It was the first event after the start of school, not that that means too much to us working adults. But any teachers, parents and students hopefully enjoyed the escape from the stress of the new school year by playing some board games like:
Scythe
Shards of Infinity: Saga Collection
Brass Lancashire
Galactic Cruise
Farshore
Quest for El Dorado
Import / Export
Trekking the World
Canvas Reflections
Kingdomino Origins
Ship Shape
Carcassonne
Legendary Encounters; Predator and Alien versions
Mistborn
Project L
Ticket to ride; Berlin
Root
Wingspan
Beyond the Sun
The Crew
It was a little weird to not have a game of Terraforming Mars played, however the campaign finished last event and you can read the summary in the previous blog. That did make way for other table hogging games, such as Scythe, Beyond the Sun and Farshore, and freed up those players to enjoy greater variety and quantity of games.
We had a few new Kickstarters played tonight, Galactic Cruise has you competing to build and launch spaceships that will take your customers to the stars, and whoever does it best will be rewarded with the coveted position of company CEO. Or a little closer to earth, Trekking the World is an easy game about visiting the best places the world has and seeing who can be the best tourist.
I did get to play my favourite game, Root, in which we managed our first 6-player game. But another interesting game I enjoyed was Ship shape, A game in which you bid on tiles with which to fill your cargo hold and try to earn the most money. It has an interesting bid mechanic in which everyone secretly picks a card numbered 1-10 and whoever has the highest number gets the first tile in the line, lowest gets the last. It’s interesting because it’s hard to get your pick, as rarely is the scale 10-1, it could be as close as 2-4 and if anyone ties, those players are bumped to the end and go again, further throwing off the ordering.