Terra Mystica rematch, and playing new games

Terra Mystica rematch, and playing new games

I was lucky enough to do some back-to-back gaming sessions this weekend. I was starting to get some gaming withdrawal as I hadn’t been able to attend my weekday game group because of work. And missing gaming totally makes me a cranky Meeple Lady. Last Friday night after work, a group of us met up …

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Splendor: Easy to learn, complex enough to satisfy

Splendor: Easy to learn, complex enough to satisfy

Out of my closest group of friends, I’m the biggest gamer. People enjoy coming over to my place (even though it’s the smallest location among our homes) to play games and learn new ones. I like having a variety of games for different group sizes and levels of gaming. There are some friends who like …

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Painting meeples on shoes

Painting meeples on shoes

This blog will primarily be about board games and my gaming experiences. And the meeple is central to board-gaming. A meeple is a small person-shaped piece used as a player’s token in many eurogames. The word is a mashup of “my people.” So while this post isn’t officially about playing board games, I still wanted to …

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Weekend gaming: Arkham Horror + expansions

Weekend gaming: Arkham Horror + expansions

This past weekend, we met for our monthly game of Arkham Horror. My friend has done an amazing job of tricking out his game. He replaced all the small cardboard tidbits such as hearts, brains and track tokens with color-coded glass beads. Each set of the glass beads also sit in awesome small decorative bowls …

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