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Playing With Two

Lisa and I have been on a roll lately, running through at least one game a night for a few weeks now. We've been dusting off oldies but goodies that haven't seen the table in months (years?) and having a lot of fun rediscovering the gems that we've enjoyed in the past but just haven't taken the time to enjoy recently. Playing games together as a couple helps bring us closer rather than each of us doing our own things separately every night. Go grab a game and challenge your spouse or sign ...

Marquand Gathering of Friends - April 2012

Once a month, on a Saturday evening, Lisa and I gather a few friends for some light games and good food. However, for the most part, the board games simply provide a nice backdrop for some enjoyable face-time with real people, a thing that seems to have gone by the wayside in recent years.

For several years, we've been hosting a monthly game night and even with our modern busy ...

Game Nights with Rich Sommer

My wife and I are fans of the television program Mad Men and when I told her that Rich Sommer (Harry Crane on the show) was a board gamer and has more games in his collection than mine (currently about 225), she said, "I always knew there was something strange about him." :-)

The folks setting up ...

Playing With Two

My wife has been recuperating from some medical issues recently but she's been well enough and getting better every day to want to play games most every night. I thought I'd spend a few minutes annotating a few photos I've taken over the last week or so. Enjoy.

Lisa and I like Oregon but like many games, it's been awhile since it's seen the table. It's easy and quick to play. ...

Analog Game Night: March 2012 - Dominant Species

Image submitted to BGG by Ivan Prat - Used with permission

We failed to get Dominant Species to the table during Cabin Con 2012 but in this month's game night we brought out the great beast and finally gave it a go.

I was first taken by the artwork. It's ...

Initial Thoughts: Hawaii

I first played Hawaii at Great Lakes Games 2011. At the time, the only production version available was from Germany and I really wanted to take it for a lap around the table. I don't read German but, luckily, I found someone to teach it to me and with only that one play, I was hooked. I preordered the English version from Rio Grande Games and in the ...

Pimping A Few Acres of Snow

Last week I was contacted by a fellow BGG member from Alaska polling for people willing to trade a game for his freshly out of shrink copy of A Few Acres of Snow. The BGG software supports you creating a formal, expiring, offer to trade a game from your collection for a game in another user's collection. If accepted, the two parties pay for their own shipping and on the honor syst ...

Analog Game Night - February 2012

Analog Game Night for February 2012 came and went several weeks ago. I'm striving to be more prompt in my blogging and rather than simply promising myself to do better in the future, I'm flushing my backlog of posts by sitting down and writing a little bit. It's cathartic to chase the monkey off my back so to speak, and it's good practice to attempt to organize my thoughts into sem ...

Dusting off Tal der K�nige

A few weeks ago, I found myself sitting on the couch on a lazy Saturday afternoon contemplating many of life's mysteries. Finding no solutions and coming out of my daydream reality, my eyes focused on my game collection. Spilling from shelves and draping from the top of an armoire, the colorful mass holds protected, a dusty triangular box. A box with gaudy artwork that makes one wo ...

Cabin Con - 2012

One has to reach all the way back to 2007 to find my last cabin-based gaming adventure. I'd made the offer to my gaming group to organize another cabin-con and with six of us we set out this past weekend to spend a few days in the wood-burner cabins at Lake Hope State Park about an hour and a half south east ...