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[–] ShunkW 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just recently found Qawale. I've been having a blast with my best friend playing it and we're both getting better at it. Every game now comes down to the wire and it's so much fun win or lose.

[–] thorbot 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, never heard of that one before. I tend to skew toward larger euros though! For 2P my go to is beer and bread or patchwork

[–] thorbot 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just got Unsettled in the mail and I’m freaking out! It’s so damn good and I’ve only ever played it in TTS. Currently playing Wenora task A.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/49052aaa-0744-4553-9ea7-8fa5dba81ff7.jpeg

Played Ark Nova with the Marine Worlds expansion last night, favorite part is the asymmetric action cards.

Played some Apiary with friends a few days ago, 3rd play and finding the crazy combos is tons of fun, though it does seem like a classically imbalanced Stonemeier game.

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain 3 points 1 year ago

My 3 year old daughter and I have been playing candy land and chutes and ladders like it's going out of style.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ticket to Ride, kids version. It's pretty good.

[–] thorbot 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is the only game my nephews didn’t really care for out of all the kids games I’ve played with them. They like Echidna Shuffle, Hammer Time, and Labyrinth the most. It is a good game though!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll have to take a look. Thanks for the titles!

[–] thorbot 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure thing. They like Pokemon so I got the Pokemon version of Labyrinth and printed and painted some custom tokens for the starter Pokemon! They turned out great https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3a610d8c-d68b-4736-8770-f1c82c445f83.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] thorbot 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] thorbot 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! The kids love them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twilight struggle with a friend of mine. There's a bit of a learning curve,but both of us were new to the game. We've played our 30th or 40th game together. we've not looked at starts (so don't know the competitive meta) but he has about a 60% win rate.

Very fun, about 2-4 hours long and very multifaceted. There's not just 1 way to win, so you need to try not to lose multiple ways, and there's a lot of references to real History during the cold war