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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 ...

FireFox 9.0.1 Update :-(

It's come to my attention that the latest FireFox release (9.0.1) has a bug that has broken the ability for some keyboard events to get propagated to javascript applications running in the browser. Ingenious relies on these events to allow you to rotate and place the tiles while playing.

Unfortunately, there is no work around until they release a patch for the problem. In the meantime, I'll be trying to find out more information on the problem and keep you up to date.

I apologize fo ...

Dinner and Games

To pack in even more gaming into our holiday time, Lisa and I were lucky enough to get invited over to a neighbor's house for dinner (an awesome lamb stew) and some light gaming. They'd recently purchased 7 Wonders and GUBS so we were primed and ready to help them get them to the table. But first things first�lamb stew and some Malbec!

After ...

Impromptu Game Day - December 28, 2011

I held a mini game night at my house yesterday and although it was cut shorter than I'd hoped we did manage to get in a game of San Marco, K2, and Kingdom Builder.

After playing San Mar ...

Louis XIV, Luna and My Christmas Games 2011

Lisa and I played our first game of Luna last night. It was Lisa's first time playing and my first full game having only played a few rounds at Origins this past summer. Lisa's not one to go through the rules of a new game if I don't know them pretty well, but she's been a real trooper these last few days offering to slog ...

Christmas Day 2011

My Christmas vacation is just starting but so far, I've managed to get in games of The Castles of Burgundy, Aqu�dukt, No Thanks!, and ...

Saturday Night Gathering of Friends - December 2011

Lisa and I host a board game night for friends and interested spouses. We've been gathering on the third Saturday of every month since February, 2009 and I'll be the first to admit, I've been careless about blogging about it. We've had as many as 10 or 11 and as few as four but we always have fun.

This pa ...

CABS: After Turkey Day - 2011

Yesterday, Lisa and I made our annual pilgrimage to the CABS After Turkey Day Game Fest (XIV). Every year, CABS allows the public to use their space for playing board games and opens the doors to their massive game library to anybody that wants to play. Come one, come all whether it be families, kids, adults, peop ...

Alhambra - Review

Alhambra is a 2003 title designed by Dirk Henn. I've owned it for years and felt it was a so-so game but after realizing I'd played it wrong, I wanted to get it back to the table. Unfortunately, the box kept getting pushed to the back of the game shelf to gather dust on its plodding journey to the trade list.

Howeve ...

Great Lakes Games - Sunday - 2011

Great Lakes Games 2011 has come to a close and I'm back home with the post-board game convention blues. I played 22 games over the 3 day period, 15 of them were new to me. My brain is fried but I'm already looking forward to next year.

I felt like I played relatively competitively getting second many times and first a few times but as the hours of each day waned my brain became more and more mushy. Even simple games that I would usually play respectably were tough. However, I was stil ...