Playing Bottle Imp with Alex and Ivan at ZUS Coffee. They were both highly intrigued and took learning the strategy seriously. This is a game with much depth. There are serious skills involved. This is an unusual and clever trick-taking game.
I showed Pinocchio to Yip, Captain Fuaad and Kelvin. Right from the start Captain teased Yip that he was going to get four donkeys (and lose the game). This prediction turned out to be accurate. I rarely see someone lose a game of Pinocchio so happily. Yip wanted to buy a copy of the game immediately afterwards.
This was a game of Monopoly Deal played at FnD Mindspot with Eric Lang and several other Malaysian game designers and gamers. Eric greatly admires the game and uses it as an example of good game design. I must say it is not quite my thing, but indeed this is an accessible game that works well for a wide audience.
Sean Brown brought a free copy of Faiyum plus expansion all the way back from the US for me. He remembered that Julian and I are interested in the game, and when he had access to some free copies, he offered to get them for us. Thank you so much! I have played Faiyum before and I liked it. It has been on my potential buy list for some time and I was almost going to pull the trigger, just about the time Sean said he had some free copies.
This is
Carson City played on
BoardGameArena.com. I have played this many years ago, and I remember it fondly. I just don’t quite remember the rules anymore. This is one of the earlier worker placement games, and one unique element is you can fight others for a placement spot.
You will build a city, buying plots of land and constructing buildings. Buildings help you make money and they have other effects too.
This is Takenoko. You expand the imperial garden, irrigate it, grow bamboo, and feed bamboo to the panda. All these modify the play area. You score points by completing objective cards, and objective cards require specific situations in the play area.
This was our play area by game end.
The game ends when a player completes seven objectives. He scores an additional 2 points. In our game two of us managed seven objectives.
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