A Study in Emerald by designer Martin Wallace is a boardgame based on short novel by Neil Gaiman. It’s a Sherlock Holmes and Cthulhu mix. Game was published via successful Kickstarter campaign but is currently available to buy from various game shops. It’s is expensive…we are talking over £50. Famous Mr. Timewalker purchased a copy of this gem few weeks ago and I was invited to play this last night 😉
Have spare $5 + $2 for shipping? You can spend it than on Kickstarter campaign for small game Province. It’s 2-player worker placement game. They call it: ”quick-to-learn eurogame that you can fit in your pocket!”. Minimum pledge level is $5 and you can do it here. Check out how to play video – it’s seems like pretty good filler game. Still 5 days to go.
Just back from winter holidays with few new games (mostly kids games) – one that we really like is Nogi Stonogi (Centipede Legs). This is fast and simple dice game where your target is to have longest centipede at the end of game 😉 Each turn you have 3 rolls of 4 dice with different color shoes (and one joker) and claim one of the tiles (4, 3 or 2 legs). When no more tiles available to claim game ends – simple as that. ‘Advanced rules’ are that you can claim another player legs that match your dice roll (only last tile of your centipede). What is really great about this? Well, it is one of those simple games that are funny to play with kids as well as with adults and for the price of 8 euro it is just must buy 😉 Really 😉
Blue Moon Legends will be my last attempt to draw my son’s attention to boardgames. He is 7 and he will play games from time to time but without any excitement/interest. This game will be just revised edition of Reiner Knizia’s Blue Moon and including all expansions, published by Fantasy Flight Games (you know: big manuals and great components). It’s 2 players only, with cards and few figures and it’s not cooperative – these are only reasons I will try it with my son. Release date: Q1 2014.
If you have few minutes and spare coins in your pocket you might try to play this free, print and play, little game – Coin Age. Value for money 😉
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Pretty much shocking that I have never played Agricola – currently number 3 on Boardgamegeek ranking. Last night was enough people to split to two groups, so I could quickly check what all the fuss about that game is. We have played 3 players and family version (without hand of cards etc. and simplified rules – as I was told). I was late last night and played only Agricola and one session of Coup. Another good night thanks to Mr. Timewalk (full report to follow on his blog)
Fantasy Flight Games as a publisher? Well, this will probably be overpriced with 30+ pages manual but at least we can be sure production will be top-notch. Must buy later this year.
I had high hopes for Flash Point Fire Rescue, wanted to play this with my kids as it is co-op game, fire-fighters co-op game. Well, it didn’t really work 😉 Older son (7) refuses to play any game if there is no fighting and hates each and every co-op game we have. Younger son (4) really likes to play it but we are limited to simplified family rules. Never played it with adults. There are few expansions available and base game cost around €30. If your kids are into cooperative games than this should work very well.
Hosted by Thur Night, plenty of junk food and coffee, every Thursday somewhere near Limerick 😉
Week #1 game of the night was Terra Mystica. It’s heavy euro game with lots of wooden cubes and very nice boards. There are many, many things you can do each turn (8+ actions to choose from) but rules are not that bad (thanks John)…it’s just a lot of things you can do each turn that can complicate things a little bit. There are few things similar to other games (Settlers of Catan, Eclipse etc.) and if you are gamer it should be pretty easy to get in quickly – just don’t show Terra Mystica to casual or non-gamers, they will have no clue what to do 😉 Strong 8 out of 10 after first play! Cost between €45-65.
Do you like Indiana Jones or The Mummy movies? If yes than The Adventurers games are for you! The Pyramid of Horus is quick and very funny game published by FFG which means great production, lots of figures and overcomplicated manuals…well, this time manual is OK. Game is easy: you go into pyramid to get treasures, number of actions you have depends on how many items you carry – heavier your backpack is, less actions (slower) you are. There are sarcophagus to open and mummies to avoid but worst thing are falling blocks that can seal you inside pyramid…you better be quick 😉 Whoever gets out of pyramid and have most treasures wins the game, that’s it. Great game!
