Dragon Punch, Pocket Paragons, Slip Strike, Control.
Came to echo Sleeping Queens; we’ve also implemented house rules to allow the use of multiplication to make it more challenging for my nearly 9 year old, and also that if you can use all 5 cards in an equation you get to go again.
9 likes Unstable Unicorns too; there’s a fair amount of fuckery involved in a game where most of the rules are broken by the cards themselves. Not too difficult for an adult - more of a party / drinking game, but she likes the unicorns and has an evil streak that embraces crushing me and / or her little sister.
eta: 9 also really enjoys backgammon fwiw
Skull pops so well on a table that it easily replaces most other filler games in my groups and it’s so simple anyone can play it.
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Heckmeck (aka Pickomino) is my standard minimal set-up, small tablespace commitment, arbitrary number of players, filler timescale go-to.
Monopoly Deal should do the trick. It’s just as fast to set up as Uno, and it’s a little more strategic, with some action cards that make it unpredictable too. Although I also concur with Fox in the Forest and Sleeping Queens.
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With good ventilation, masks, and vaccines, there should be little to worry about.
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Yeah and everyone wearing masks. Seems like a good crowd
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Made it to top 4 in Hero Realms tournament today. And then got knocked out 2-1. Still happy with that.
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So I bought 2 games at Pax Unplugged. Still more tomorrow, but I am done buying.
I bought Everdell and Dice Throne.
I might have gone a little overboard on Dice Throne and bought the full Season 1 and Season 2 boxes.
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Would that I could. I like Dice Throne and would like to own them all.
Dice Throne is a lot of fun - though i need to play it more
Bought all in on one of the previous S1+S2 + Dice Throne Adventures.
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I just bought Everdell kind of on a whim without knowing a ton about it. I know it is popular, I know Dire Wolf is making an app, I know it is a fairly light game, I know the expansions greatly enhance it, and I hope it is something my family enjoys. I don’t know why, exactly, it jumped past so many games on my wish list; perhaps I’m enjoying the woodland theme of Root and my kids’ Redwall audiobooks too much. I’ll report back in a week after I’ve got some games under my belt.
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Mission #8 in my Storm Above the Reich campaign!
Are things getting any better for Staffel Roy?
Read it and find out!
We just played our first games of Everdell and it was a big hit here. My wife and 9yo daughter looked at all the pieces on the table and groaned, but it was very quick for them to figure out how it all works and they loved the theme. Big fan of this game.
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Yes. I’ve played only once but quite liked it.
So we have been going back and forth between playing Everdell and Dice Throne this past week.
I will say that for Dice Throne, the 3 player King of the Hills rules are really nice and because of them we have a very even split in winning between my daughter, my wife and myself.
As for Everdell, still very popular, but I have won all the game so far.
I liked the game enough to add the expansion Spirecrest to the game, and it is a fantastic addition. I highly recommend the Collectors Addition (for both versions) because the additions are cool, both the gameplay elements and the cosmetic elements.
Spirecrest is nice because it mostly does not interrupt play, but expands change of season events and creates new ways to earn VPs. Very well done.
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This is not really about the table or digital as much as a recent realization about board games in general. As I am playing through a first game of LeHarve and played the AI a few times, I find that I don’t like it much. In a similar way that I don’t like Brass, Agricola, San Juan, Tigris&Euphrates and other games that all seem to have something in common, they are pre-2010.
With the exception of Ticket to Ride, all of the games I like most are 2011 or later, with Castles of Burgandy being the 2011 game.
Since I don’t have a play group other than you fine folk, I don’t think I really ever thought about it, because I just play what is digital. So I am just now seeing that I guess there is a 2nd wave of board games that starts around 2011? Is that right?
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‘Kind of’. You can’t pin it down, AFAIK, but there was definitely a ‘second wave’ of modern designs around that time, starting IIRC around 2008 and producing designs in the following years that are probably still making up most of the modern games (or their direct inspiration) today. Tigris & Euphrates is much earlier though, and it’s not a euro, if you will allow me one mildly grumpy point. It’s essentially an abstract.
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