First play of Ticket to Ride with the kids

This weekend we also reintroduced Ticket to Ride: USA to the kids - as Roshni and Maya were a little older now, they joined Anita and I in teams to play it out - as usual I lost to Anita but the kids found it very enjoyable so we'll be playing this again in the future.

Dusting some old games off and how to stress out a 7 yr old!

We have decided to sell off the games trunk, so this was a chance to pull out some unused for a while games and give them a play. Gulo gulo is one such game. The idea of the game is to steal different sized and coloured eggs from a wooden "nest" with a stick with an egg weight wedged in. When an egg is stolen, the player risks the stick falling. During a turn, the player turns one card over of a path of cards that indicates a coloured egg to steal or decide to go for a coloured egg previously revealed that may be easier to steal (ie bigger) but would only move the player a short way up the path.

Eventually the players reach the end of the path where there is a pile of egg cards and the player has to turn each one over, removing the indicated egg. Eventually a purple egg card is revealed - and if successfully stolen (quite a small egg!) then the player wins. If ever the alarm stick falls, the player has to move back to the last coloured egg card they attempted to steal.

This is a great and fun game, but can generate high stress in a Kerplunk manner that that can be almost unbearable! lol. The tension in the faces in the pictures says it all!!

Holiday gaming!

Just because we up sticks and go away on holiday to Derbyshire for a week, doesn't mean we stop playing :) Firstly we had a game of the old favourite Citadels, deftly won by Anita.

Couple of days later we had a play of Zooloretto - not played this in a while - again won by Anita! Both great games to enjoy over a beer, wine (juice for the kids!) and Doritos!

Memoir 44 Campaign Book

Another addition to the Memoir 44 game; after winning £70 in the World Cup office sweepstake, I used a bit to buy a cheeky gift for myself from Battlequestgames - the Memoir 44 Campaign Book 1 (by the sounds of it there will be several of these on the way).

It looked quite thin but it is action packed with masses of scenarios, campaigns, a sheet of thick punch out components (re-enforcements, landing craft, obstacles, smoke counters etc), plus new info cards, campaign tracking sheets. A brilliant book and well worth it.

Fancy a game of Dominion? Nope, lets play Citadels!

We were planning to play Dominion tonight, but we decided on a game of Citadels - nice little game; poor Maya got hit badly by a Thief card when she gathered up a stash of gold and lost it all to Roshni!! She was not happy :( Nice little game - Roshni won in the end with two special purple cards that gave two extra gold each at the end.

"Why did our Dominion game last 1.5hrs?" forum post on Boardgamegeek gets a big response!

After our first game of Dominion, we were wondering why the game lasted 1.5 hours (the box says half an hour) and we still hadn't finished - there was still at least 8 of high scoring 6-point Victory Cards. So I posted a question on the General forum of Dominion on Boardgamegeek. And blimey did I get a reply! See it here at: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/540511/play-lasted-1-5-hrs-in-first-go

Big thumbs up for "gun camera picture" on Board game geek!

A picture I used in a recently blog post on Memoir '44 that was engineered to look like gun camera footage has received high praise on boardgamegeek after I posted it on there! Many thumbs up and comments - it even got onto the home page!

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/754100/memoir-44