As our kitchen is still offline, Jackie and Scott kindly hosted Game Day for this month, with the theme "Bring a bottle of wine you're not sure about." Played were:
Machi Koro – [NEW!] Catan/SimCity resource management city-building made simple. Lots of fun. Look forward to replay. (Also known as "Minivilles" in some circles.)
High Society – [NEW!] Clever auctioning as you buy the most ostentatious goods while not being the most cash-poor at the end.
Catan – But of course. Two games played, actually — and +Kay Hill won the second one.
Guillotine – A fun standard.
Tsuro of the Seas – [NEW!] Adding the random element of kaiju makes this more difficult to plan in than the original "Tsuro" (and makes things a bit less elegant), but it also lets you play with more people. Net-net, a somewhat different but still enjoyable game.
Scattergories – Classic party word game. Always enjoy this one.
Password – I am so glad that +Mary Oswell is as fanatical about this as I am, and that both of us have such cooperative spouses.
Good times had by all, so far as I could see.
Oh, you play Guillotine! So much fun in such a small game! 🙂
I'll be playing Cthulhu Wars tonight. I'm so eager to try it, it's been set up for three days!
I have Catan and Star Trek Catan, but they haven't hit the table yet. My GAS (Game Acquisition Syndrome) has caused me to buy too many other games recently.
My copy of Password (printed in 1963) doesn't see much (OK, any) play, but a picture of my friends "playing" it won me a pair of "Bance!" dice and 10,000 points from the folks at the Flip the Table podcast. (If you haven't heard that show, I urge you to listed – it's a hilarious show about old-school board games. Oh, and I won another 10,000 points when they used my "dungeon room" submission on their show about the Justin Bieber games.)
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+Scott Randel "Guillotine" and the analagous mobster game "Family Business" are both a lot of fun.
I won the first game of Catan. The last turn Scott, Jackie and I were all a point away from the win and it all came down to who got a play to get to 10.
Excellent roundup of games. I haven't played Machi Koro yet but everyone says good things about it. My dice games lately have been Pandemic The Cure and Roll for the Galaxy. I can't recommend both of these enough. Pandemic is incredibly challenging yet has fun dice manipulation and Roll is civilization building with dice and tons of dice manipulation. Love em both!
+Jon Weber I have Pandemic and haven't found it as all that as so many others have. But other games built on the same sort of mechanic have been appealing to me, so …
Will look up Roll for the Galaxy, thanks. Though, honestly, at this point, I almost need to take a breather on new games, as there are so many good ones I already have that don't get enough Game Day love …