It's cold, dark and wet out. Come and play board games near a log fire. 8pm, Newbold Comyn Arms

It's cold, dark and wet out. Heating your house is expensive. Come to the Newbold and play games instead. They have a log fire.

http://www.newboldcomynarms.co.uk/

Last night's gaming

Nine gamers last night, and a big pile of shrink wrapped new games from The Works' recent sale.

Table 1 (4 players):

• Strozzi
• Fast Flowing Forest Fellers

Table 2 (5 players):

• Maori
• Seven Wonders (Leaders)

... of which only Seven Wonders is not a new game to us.

When playing Maori, we encountered a major error in the English translation of the rules. Thank heavens for smartphones. Here's the discussion on BoardGameGeek. If you play Maori, bear this in mind.

Come and play board games. Tonight at 8pm in the Newbold Comyn Arms Stables Bar

http://www.newboldcomynarms.co.uk/

Feel free to come along even if you don't own any games and haven't played a board game since childhood, we're a friendly lot and will introduce you to the finest modern games.

John E will be bringing some of his recent The Works bargain haul. That's all I know right now.

Last night's gaming - Wondering and Walking

Last night had an attendance of twelve.

Six people played The Walking Dead board game. Two early casualties in this game broke away to play Caylus Magna Carta.

Meanwhile two concurrent three-player games of Seven Wonders: Leaders were played.

Then the Seven Wonders players merged for a six player game.

There was time for three players to play Blue Moon City at the end, and a five player game of Nile.

Come and play board games. Tonight at 8pm in the Newbold Comyn Arms Stables Bar

http://www.newboldcomynarms.co.uk/

Bring some board games & money for the bar if that's your thing.

Feel free to come along even if you don't own any games and haven't played a board game since childhood, we're a friendly lot and will introduce you to the finest modern games.

We have three confirmed attendees so far -- and a strong likelihood of more. Games available to play will include Seven Wonders: Leaders, Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Zombie Dice, Bang, Condottiere, Ascension and Present Drop (two sets of tiles!) and more.

Bargain gaming from Cadbury

Games designer and general interesting bloke James Wallis blogs about the game on the back of this year's Cadbury selection packs.

The winner was Present Drop, a clever tile-placing game for 2-4 players with some nice Eurogame overtones, simple enough for kids to understand but with enough strategy to be interesting for real games-players too. It was designed by Matt Green and Kevan Davis. You know Kevan. He did Urban Dead and Chore Wars.
A year on, and the selection box with the game on it is in UK shops. At Tesco it costs £1.50, which gets you about £3-worth of chocolate, a spiffy game and a donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation as well. Which is, you have to admit, a heck of a deal.

At that price, I reckon we'll give it a go. It'll be appropriate at around the same time as Jacob Marley Esquire season comes around.

It's a bit early to be saying this, but since it's arisen -- towards Christmas our board gaming can be disrupted somewhat. Not only do people's other work, social and family commitments get in the way, but venues get clogged up with other events. From the start of December onwards, it's an especially good idea to look on the Board Silly Google Groups list to see who's planning to go.

Last night's gaming

Last night we had four in attendance.

One game of 6 Nimmt!

One game of our new 7 Wonders: Leaders.

One game of Thunderstone.

Come and play board games. Tonight at 8pm in the Newbold Comyn Arms Stables Bar

http://www.newboldcomynarms.co.uk/

Bring some board games & money for your beer & packet of crisps.

Feel free to come along even if you don't own any games and haven't played a board game since childhood, we're a friendly lot and will introduce you to the finest modern games.

Could whoever has the new copy of 7 Wonders: Leaders (John E?) please bring it along.  Don't forget the base game too please :)