Weekend Gaming: Exploring New Worlds

I taught Archipelago to Joe, Kevin, Louis, and Phil Saturday evening. There was a fair bit of confusion, and no one really had a defined strategy. Joe was being disruptive with the barbarian card, so that didn’t help anything. The surplus worker market was also...

Weekend Gaming: Welcome to 2014

Following my company party where I won a travel case of Chess, Checkers, and Backgammon, Gina and I sat down to learn Caverna.  It was pretty straight forward and we picked it up quickly.  We just played the introductory game to keep the number of options down.  Gina...
2013 in Review

2013 in Review

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,900 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people. That little tidbit is courtesy of the WordPress automated statistics machine.  If...

Happy New Year!

New Years Eve was going to be a quiet one, but after a last minute invite to go with Gina and the kids over to Joe’s, the games were afoot.  Phil join us as well and we played a quick game of Hawaii.  I managed to grab the spear god, and spear huts early.  Joe...

Weekend Gaming: Christmas with Family

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday! I didn’t get any gaming in over Christmas, other than  a couple games of Archipelago with Gina on Christmas day.  It’s certainly an interesting game with a lot of potential, though some of the tension seems to...