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Month: March 2016
Board Game Terms.
Filler Game-n. A game with very simple rules and an extremely short playing-time. This type of game is frequently used between games that are heavier.
Examples are:
Games I Wish I Still Had.
I loved this game. The main rule was to Lose all your money. Yes LOSE all your money. If you do that you win. This was the first time I ever heard that in a game.
I guess if I want to fork out some cash I can get it here Mad Magazine Board Game
CODENAMES
Get your copy here Codenames
This is becoming one of Robins favorite games. Robin likes that it’s a party,word,deduction game. Its very ease to teach and you can play with 2-8 players, Each game should last about 20 minutes. In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin.
Great review here.
Game Night @ MOMS
KickStarter-Flag Dash
Ok If we can play a game about building quilts, then Capture The Flag is a no brainer. I loved playing Capture The Flag as a kid and even played some intense college games as well. I have only backed one game so far from Kickstarter but have purchased many games that started on kickstarter, so this may be one that I back. What do you think about this game?
Blast From The Past-Chopper Strike
Here is one game I loved playing as a kid and I’m seriously thinking about hunting a copy of this game down. If you have this game and want to get rid of it, let me know.
PATCHWORK
Get your game here Patchwork Board Game
So who wants to play a game about building quilts? Probably not too many of you. I thought the same thing. Robin was more like they will make a game out of anything. This is true and is the game any good or any fun? The answer is actually yes! Patchwork is a two player game where you both have a board where you will build your quilt on. You put pieces together and try to fill your board best you can. Kinda has a Tetris feel to us. Check out the following review and if you get a chance to play it I would.
Ticket To Ride – UK/Pennsylvania Map
One of my all time favorite games is Ticket To Ride. So of course when I heard there was a new expansion, I couldnt wait to get it. When I found out it was The United Kingdom and Pennsylvania I was even more excited but confused on the 2 choices. But its Ticket To Ride so I didn’t care.
I have not played The Uk side yet. It seems to be way more complex of a game then I’m use to the series being. But it looks awesome. We did play The Pennsylvania side and thats what I will be talking about. It is for 2-5 players with a special variant for a 2 player game. We played with 4 players.
It is like your basic Ticket To Ride except playing this map uses a deck of Stock Shares, representing actual historical railroads that operated in the region shown on the map. When a player completes a route on the map, they have the opportunity to “invest” in a company through the use of the Stock Shares, with control of each company awarding bonus points at the end of the game. The bonus points are based on who has the most of that particular stock , the second most gets a little less points and so on. I really liked this addition and the map is fun learning new routes. The thing we struggled with is the scoring of the Train routes you put down. The rules are not very explicit nor is there a scoring chart like with all the other versions. We went ahead and scored them as to trying to find the answer out online, many people divided. No official word yet, that I could find from Days Of Wonder. So if you hear, let us know? So we went ahead and scored them like you do in the other games. We found that doing this there were a ton of points scored in the game. We will try again next time and just score routes and stocks and see if it changes game play too much.
Order your copies here:
Ticket To Ride
Ticket to Ride Map Collection Volume 5 : United Kingdom Board Game
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