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#boardgames

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msaari

Yesterday we started with two plays of Nile DeLuxor. This is a clever little card game that I played a lot in 2011–12. It's fun to return to these "last played in 2017" games. Nile was still a good game.

Before splitting up our final group of six, we played a quick round of Schrödinger's Cats. This is a Liar's Dice / Bluff / Perudo variant, where you bet on how many of the cat boxes (cards in players' hands) have alive cats, dead cats or are empty. Players can reveal cards from their hands to exchange cards, which is a nice twist.

After the split, we first wanted to play Tapestry. However, a friend from my previous Tapestry game was at Taverna with their group, and they were playing Tapestry. Our plan B was Dune: Imperium – Uprising. That's always a pleasure. My game, this time, was pretty weak. The winner was clear, and it wasn't me, but I did win the second place tiebreaker by one solari. For some reason, I had lots of trouble gaining troops throughout the game.

Finally, we played Botanicus, a Hans im Glück game from last year, out now from Lautapelit.fi. In this gardening game, players try to grow flowers in their gardens to please the visitors. Planted flowers can be improved to get better flowers, and you also want to complete columns on your board.

The action selection mechanism combines choosing actions and setting turn order in a clever way, and choosing actions is combined with processing on tracks to make those actions have different values for different players.

It all seems a bit overwhelming at first, but when it starts to make sense, it runs smooth and works well.

A personal garden board from Botanicus. Some flowers have been planted and one has been improved to level 4, the maximum. Two of the initial visitor goals have been satisfied and replaced with more difficult ones. All four animal tokens are still on the board.
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Terri K O 🍁

Books & board games for May 25, 2025 curiousity.ca/2025/books-board Trying something new: I haven’t been reviewing books because it takes a long time to write reviews on my phone, and I’d been working on reducing my phone screen time. But I’ve been using my computer more to write fanfic so I’m going to see if weekly book posts are more likely to happen now … Continue reading → … #BoardGames #books #review

Books returned May 25, 2025. Titles and reviews in post.
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Dr. Terri

Books & board games for May 25, 2025

Trying something new: I haven’t been reviewing books because it takes a long time to write reviews on my phone, and I’d been working on reducing my phone screen time. But I’ve been using my computer more to write fanfic so I’m going to see if weekly book posts are more likely to happen now than they were last time I tried.

My books

(first one I own, other two from the library)

Kitemaster by Jim Hines. I accidentally pre-ordered this twice, which probably gives you some idea of how I felt about it. A young woman mourning her husband goes to release his spirit kite only to discover she has developed a rare magical gift, and she soon attracts the attention of some very powerful people… I loved the worldbuilding around kite magic (safety lines! The spirit kites!) and the sky serpents and the poetic legends about dragons and the evil queen and the sky pirates and the race of monkey-like people. Maybe it feels particularly good to me right now because I’ve been playing a game which includes a lot of gliding around in the sky, but I wanted to live in this world. There’s also a lot about grief and cultural traditions around mourning in there, in a way that I had to stop and let it sink in sometimes. In a good way.

Halfway There – A graphic novel about being half Japanese and half American, but mostly it was about finding yourself and depression. Her experience of people’s weird reactions to her being “hafu” resonated but the self-loathing not so much.

The Roommate by Rosie Danan – I’ve read a few from her and they’re all different. I find it kind of hilarious that I felt like this one was less believable than the werewolf one but honestly I love a kind of absurd premise as long as the characters are fun. And they are! Just… I’d recommend Fan Service (the werewolf book) over this one. It’s the most recent one and I think the characters are even better despite the premise being more absurd.

Kid books:

Catnapped is a repeat, so kiddo liked it enough to get it out again. Or he liked that it has a cat in it and he’s got this thing where he wants his allergic dad to fake sneeze for fake cats so my kid is extra motivated to get cat books out of the library.

Bob and Joss get lost – ok but no repeat requests on this one

Amazing Grace – never read it, kid wasn’t interested. (Recall: we get mystery bags from the library and not all of them are winners for him)

Storm Whale in Winter – spawned some good conversations about snow safety but no repeat requests

Little Blue Truck Makes a Friend – kid had fun with the animal noises but was mad I made him read some of this so it was slower going than it could have been.

Charlie Chooses – very cute, lots of dogs, we read this a few times.

Toby – another repeat. cute dog, kind of melancholy story so i was surprised he got it out again.

Board Game

Despite the giant box this is mostly a card/dice game where you build a little city and money based on dice roles hitting your numbers. None of the cards are secret held in your hand, so that was great for my kid’s reading level (he can read but it’s a lot of work and he gets tired of doing it), and the rounds are pretty fast and the rules not too complicated. We may buy a copy of this one.

Books returned May 25, 2025. Titles and reviews in post.
A copy of the game Machi Koro.
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sanpemed

J'ai acheté Génial y'a un peu plus d'une semaine.
Ca faisait des années que je n'y avais pas joué, mais c'est toujours aussi bon tudieu !
Le mode solo est pas ouf mais à 2-3-4 on d'en lasse pas (même si sur cette photo je perds 😭)

Photo d'une fin de partie du jeu de société "Génial" ! Le plateau a les bords noirs avec des cases grises et blanches. Dessus sont posées des tuiles noires avec des formes de couleur rouges, violettes, jaunes, vertes et bleues. En dessous, mon plateau individuel avec un quadrillage blanc. Au fond noir, quadrillés, avec des cubes de couleurs rouges, violettes, jaunes, vertes et bleues.
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Fearteiler

Morgen geht's los - das #brettspielwochenende startet für mich gegen 1. Da bleibt knapp 12 Stunden davor noch ein Rückblick auf den letzten Freitag.
Wir starteten zu fünft mit #flip7. Kein klassisches #boardgames, aber egal. Ärgern, lachen und leiden. Es gefällt. Ist es ein #spieldesjahres : nein. Da ist #bombbusters bedeutend besser. Familien muss schon was abverlangt und zugemutet werden. Gleiches galt mit und für #skyteam. #Brettspiele @brettspiele @board 1/4

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