June 2017 roundup
03/07/2017 12:51 PM
This month, I managed to play 22 games of 15 different titles, with 9 of them being new to me. The new games were: == NEW GAMES == The Blood of an Englishman – 2 plays –  8  First Published 2016 Very nice asymmetric puzzle wher ...

May 2017 roundup
01/06/2017 03:16 PM
During May, I managed to play 16 games of 13 different titles, with 5 of them being new to me. The new games were: == NEW GAMES == Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure – 1 play –  8  First Published 2016 This was a really fun deck-bui ...

April 2017 roundup
01/05/2017 12:14 PM
April was a better month for gaming than March was, as I managed to play 31 games of 23 different titles, with 13 of them being new to me. The new games were: == NEW GAMES == Mmm! – 3 plays –  8  First Published 2015 This Knizia co ...

March 2017 roundup
01/05/2017 12:12 PM
Oops, I forgot to post this last month but better late than never. March proved to be a very light month for gaming as I only managed to play 14 games of 10 different titles, with 5 of them being new to me. The new games were: == NEW GAMES == Un ...

February 2017 roundup
01/03/2017 01:08 PM
In February, I managed to play 43 games of 37 different titles, with 13 of them being new to me. The new games were: == NEW GAMES == Flamme Rouge – 1 play –  8  First Published 2016 X nimmt! – 1 play –  8  First Publi ...

New game meetup
11/02/2017 08:45 AM
On Thursday evening, I took the 15-20 minute drive to Congleton to try out a new game group: the Congleton & District Light Board Games Club (bit of a mouthful but reasonably good description). This is a new group that have only had a couple ...

Fruity Geishas
07/02/2017 10:02 PM
Yesterday saw us dig out Fabled Fruit. It was Jan’s first and my second play of this. I really enjoy the simple turns and the prospect of the game developing through multiple plays by introducing new action cards. The game is short so it r ...

Finished yet?
05/02/2017 09:51 AM
Last night, Jan and I played one of our favourite relaxing games, Finito. It’s a Take It Easy style puzzle game where the roll of a 20 sided die determines where within a 6×6 number grid the players have to place one of their 12 bakel ...

Star Wars: The Meeple Awakens
03/02/2017 08:51 PM
Tonight we played Carcassonne: Star Wars Edition for the first time. I was playing Yoda and the force weak with him was. Jan kept beating me every time I tried to attack her planets (and she had quite a few of them). The final score was close bu ...

Looting the Louvre
02/02/2017 09:03 PM
Tonight’s game was the fun dice game, Dice Heist, which we played on our Caribbean cruise last year and Jan won it easily. This time, I turned the tables by pretty much ignoring the paintings and going for gem groups. As a result, I ended ...