I played old fashioned marbles (no board?) with my six year old the other day. It was a good time and a fairly cheap game to get into
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awesome, quality time with the kids is always important. I haven't played marbles since I was in elementary school.
Lately I've been playing mostly Age of Steam, 18xx, and have gotten some of the beginner COINs done. Last night I met up w/ a friend at a local pub and we played some tricktakers: specifically The Crew and Vidrasso.
We love The Crew. I've wanted to try some COIN games, I owned Falling Sky for a while, but lost my game group shortly after.
I've heard it's a good intro. I happened upon a group doing a teach of Cuba Libre so I hopped on there. Then Andean Abyss became available online at rally-the-troops.com, so I played a couple of games async there.
Sadly probably Monopoly on my phone. I wish there were more single player board games, it's a social anxiety nightmare to meet people but I do miss the board game nights I used to have when I lived elsewhere.
yeah, I've moved fairly recently, and haven't found a regular game night to go to in my new town.
There are a number of good boardgame adaptations on the phone, several with async multiplayer as well as pass and play or vs a computer.
There are also a ton of solo-able games, depending on how complicated you want things to be.
I haven't played a game this way in several years, but I've had good experiences in the past playing games PBeM facilitated by ACTS (Automated Card Tracking System) and VASSAL.
Played Nemesis: Lockdown about a week and a half ago. Had a ton of fun with it and planning to play it again soon.
Also did Under Falling Skies, which is a great solo game!
Sheriff of Nottingham, Crokinole, Tash Kalar. Not a huge fan of SON but the kids enjoy it a lot, Tash Kalar is a personal favourite, and Crokinole is well... Crokinole! Always a good time.
Kids have been at summer camp this week, so we've had alittle time in the evenings to play some games.
We stretched Merchant of Venus over a couple nights, which is always a favorite of my wife's. We play FFG Edition, Classic Rules. She trounced me, getting to our target of 2500 Credits while I was still at 1700. Normally she plans her moves, but this time was much more open and loose with her turns. She ended up all over the eastern half of the board and picked up several relics that let her really fly through the various gates.
Last night we played Mint Imperium a mint-tin version of Star Wars Rebellion. Now...I love rebellion, both with and without the expansion. but sometimes you don't want a 3 hour game. Mint Imperium takes it and condenses the experience both physically, into the tin, and time-wise into about 45 minutes.
The rules do kinda assume you've played Rebellion, so there are a couple gaps in how they present information.
My oldest son loves Oceans, so when a request for it comes up, I try to oblige. It is definitely 'nicer' than Evolution, and the combos are fun. My youngest son (6) wants to play, so we let him in...and try not to take too much of an advantage with having a partial player in. We help him just get big combos and cool animals.
Sometimes we play with the # of fish for a 2 player game, this time I forgot to adjust and had the # of fish for a 3 player game, so we ended up with very well-developed species. I had a great combo of a, apex predator and a deep sea kraken. The kraken lets you attack again, with every attack after the first going straight into points rather than population. My oldest put a Cthulu leech, which steals population, and forced me to give up on my kraken. Then he jumped ahead with 2 species...translucent, communicating, whale cleaning mammals, and translucent, schooling, filter feeders, that i could never create the right circumstance to attack.
Then we broke out Blood Bowl Team Manager. Yet another game I had owned in the past, then traded away. I found a F:ATtie selling this, so got a good deal on it + Sudden death.
I remember it being a 'middling' game, but it was worth more than I was paying for it. Oh man, was I wrong. We had an freaking awesome game.
3 players, Vampires, Elves, Chaos.
Early weeks, Vampires gained lots of fans. Chaos did okay. Elves had no fans, but lots of upgrades and star players.
Week 3, my elves thought they were in good shape, and had a chance to tackle and steal the ball. I had a 4 star player able to tackle (Aurora Silverleaf). She began my reign of terror, wherein I rolled 'X' 5 dice in a row. Silverleaf rolled double X's and tackled herself. A Wardancer tripped over her own feet. The following week Silverleaf ended up in my lineup again and somehow rolled double X's again!
Vampires figured out how to use their thralls to absorb some punishment, then feed on them to power up his vampires. Chaos was having great fun with cheating Beastmen.
in the Final week, The winner of the Blood Bowl was going to take it all. We threw everything at it. Each team ended up with 3-4 players in the bowl. My Death Roller (the Crushinator) ended up with 4 cheating tokens. the two other players I had were cheating as well. and we would have won it all! the Death Roller got through all 4 cheating tokens without getting expelled....then the other two players were ejected!
Vampires 36, Elves 35, Chaos 34. One of the boys actually exclaimed "This game is awesome!" which, I'm not sure I've ever heard before.
Le Havre.
Factory Funner
We've been playing Canopy, a two player set collection game. We enjoy games with a bit of push your luck and the artwork is really nice
Played "Camel Up" and "Mantis" recently. Both really fun and very accessible for both kids and casual board gamers. Some all-time faves in a similar vein are "Coup", "Santorini", and "Machi Koro".