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Mortley posted:Social activities more entertaining when among people whose company you enjoy: News at 11. I'm not saying you're wrong here, but I rather enjoyed the company of all of them. I simply didn't like playing this game with them as they weren't at all good at it. We enjoy plenty of other games though, so...weird.
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Jan 15, 2016 01:57
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I feel ya. That could happen for sure. I just feel the need to defend Codenames, especially when it's compared with fundamentally memorization-based games like Scrabble. I do think improvising abstract associations between common words takes more smarts than always remembering that qi is an acceptable spelling in English for some stupid reason. But the kind of thinking Codenames takes isn't easy even for intelligent people.
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Mortley posted:the kind of thinking Codenames takes isn't easy even for intelligent people. I think you're taking it way too seriously.
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Jedit posted:Internal Affairs, in the unlikely event that you can find it anywhere but Capstone's own website. Video description including full rules. I can't believe this is impossible to buy in the UK. Wasn't it at Essen?
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AMooseDoesStuff posted:I can't believe this is impossible to buy in the UK. Wasn't it at Essen? It was at Essen. It's possible it already sold through, the first print run was pretty small.
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Jan 15, 2016 06:21
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If anyone catches wind of a reprint or is looking to unload their copy, I'd be interested.
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Kiranamos posted:We had a couple of friends over and they went out and bought their own copy after trying ours. It's easy to see why it's a big hit - basically the same qualities of that party game that shall not be named (rip alan) except for 2 player strategy. Patchwork is great and a good staple 2 player game for my wife and me. Arguments have been had over that cross-shaped piece that costs only 3 time though.
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Is Biblios a good filler game? And are all the cards language neutral? My wife is not very fond of having to read English cards during plays.
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Jan 15, 2016 08:46
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Ended up buying King of New York and Libertalia. Tried to convince myself to pull the trigger on Kemet over Libertalia, but I just couldn't do it. I'll have less to explain and more play time this way. I'll get you one day, Kemet. Thanks for the input guys/gals. You make my life more entertaining. As an aside, I have played Between Two Cities a few times, and I feel like it blanks 7 Wonders. If not completely, then at least as an intro game. Everyone loves to build their own cities and theme them. There are fewer opportunities to get screwed by more experience players (especially via hate drafting), and there are less symbols to memorize and get confused by. It may not be as deep, but I feel much more confident bringing this out to teach than 7 Wonders.
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Jan 15, 2016 08:55
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Merauder posted:It was at Essen. It's possible it already sold through, the first print run was pretty small. They sold everything they took to Spiel, I know that. Re: Biblios - it didn't set me on fire, but it wasn't objectionable. It's completely language independent.
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Jan 15, 2016 09:12
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Played Keyflower today, tied for second with 55 points. The winner got 56. Definitely keen to get it out again.
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Jan 15, 2016 13:39
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Selecta84 posted:Is Biblios a good filler game? Biblios is one of the best filler games I've played. I got it a few months ago after this thread recommended it. My wife and I frequently take it to coffee shops and such. It's all colors and numbers, there should be no English involved at all once you are past the instructions.
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Jedit posted:Re: Biblios - it didn't set me on fire, but it wasn't objectionable. It's completely language independent. Medium Style posted:Biblios is one of the best filler games I've played. I got it a few months ago after this thread recommended it. My wife and I frequently take it to coffee shops and such. Cool, thanks. The English instruction should be no problem as I will be reading it.
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FulsomFrank posted:Speaking of gaming groups: I've got a bunch of friends that have been meeting up about once a week but the numbers keep climbing and we're up to about 6-8 regularly and the options of games at this player count is starting to get a bit stale. Between Resistance and its various iterations and versions, Codenames, Spyfall, ONU Werewolf and the highly-mediocre not-Resistance Secret Hitler, are there any other games that work well with larger group that people would recommend? When we get a big bunch together we'll often pull out Space Cadets: Dice Duel. So far, everyone has had a chaotic blast every time we've played and it really only works well with a lot of players (in my opinion). In fact, my only real complaint about it is that I don't get enough people together to bring it out all that often. Basically, you split up into two teams who each have a spaceship and try to blow each other up. Each person mans different stations (ala Star Trek or something like that) which are things like navigation, shields, weapons officer, tractor beams, sensors, engineering, and tractor beam. Each station has a mini-dice game that range from super easy (weapons officer loading torpedos) to mildly complicated (pilot driving the ship). What makes the game somewhat unique is that everything happens in real-time, so people are frantically rolling dice, acquiring targets, moving the ship, etc until somebody on a team yells out 'fire 1!' or 'fire 2' (depending on how many torpedoes they want to fire) at which point everyone puts their hands up and resolves the action. So far, I have yet to play a round of it without everyone instantly wanting to give it another go. Also, in general it's a pretty fast paced game (I suppose it could drag on if both teams were outright terrible, but that hasn't happened to us yet). For those that care, one possible issue with the game is it would be very easy for people to cheat with their dice since everyone is engaged in their own mini game and would likely not notice. Also, some people might feel pressured by the 'hurry up let's go' nature of the game (sort of like Space Alert) and might not appreciate their teammates screaming at them to load the drat torpedoes already. The varying difficulties of the stations works for my group as a nice way to get people with different board game skill/experience levels involved, but some of the stations are simple enough that they could potentially become boring for an experienced gamer.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:When we get a big bunch together we'll often pull out Space Cadets: Dice Duel. So far, everyone has had a chaotic blast every time we've played and it really only works well with a lot of players (in my opinion). In fact, my only real complaint about it is that I don't get enough people together to bring it out all that often. Basically, you split up into two teams who each have a spaceship and try to blow each other up. Each person mans different stations (ala Star Trek or something like that) which are things like navigation, shields, weapons officer, tractor beams, sensors, engineering, and tractor beam. Each station has a mini-dice game that range from super easy (weapons officer loading torpedos) to mildly complicated (pilot driving the ship). What makes the game somewhat unique is that everything happens in real-time, so people are frantically rolling dice, acquiring targets, moving the ship, etc until somebody on a team yells out 'fire 1!' or 'fire 2' (depending on how many torpedoes they want to fire) at which point everyone puts their hands up and resolves the action. Dice Duel is sounding like it might really be up everyone's alley and it isn't that expensive on 401 games either. Only thing I worry about are a couple of sensitive souls that get emotional when being yelled at or accused of being a spy, but we can work around that I think. Has anyone tried the expansion "die fighter" and willing to provide a review/endorsement?
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Anyone had a chance to play Pax Pamir or Neanderthal yet? I haven't played any Sierra Madre games yet but they sound interesting from a thematic/historical aspect.
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FulsomFrank posted:Dice Duel is sounding like it might really be up everyone's alley and it isn't that expensive on 401 games either. Only thing I worry about are a couple of sensitive souls that get emotional when being yelled at or accused of being a spy, but we can work around that I think. Has anyone tried the expansion "die fighter" and willing to provide a review/endorsement? Where in Canada do you live? I've got a copy of Dice Duel that I want to sell (my GF hates real-time games). I'm in Detroit, but I've got a friend who's dating a girl in Windsor so I'm sure he could send it out the next time he's over there.
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quote:Dice Duel is sounding like it might really be up everyone's alley and it isn't that expensive on 401 games either. Only thing I worry about are a couple of sensitive souls that get emotional when being yelled at or accused of being a spy, but we can work around that I think. Has anyone tried the expansion "die fighter" and willing to provide a review/endorsement? The game really wouldn't be a good fit for someone who doesn't want to be rushed/blamed. I also don't think it's necessarily a great fit for a static group. We played it a few times then sold it; it felt like we had had the experience, and it was fun, but we didn't need to do it again. If you had different people coming in and out, I think that would help, maybe? Overall, I think of it as a game sort of like XCOM or Ladies and Gentlemen: fun experiences, but with very limited replay.
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Jan 15, 2016 17:08
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Took a trip out to CoolStuff yesterday, picked up Codenames, Arctic Scavengers + HQ + Recon, a few expansions for Dominion and Tragedy Looper: Midnight Circle. I'd say I did pretty good.
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Jan 15, 2016 18:14
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Hahaha http://m.toledoblade.com/TV-Radio/2016/01/14/7-WTOL-employees-fired-for-playing-Cards-Against-Humanity.html
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Jan 15, 2016 18:28
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Oh god I can't wait to hear all about censorship again.
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Jan 15, 2016 18:31
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Selecta84 posted:Hahaha Oh man, that rules.
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Scyther posted:Took a trip out to CoolStuff yesterday, picked up Codenames, Arctic Scavengers + HQ + Recon, a few expansions for Dominion and Tragedy Looper: Midnight Circle. I'd say I did pretty good. what the gently caress man, why didn't you hit me up???
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Jan 15, 2016 18:34
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Selecta84 posted:Hahaha Pretty good advertisement, a game so extreme it'll get u fired!!!
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Selecta84 posted:Hahaha I like that the article says the cards can be "inappropriate" rather than "racist, sexist, and more."
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EBag posted:Anyone had a chance to play Pax Pamir or Neanderthal yet? I haven't played any Sierra Madre games yet but they sound interesting from a thematic/historical aspect. Gonna get my Pax Pamir played maybe this weekend. I'll let you know what I think.
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Jan 15, 2016 18:42
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Fire everyone who plays Cards Against Humanity.
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Broken Loose posted:what the gently caress man, why didn't you hit me up??? Well it was a surprise trip, my wife told me we were going to Universal Studios and I was like "Ugh fine."
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I played Arctic Scavengers last night and while the rest of my group was saying that it was a lot better than Dominion, I found that it fell incredibly flat for me.
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Mortley posted:I feel ya. That could happen for sure. I just feel the need to defend Codenames, especially when it's compared with fundamentally memorization-based games like Scrabble. I do think improvising abstract associations between common words takes more smarts than always remembering that qi is an acceptable spelling in English for some stupid reason. But the kind of thinking Codenames takes isn't easy even for intelligent people. I kind of concur, though I wouldn't put it that way - Codenames is very, VERY easy to overthink, and convince yourself that the weird niche interpretation you've argued yourself into is better than the obvious one which is just too obvious. If you don't spot the niche interpretation at all, it's easier.
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T-Bone posted:Gonna get my Pax Pamir played maybe this weekend. I'll let you know what I think. I think I may just pick it up anyways, it sounds really interesting and even if I only get a chance to play it a few times, their games seem to retain/gain value really well.
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EBag posted:Anyone had a chance to play Pax Pamir or Neanderthal yet? I haven't played any Sierra Madre games yet but they sound interesting from a thematic/historical aspect. Pax Pamir is great and everyone should try it out. It's also very different at different counts, so you should play it at least once at 3p and also at least once at 5p.
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Some Numbers posted:I played Arctic Scavengers last night and while the rest of my group was saying that it was a lot better than Dominion, I found that it fell incredibly flat for me. Did you play just the base game or with some of the expansions? The base game is incredibly boring. You need at least leaders + medics + some more added in before it starts getting good.
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Some Numbers posted:I played Arctic Scavengers last night and while the rest of my group was saying that it was a lot better than Dominion, I found that it fell incredibly flat for me. arctic scavengers is better than dominion if you're a dumb stupid baby incapable of understanding the player interaction in dominion who always cries about "multiplayer solitaire" it's one of the least bad non-dominion deckbuilders fwiw though, I don't hate the game or anything.
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I'm gonna cheat and post something from BGG regading FCM. It's been a super busy week. It will be super busy for the rest of the month, so hopefully next month I'll have something for you guys that I wrote.quote:I am by no means an expert and wouldn't call myself an experienced player. I have learned the game (with a dummy game against myself), taught it twice and played it 3 times total at counts of 3 and 5 players. I also read anything on this forum that isn't about pimping out your game (food miniatures) or shipping timeframes.
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Also I'm going to play the Kemetexpansion tomorrow. Any hints? (or at least I hope to..my initial feelers produced nothing and Kemet sucks with two).
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deadwing posted:arctic scavengers is better than dominion if you're a dumb stupid baby incapable of understanding the player interaction in dominion who always cries about "multiplayer solitaire" I am a dumb stupid baby, please help me understand the player interaction in Dominion. I've only played two games, I liked it but wasn't quite hooked. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm missing something. I have not played Arctic Scavengers.
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EBag posted:I think I may just pick it up anyways, it sounds really interesting and even if I only get a chance to play it a few times, their games seem to retain/gain value really well. If you already have Pax Porf or don't want to buy it, they're selling the gameboard at http://sierra-madre-games.eu/index_SMG35a.html It looks like it will be a big help. 
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