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Posted in BoardGames on May 28th, 2007
A wet and windy afternoon indoors, with the girls happy to busy themselves playing quietly meant we got a chance to break out Caylus. This is a game, similar to Puerto Rico, of resource gathering, production and management. I’d not read very much about it and although I’m aware how popular it was, I […]
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Posted in BoardGames on May 27th, 2007
Lost Cities, ah the game I can’t win. This game is deceptively simple to play, has very few rules and yet still I lose, against Vicki, who didn’t know the actual rules. In our late-night game on Friday night.
This two-player game is played with a deck of custom cards, in 5 colours, with single […]
Popularity: 17% [?]
Posted in BoardGames, Challenges on May 25th, 2007
My first game that came off the list was Hive, played against Grace. She’s 4, coming up to 5 and understands the game well enough to know when she’s going to lose, but not really about how to go about winning. She does enjoy it though and when she’s played when she’s really concentrating, […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2007
Listening to The Spiel’s podcast today they have a nice piece about trying to get their “Games Unplayed” list down as low as they can - apparently it’s been as low as 30 or so, and currently stands at 120 or something. A nice problem to have! It’s a nice idea to add […]
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Posted in BoardGames, Challenges on May 21st, 2007
According to BoardGameGeek I now own exactly 100 games (technically I have to wait until Caylus arrives here, but it’s only a day or so away). You can view my collection here. In order to celebrate this milestone, my challenge is going to be to play every one of these games within a […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2007
Ok, well that was easy. A new blog is born!
The one thing the world doesn’t need is another blog by some random person, telling other people what they’ve eaten for breakfast, or what the view looks like from their window; To avoid falling into that pattern this blog is for me to write myself […]
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