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June recap! 114 plays, 72 games where 36 were new to me, mostly thanks to wonderful days at Origins in Columbus, Ohio. It's obviously all the games I got to play there that is the highlight of the month, even managed to get a game off my shelf of shame. Once I can buy games again om going on a spending spree 😆 #boardgame #boardgames #bgg #boardgamegeek #brettspiel #tabeltopgaming #games #bgstats #bgstatsapp #stats #statistics

My first ever Origins loot, traveling with only a backpack made what I could buy very limited, but still found some gold among the many things sold at the con. Seaside was one of the best games that we played, a fast push your luck game with big chunky wooden tiles. Ito is a party game that's a mix of the Mind and Wavelength. Tried it twice during the con, but looking forward to playing it again. Super Kawaii Pets is a really cute and fast card game. I hope to play it with my daughter soon, but I could for sure see this being played with my regular group as it's a solid game. Expansion for Mountain Goats! Adds a 5th player, and something more that inhavent looked into yet. Expansion for Star Realms, promo pack 1, and scenarios that adds special rules for that game. Very interested in that. Lastly, Codenames mini. It's a demo pack with small cards to try the game. I used to own it, but interested to play it again. #boardgame #boardgames #bgg #boardgamegeek #brettspiel #tabeltopgaming #games #origins #origins2024 #originsloot

Origins 2024 day 4 recap, aka Tobagocon! We finally got together to play our game Tobago, finally managed to win too! Other games: Surfosaurus Max - awful art, mediocre game Roll Camera - coop with a fun theme, but hard! Old West Empreasario - kind of a city builder, fun Orichalcum - been on my to llay list for a long time so finally got to play it, I liked it Stonespine Architects - really fun drafting and dungeon building game, loved it Butterfly - another game we play a lot on bga that we finally got to play in person Caesar's Empire - fast route building game that is really good Agueda - the Orgins hotness game #1 , we had to speed run it but interesting Remember Our Trip - a game I brought from Sweden. It's fine! #boardgame #boardgames #bgg #boardgamegeek #brettspiel #tabeltopgaming #games

Origins 2024 day 3 recap! 10 games played, 8 were new to me! (Also 1 prototype but I don't count that) Marrakech - the event has a giant version of this mat laying game, super fun. So Clover - a cooperative word game I've wanted to play for a long time, also super fun! Riff Raff - try to balance objects on a wobbly boat and hope you opponents fail. Super fun. Wyrmspan - better than Wingspan (which I don't particularly like), fun but too long. Very pretty. DroPolter - try to drop specific items using only one hand as fast as you can. Really fun. Explorers - this is one I own and love. This map drawing game is super fun. Super Kawaii Pets - the pets are sad, make them happy. Fast and fun card game. Luna Capital - dual drafting like Cascadia, but now you're bulind a moon base. It was very fun, want to play again. Enchanted Plumes - collect feathers and create your peacock plumes. Nice and interesting, fun game. Not pictured, Biblios, loved the first part of the game, interesting way of selecting cards. The auction was fine. #boardgame #boardgames #bgg #boardgamegeek #brettspiel #tabeltopgaming #games #origins #origins2024

Origins 2024, day 2 recap I managed to play 11 games, 9 of them were new to me! Switchback - a fast tile layer for the end of the game night. Full demo at the @allplayhq booth Kokopelli - a very interesting card set collection game. I'd love to play again. Mutton Bustin - a fast real time party game that's extremely silly. Makes me think of Happy Salmon in a way. I liked it. Trains - finally got to play this deck builder game, it's been on my to play list for years and I finally had a chance as it was in the library. It was fine, I had a good time, but not super exciting what so ever. Captain Flip - the Tobagocon crew @botticii @pmaz_plays_games @eljayoh_ and I played this on BGA, they love it, I despise it. So naturally we had to play it IRL at Origins. Ok, I'll admit, it's kind of good. Seaside - draw a tile, choose which side to use, try to collect as many tiles as possible Mille Fiori - a Reiner Knizia game with drafting and placing your acrylic pieces to score points. Great game. Parade - play cards to not get cards, lowest score wins Old London Bridge - the epiphany of a Queen Games game. They really should do better with the blue and green colors. The game itself was totally ok! Llamaland - a game from my own Shelf of shame played, i call that a win! And a good game too! Phil Walker Harding game with cute llamas. It was great. #boardgame #boardgames #bgg #boardgamegeek #brettspiel #tabeltopgaming #games #origins #origins2024

Origins 2024 day 1 recap! Finally get to meet my friends from the other side of the Atlantic, @pmaz_plays_games @botticii and @eljayoh_ We've been gaming online together since the pandemic and finally got to meet! First day we kicked off with Menara, great cooperative game about building a tower. Then we tried the new @real_queengames game Dabba Walla, a game of pick up and deliver split in two parts, the first part was great, the second not so much. I'd play again though. Then we played Harmonies, a really pretty game that felt like a mix of Cascadia and Calico. After that we went back to our house and played Exhibition 20th Century and Elawa (not pictured) Great day!

#firstimpressionsfriday🎲 and today it's Murano Light Masters, a game about collecting glass and creating glass sculptures. On your turn you move the dial in the middle, pick up 2 glass, and then you must make an exchange action to trade glass in some way. When you have enough glass, you can create one of your creations, however it can only be the first card in your hand and you're not allowed to reorganize the order (except for a special action). This game is fine. It doesn't do anything particular new, but it has a good flow to it and is very pretty. However, the space it fills is just loaded with better games, and I would always choose to play those before this. Still nothing wrong with it. 6 out of 10. Hashtag created by @kay_plays_games #boardgame #boardgames #bgg #boardgamegeek #brettspiel #tabeltopgaming #games #ボードゲーム #murano #muranolightmasters

May recap! 146 plays, 59 games and 13 new to me! Another excellent month, with a lots of Space Base, Castles of Burgundy and Next Station London! 3 of the new games stood out to me, Draft & Write Records, Solar Sphere and Gloomhaven Buttons & Bugs! What was your favorite game of the month? #boardgame #boardgames #bgg #boardgamegeek #brettspiel #tabeltopgaming #games #ボードゲーム #bgstats #bgstatsapp #stats #statistics

Another year, another birthday! Our happy boy turns 9 today! #corgi #corgicardigan #welshcorgicardigan #dogs #dogsofinstagram #birthday #birthdaydog #welshcorgi

It's #firstimpressionsfriday🎲 !!! Today I'm taking a look at Gloomhaven: Button & Bugs (2024), designed by Joe Klipfel and Nikki Valens, and published by @cephalofair 👥 1 player 🕔 20-39 minutes 🧠 Medium high complexity 🌙 You're a wannbe adventurer that suddenly got turned small, small as a button, and you have to fight your way through waves of rats, bugs and other enemies to find a way to return to normal size. ⚙️ This is a solo only version of Gloomhaven, in a much smaller box. The gameplay is much the same, play two cards and do one top action and one bottom action. However, the board is now just one small card with cubes on them, and your tiny tiny miniature. There's six characters to play, each with 4 double sided cards that you turn over once played. Instead of a deck of cards for attack modifier, there's a die and table that decides how well you did. All rules are simplified, and it's a fast paced solo game. 👍 Gloomhaven in a tiny box when you don't want to bring out the big one, the spirit of the game is much the same and while a bit too tiny for my taste, it's nice to get that Gloomhaven fix by yourself when you really need it. The card play is really smart, and it's a very well designed package. Loads of replayability. 👎 The dials to track your and the monster's health are too tight and near impossible to rotate. It feels like you will break them every time, and one day I will. It's very annoying when the rest of the game is so good. ⭐️ The original is of course way better, but I really love the solo version without having to spend 30 minutes setting it up. I see this staying a long time in my collection as I already want to explore all characters, even if it's a bit too tiny. 9 out of 10. First Impression Friday was created by @kay_plays_games #boardgame #boardgames #bgg #boardgamegeek #brettspiel #tabeltopgaming #games #ボードゲーム #gloomhaven #gloomhavenbuttonsandbugs #sologame #soloboardgaming

It's been a while since I did a #firstimpressionsfriday🎲 , but I'm back! Today I'm taking a look at Solar Sphere (2022), designed by Ayden Lowther and Simon Milburn, and published by @drandagames 👥 1-4 players (5 with expansion) 🕔 90 minutes 🧠 Medium complexity 🌞 Earth's resources has once again run out, so we must build a Dyson sphere to be able to become an intergalactic civilization. A common goal, but you want to build most of it and take credit for it. ⚙️ Solar Sphere is a dice worker placement, resource management, set collection game. Each round everyone rolls their dice, the player who rolls the highest becomes the start player, but rolling low gives you morale which is a currency you can spend to get bonuses. Each turn you place one die on any of the available spaces, you either do the action or place a drone, which will make the action more powerful for you in the future. You're never locked out of a location, even if you've placed there before, but if you want to use a location where a die is already present then it will cost you a drone, and drones are a precious currency in the game. Gather resources and crew, to ultimately build the dyson sphere. But of course, not everyone is happy about us taking the solar energy, alien factions show up at the end of each round to try to stop us, so players must work together to stop them. 👍 The variability is great, the sphere itself will be random each time, with different scoring cards to play with (in this game we wanted our cubes to be in a group), crew cards give different directions, and the aliens will be different each time. The drone mechanism was really fun. 👎 Rolling dice to decide who was the start player each round was very unsatisfying, you couldn't really plan for something you HAD to do by taking the start player token like other games. I'm interested to hear what the design choice for this was. 🤔 I really liked my one and only play of this. Fun and fast gameplay, interesting decisions, and a beauty to look at (note, KS-version used). ⭐️ An 8 out of 10. Great game! First Impression Friday was created by @kay_plays_games

A week's absence, but I'm back for #mysterymonday🎲 This week's theme is "co-op", chosen by @playedbymli When playing a co-op, you support each other to achieve victory. Here, the supports are literal. Can you guess the game? I missed last week, but two weeks ago the theme was "underwear" and by BRO in underpants was from the game GOLDblivion! #mysterymonday🎲 is created by @justthreemeeple #boardgame #boardgames #bgg #boardgamegeek #brettspiel #tabeltopgaming #games #ボードゲーム #goldblivion #coop #coopgames #cooperativegames