We started the night off playing Biblios. Biblios is a great game split up into two phases where you first do a card by card player selected draft followed by an auctioning phase. The goal of the game is to acquire the most points which are represented in the game as dice. These dice represent different genres of monastic books and they come in five different suits where three of them have values of 1 and 2 and two of the suits have values of 2,3, and 4. Continue reading “Thursday Meetup 09/13”
Thursday Meetup 09/06
We started the night playing a really weird game called Schüttel’s. In this game you have a cup with some pawn pieces in different colors. As far as I can tell those colors didn’t mean anything so they may be for a more advanced game or we didn’t play it right possibly. Continue reading “Thursday Meetup 09/06”
Thursday Night Meetup 08/30
Thursday night we played a collection of quicker games. We started off with Megaland, which at first glance looked to me like Machi Koro, but then you quickly realize it’s more like a more complex version of Incan Gold. The objective of this game is to acquire 20 coins which are essentially points. Continue reading “Thursday Night Meetup 08/30”
A List of Solo Games I Own and Play
The following is a list of games that I currently own that I have played solo. Some of these games I play a lot more than others. In some cases I don’t like the solo version of the game at all and prefer to play it multiplayer.
My Intro Part 1
I will talk about how I got into the modern board gaming scene. I grew up in the 80s playing all kinds of games, but most of the time it was on the Nintendo. I did play some board games with friends in the neighborhood like Othello, Monopoly, and Battleship. However the Christmas of 1989 I was introduced to a game that really shaped how I viewed tabletop games. That game was HeroQuest by Milton Bradley and Games Workshop. Continue reading “My Intro Part 1”