This is awesome. Seems like the game might be a little too complex and time consuming for me but I love that you're reviewing board games! I have been gaming with my family since I was a child. Card games, board games, dice games you name it. It's so cool to see this kind of stuff on Steemit. Reading through it really brings back some good memories I've had with my family playing all sorts of games. They're so much fun when you've got everyone in mood to play! I literally have a closet at my parents house that is FILLED TO THE BRIM with board games.
Thanks for sharing! I'm going to check out some of your other reviews. I never knew there were so many to choose from! Cheers!
Thanks very much. I also gamed with my family from a young age. Card and Dice games, with classic board games as well. I enjoyed discovering all the new modern games and introducing them back to my family that had found board games to be stale and just for kids. When my dad passed away, he and mum had played around 500 games of ticket to ride, which is probably the best used gift I ever gave them. When mum died, I inherited a large selection of the closet of games, including the ticket to ride collection. I had around 25 games before selling most of them so I could move interstate, so it's nice to slowly be rebuilding the collection (even if it isn't how I wanted to). Almost all the games I cover are not mine, but ones that other players bring along to the group I attend
So you're in a group that gets together and does games? That sounds like so much fun to me. I haven't heard of most of the games you've reviewed which intrigues me so much as to what I've been missing out on hahaha I'm very interested now in Ticket to Ride. A few of the MANY games I played with my family are Hearts and Spades, Rummikub, Chess, Cad (also known as 31), Canasta, Monopoly, Risk, Stratego, Yahtzee, Nertz, I could go on and on hahaha I think it's a great thing for families and friends to do together.
I'll be following you! Can't wait to see what else you're reviewing. Cheers!
I know that list quite well. Very much like my growing up years games cupboard. These days it's very much the newer modern games, with past winners or nominees for the spiel de jahres (game of the year, Germany) featuring heavily, as well os many other euro-style games, where the luck from dice is either mitigated or absent (though luck can certainly come in from a variety of other locations)
Yeah, when I moved to Sydney I joined a meetup group for gaming, and have been going now for almost 2 full years. There's actually quite a few of them on meetup and I think I was lucky to pick the one that I did as there's always a good range of games and plenty of players (so much so we have to book in to attend or risk missing out)
Wow! I just love that SO many people are into games the way I was when I was growing up. Board game and card games. Honestly it was more of my Mom who loved to play games. I learned to know that love very well but it was her influence that got me there. And she's still that way to this day!
I've never used meetup before. I believe I've heard of it though. Are you basically just able to search people out with the same interests? It's impressive that you have so many people essentially lining up to play board games and card games.
I've never been to Sydney before but I'd love to visit. It's on my list of places I want to go. And I'm so close right now! I'm currently in New Zealand! But I head back home to the states tomorrow.
I've got your review of "Race for the Galaxy" bookmarked as I want to give it a read. The name caught my eye because I'm a bit of a nerd LOL I've also been known to play other fantasy games like Magic the Gathering (although MtG is more of a card collectors kind of game).
It's great having 40-50 people every week playing games in the one room. sometimes more.
I played MtG for many years, and taught a few people that have gone on to play at the national championships, though I was never into the competitive play. I also found the desire to collect far too tempting for me, and got out before it cost me too much. Still cost a few thousand over the years (at best guess anyway).
It was probably the worst for me when I was in college. I'd go on Ebay and buy an entire box of cards. There are websites where you can buy individual cards and I'd do that hahaha I played a lot with my friends, both in childhood and in college, but also never played competitively.
40-50 people, that's just crazy. Sounds like a lot of fun though!
Well I look forward to your next game review and will let you know if I get a chance to play any the games that pop up on your feed. Cheers!