Going clubbing? Poetry for Neanderthals provided the big distraction tonight. Penny wielded her inflatable power with reckless abandon. Hands up all those who escaped being bonked on the head. No? Me neither.
The roadworks were behaving themselves very well on my drive in, so I arrived surprisingly early and began to set up the tables, with Tim turning up in time to make sure I’d done it properly. This was disappointing to Talita and her gang of volunteers only to find nothing to do except play some board games.
With over twenty people in attendance, we managed to play a lot of games:
Alien Artefacts
Bach Chall
Canosa
Carcassonne
Dune Imperium
Dungeon Mayhem: Monster Madness
Food Chain Magnate
Funfair
High Society
Marvel Legendary
Nidavellir
Pachakuna
Poetry for Neanderthals
Say Anything
Stone Age
The Wolves
Ticket to Ride
Underwater Cities
Weather Machine
The table hog winner this week went to the new Lacerda game, Weather Machine, which had several boards, many moving parts and even cute robots.
After dutifully manning the welcome table, I managed to get in a Lord of the Rings reference during dinner, when I announced it was eleventy one days until the Meeple Escape! Book your tickets by clicking here. Then I got down to the serious gaming by (finally!) playing Underwater Cities, which I’ve been interested to play since its release, a few years ago. A nice game of synergies and city building, with some excellent guidance from the game cards as to which aspects players should focus on.
Say Anything produced its usual, raucous background which helped to carry the neolithic theme with two games of Stone Age and Nidavellir (which has something to do with rocks).
The end of the evening held a memorable two player game of Food Chain Magnate, with all the expansions. All of them. Carl and Cat managed to break the game between them very quickly.
Our next event is February 18th, click here for details, and I shall be bringing along my game Bronze! to play test!
(Event date: 04/02/2023)
New Hotness - Weather Machine
