Power Grid, Machine of Death, Settlers of Catan, Forbidden Island, Password.
Also Doug & Laura, Mary and Stan, Jackie and Scott and Kaylee, me and Margie and Kay, and Randy.
And beer and grilled sausages and shrimp and chips and other good things.
A nice day-after-Independence-Day.
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How did Machine of Death go? My group wasn't very good at it.
I need to get a group together to give Machine of Death a try. Husbandperson got a copy via Kickstarter, but we haven't played it yet.
My son adores Machine of Death. I thought the book was better…
Ours was from Kickstarter, too. It was … interesting. Everyone around the table was a heavy-duty puzzle-solver from D&D-style games, but with different sensibilities as to what was realistic, conceivable, or aesthetically pleasant with the items involved. It seems tome that you'd need to play a number of games to calibrate those sorts of values among a play book, otherwise you have someone trying to make things work like "James Bond" and another like "Ren & Stimpy".
Love Power Grid. Cool to see other gamers out there.
Also of note that i think this was the first time of Game Days at the Consortium that I managed to win not just one game, but all of the games I was in, with special thanks to Margie on Password.
Grats, @bd!
Also forgot to add “Tsuro” to that list.
Have you played Smash Up? That's one of my recent acquisitions, and is much beloved by my group. (Naturally, I had to get The Obligatory Cthulhu Expansion. Yes, that's its actual name.) They even played a game of it on the Munchkinland podcast this week (for the same reason I got it: Steve Jackson Games announced a Munchkin expansion for Smash Up.)
I have not. I will have to look it up.
Very cool mechanic. You mix together two small decks of separate factions to form a deck that focuses on a couple of mechanics and then try to control bases with your minions. The core game includes aliens, dinosaurs, ninjas, pirates, robots, tricksters, wizards, and zombies. The Cthulhu expansion adds a new mechanic (Madness, naturally). There are other expansions, making a huge number of deck permutations, greatly increasing replayability (I expect).