Category: Weekend gaming

Recap of International Tabletop Day and other gaming

Recap of International Tabletop Day and other gaming

First off, I wanted to give a big thank you to friends and the folks of the Internet for voting for me in the Passport Game Studios International Table Top Photo Contest. I won a runner-up prize! Pretty sweet!! You guys are totally the best!

This past week has been a blur with work and, of course, lots of board gaming. Last Saturday was International Tabletop Day, which my friends and I took full advantage of. Our hosts at one of my gaming groups also had a raffle of board-game prizes and a cornhole tournament in which you could win $25 to Game Depot, our friendly local game store in Tempe.

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In the mood for Sushi Go!

In the mood for Sushi Go!

I recently had two back-to-back weekend events with my core group of friends. During the first weekend, I introduced them to Sushi Go! and Survive: Escape from Atlantis! (I just now noticed that these two game titles both have exclamation points in their names). Both games were a big hit with my friends, so much so that two different people purchased Sushi Go! later in the week, and one of them also purchased Survive and its expansions.

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Crazy week of gaming, BGG Con tickets and other stuff

Crazy week of gaming, BGG Con tickets and other stuff

In the spirit of Cthulhu, I felt like I had been devoured last week. I had the most insane week, and I’m thankful for being surrounded by people who care about me and who, at the drop of a hat, help me out … like say when you have plumbing issues, need a new kitchen faucet, and your laundry room and kitchen flood with water. Let’s just say I’m so very happy that it’s a new week!

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Strategicon 2016: Finally playing Virgin Queen

Strategicon 2016: Finally playing Virgin Queen

I can’t believe it’s been a week since Strategicon! I’m seriously having convention withdrawal. My Phoenix friend and I decided to go to OrcCon for two very different reasons. I wanted to play Virgin Queen, which was slated for 11 hours of game play, and he wanted to play Mega Civilization, which was slated for 14 hours of play. And guess what? Both of us succeeded in doing so! Huzzah!

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Game night at the Game Boy Geek’s house

Game night at the Game Boy Geek’s house

If you follow me on Instagram, you saw that last Friday I got to meet the Game Boy Geek himself, play games are his house and bask in the glory of his awesome board-game room. How cool is that?! I seriously still get starstruck when I meet folks from the Internet who are very active in the board-gaming world. And it all came to be because of a happy coincidence!

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Pandemic Legacy: An old game, a new experience

Pandemic Legacy: An old game, a new experience

At a game day last week, my friend confessed to me, “I don’t have the energy to learn a new game,” and I agreed. There are those days where you just want to slip into something oh-so-familiar with a group of other folks who also know how to play that particular game. There is neither a 30-minute (or longer) explanation during game setup nor that drag where the one newbie is asking lots of questions on game play and strategy while everybody else is just eager to keep the game going.

Don’t get me wrong … I love introducing new games to people, and questions are always encouraged, but there is something deeply satisfying about opening up a box and jumping right in.

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This week’s gaming: Mombasa, Arkham Horror and others

This week’s gaming: Mombasa, Arkham Horror and others

The new year has been busier than expected, and it’s been a little difficult gathering up the troops for a game night. But it finally happened this past week.

This past Thursday, I got Mombasa onto the table again with my core group of gamers, and it was awesome. I came thiiiiiss close to first place — only 2 points away! But it was definitely a lot better than the previous time I played, when I came in last. But most importantly, all the guys in my core group of gamers have played this game and love it as much as I do, which means it will definitely make it to the table more often than not. Woohoo! I ended up purchasing some Mayday card sleeves for the game in order to protect each player’s action cards.

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T.I.M.E Stories, Gold West, and Survive: Escape from Atlantis

T.I.M.E Stories, Gold West, and Survive: Escape from Atlantis

Last weekend I went to Game Day, and a curious thing happened — all the games that I played were new to me! This hardly happens as whenever we learn a new game, somebody usually suggests an  old familiar game soon after, so that our brains don’t hurt too much. Or I usually suggest BSG because I do love playing BSG.

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Friendship Con: Our very own gaming convention

Friendship Con: Our very own gaming convention

About six months ago, I was telling my board-game friends that I was going to BGG Con again, after having an awesome time last year. My one friend had this crazy idea to have our own convention, without the need for traveling and in the comforts of our homes, since they all couldn’t get away for an entire week to Dallas for BGG Con. I’m like, sure, let’s do this!

We decided to keep it as a convention of 5 friends, naming it Friendship Con! We took this event very seriously. During the planning stages, we voted on a list of games we all wanted to play, a schedule for said games, divided up who was in charge of learning the rules for a particular game, locations for gaming each day (we spread it out among 3 people, so that no one home would become overrun by us), and, of course, menu options. The host home would provide an easy breakfast, and then sandwiches for lunch, and then a quick healthy dinner. One of the cons that my friend had mentioned about going to BGG Con or similar events was that having limited access to cheap, healthy food because you either paid a premium at hotel restaurants or had to leave the gaming area to find other eateries, which resulted in less gaming time.

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Popping into Strategicon in Los Angeles

Popping into Strategicon in Los Angeles

I was packing for my Labor Day weekend trip to LA to visit my parents last Thursday night when I noticed on Twitter that people were getting ready for Strategicon. Whaaa …?? I have a gaming friend who had gone to Strategicon in February, so I naturally assumed that the convention had gone and past. I quickly looked up the convention online and, lo and behold, Strategicon happens three times a year! They all happen during long weekends — Presidents Day weekend, Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend — at the LAX Hilton. Well, well, I totally couldn’t pass up on that!

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