast night was game night. There were three of us to start with and we played Azul. Azul is a cool tile collection and placement game that is like nothing I’ve seen before. We also played Power Grid with five players, Dominion with five players, and a game…
Continue readingMy daughter could not make it to the game group meeting on Sunday so some of us met on Saturday so she could play. Then the usual Sunday meeting happens but with the same people (less my daughter). A new game arrived and I called Tim and we…
Continue readingWednesday, March 21, 2018 – Wednesday game night set a record with seven people showing up. A few of us hung out in the bar playing Get Lucky (the Kill Dr. Lucky card game) while waiting for the rest of the group to show, and for the power…
Continue readingJust to be clear, I am discussing writing a 2D card game based on a board game and I do not have permission to write it or any affiliation with the board game designers or manufacturers. I don’t intend to share or distribute this game to anyone ever….
Continue readingWill and I played 7 Wonders Duel. I won. It was his first time playing it but he picked it up quickly enough (board gamers pick up news games quickly). Then Cameron showed up and we played Terraforming Mars. It’s our game-night go-to game because of the level…
Continue readingTim and I played Terraforming Mars and Antiquity. There was only two of us again (a few long time players seem to have disappeared) but 1-on-1 is a great way to play some of these games. Here’s the play-by-play action from the days game playing: Terraforming Mars I…
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