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With restrictions slowly lifting I've been playing a lot of lighter games recently, meeting friends at the pub/garden. As such I've been mostly dicking around with my more portable games and to be honest I've had a blast. Kind of makes me resent some of the big box games I've got which will probably come off the shelves once or twice a year. Highlights have been; HIGH SOCIETY, once people click with the concept this is such a great auction game. It's Knizia so it's super simple, but there's enough to it that I've played a half dozen games in one night and not got bored SOLAR STORM picked this up months ago when it was super cheap and didn't really pay much attention to it. A lot of the big sites were kind of down on it as being essentially a derivative of Pandemic. And it totally is, BUT being able to take a Pandemic experience to a beer garden, in a box the size of a VHS is such a boon. Had great fun with this SPICY, I picked this up mainly for the artwork but it's actually one of my favourite bluffing games now. To the point I've kind of abandoned the notion of every bringing COCKROACH POKER out. I think COCKROACH is super fun, but it's SO group dependent that if you're playing with people who don't get it, it's just a dud. SPICY has the same bluffiness, but it's far easier to actually get into the meat of what you're doing, RAILROAD INK, one of my faves although I'm convinced it's really a solo game masquerading as a group game. So calming and relaxing though. STARTUPS, like all Oink games this is one that feels more complex than it actually is (the slightly oddball instructions don't help) but now we've ironed out the rules it's a genuine fave with my friends I've also been playing way too much QUACKS and THE KING IS DEAD with the housemates Edited by Raiftel at 16:32:07 10-05-2021 Edited by Raiftel at 17:08:37 10-05-2021 |
#12900205, By Raiftel Boardgames anyone?
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