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... or Saturday.. almost close enough.
I got a few games off the shelf of shame this past week.
1 - Pan Am - There is just something about route building economy games that I just love. Pan Am fits perfectly in that category. Bid and purchase airports, access to different cities, and planes so that you may offer flights between different cities, which will increase your income. Pan Am also spreads and purchases existing lines. Spend the money you've collected for shares in Pan Am. The player with the most shares is the winner.
2 - Manhattan - Build skyscrapers to get the majority in that district and the most levels in each building to get points. But you must build in the section indicated by the card you play. Fun game!
3 - The Climbers - This was a birthday gift from my brother, and I finally got it to the table. Place a block and climb up with your worker, but it must land on a neutral or its own colour. You can also not climb more than one level at a time unless you have a ladder available. Best played on a lazy susan. Neat game!
4 - Foodies - Quick fun game about building a food court. Select food tiles of different nationalities and follow its special instruction. Some will grant you victory points. Player with most points win.
5 - Le Havre - I love its two player variant, The Insland Port, and have been wanting to play this one. I recently purchased it and now got it to the table. It's a combo-tastic game with the different buildings providing and converting goods. Be warned as you play this game will become a table hog.
The Shelf of Shame is now sitting with 160 unplayed games. That's 22.67% of my total collection.
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I got a few games down from the shelf of shame this past week.
1 - Dwellings of Elverdale: This one was great. Worker placement and area control. The components are amazing, and the storage system in the box also.
2 - Maple Valley: This was a great one. A sequel to Creature Comfort with similar adorable artwork and end goals. But the game play is very different. Acquiring friend card and using them to travel on different trails to gather different resources. Another game with incredible components and storage system (take note, I got the kickstarter copy)
3 - Gulo Gulo: I was donated kid friendly games for my hosted Acme Legion Game Day. In Gulo Gulo, you try to make your way down the path towards the nest, eating the eggs in said nest as you go. But careful, you could activate the egg alarm and be sent backward. Super adorable, and the egg components make this perfect for Easter.
4 - Magician's Kitchen: Another kid friendly donation. Use your wand to move your character carrying an ingredient across the board to its matching cauldron. When you get in the right spot, a magnet magically flips your character, dropping off the ingredient. But be careful. There are random tripping spots on the board that could make you drop your ingredients. Each time you play, a shake of the box moves those tripping spots.
How about you? Got anything off the shelf of shame?
I was checking out D6 Tabletop Cafe today. It's such a beautiful space and amazing game selection. Thanks for the tour, Toast 😉
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I've been so busy enjoying Gobfest that I forgot to post this yesterday and apparently the week before.
These past two weeks, I have played..
Months Python Fluxx - just like all fluxx games, draw a card, play a card until the rule changes, and try to meet the current goal.
Star-Trek Chrono-Trek - a time travel game where you try to return to your own reality. Neat.
Modern Art - Loved this one. Turns out I have just as little control in this auctions as I do in auctions at game cons.
Mlem - A space cat push your luck game. Fun Reiner Knizia game.
Unsolved Cold Case: Sandra Ivey - first of all, I was able to prove that her death was, in fact, not accidental and always discovered who was the murderer!!
How about you? Got anything new to the table?
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This past week, two games made it off the shelf of shame... although I never really counted them as been on. If you have played a game before but not your own copy; is it on the shelf of shame??
1 - After Us: This deck building game has such a unique mechanism. You try and place the card in order to complete the best combination of completed black rectangles so that you can activate them and collect resources and trade for other resources or victory points. Love this one.
Everdell Farshore: In this beautifully thematic worker placement game, you collect resources to acquire cards that can give you abilities or a new worker placement spot or end of game scoring. It's beautiful and satisfying to play. The 3d lighthouse component, however, is completely useless, but I suppose it has a table presence.
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Happy Felduary, which my friend Michelle introduced me to. To celebrate, I dusted off a few Stefan Feld games that were sitting on my shelf of shame.
1 - Bora Bora - I found the mechanism of this dice worker placement very interesting. So much we are trying to accomplish; get tattoos to gain point and to set the play order, collect shells to trade for jewelry, spread on the islands to collect resources and earn the finishing points, spend the resources to build buildings. Enroll the help of the men and women from the island to activate special abilities. Be prepared. You will want to do much more than can be accomplished.
Luna - Send you workers on the surrounding island to collect the special ability token to activate later. Then, have your workers take control of the central temple for points, possibly booting out rival workers. But the more workers are sent to the middle, the fewer workers that will be available to complete other tasks on the surrounding islands.
Those are the only two off the shelf of shame this week. The rest where old favorites hitting the table again.
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I managed to get three games off the shelf of shame this past week.
1 - Frustration Rummy - Technically, this plays with a regular deck of card, but my mother gifted me a Frustration Rummy board that you peg as you complete the contracts. It's nice to get a deck of card to the table.
2 - Bamboo - this was a Christmas gift. It was great to finally get it played. This one has a neat mechanism. We each have bamboo sticks with different actions printed on then. On your turn, you will activate one's of the same color to gather food, get items added to your board, and get goal cards to score from the layout of the items. Neat game.
3 - Wyrmspan - I have had this for a week now and have played it three times. And so far, I have lost three times. A spin-off of the popular game Wingspan with enough changes to own both in my opinion. This one feels a little thinkier for me. In a good way.
How about you? Got anything down from the shelf of shame?
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A couple of games made it down from the S.O.S. this past week.
1 - Catan the Dice Game: I quite enjoy this roll and write with the Catan theme. Roll the dice to collect the resources to build a road, or a settlement, or a city, or even a knight. After 15 rounds, the player with the most points wins the game.
2 - Dice Veggies: Technically, this one never made it to the shelf before getting played. My own copy was played with my daughter Lily, and we both quite enjoy it. Use the cardboard cleaver to chop away dice (ingredients) to complete different recipe cards
How about you? Shwd anything off the shelf of shame?
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I got three games off the S.O.S. ... kind of.
1 - Planet - Planet is super cool, especially for its components. Everyone received a Planet, and each turn, we will connect a segment of land that is held there by magnet. On the third turn, you also start competing to have animals populate your planet. Each animal has a terrain preference, and which ever Planet that provides this the most gets the animal card. After the 12th round, tally up the points collected from the animals populating your planet and your secret terrain goal. Fun!
2 - MetroX - This flip and write game was fast and fun. Each line can only be assigned so many cards, which will cross off stations on that line. But since some line intertwine crossing off on one line can help on and other line. The more stations crossed off, the better your score. This one was great!
3 - Forge - Technically, I have played this game before, but it was the prototype copy. This play was with my own copy that was just delivered. I really enjoy this worker placement game. Collect resources, complete contracts, and train your workers to get special ability. The first player to complete five goals triggers the end of the game, and then the one with the most points win. Great game.
Now, sitting at 22% of my game collection sitting unplayed.
How about you? Got anything played?
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Oops. With the excitement of releasing the first Top 100 video, I forgot to post my Shed the Shame Friday list. Since I did manage to get some games down from the shelf of shame; here they are now.
1 - Unspeakable Words - a Cthulhu themed work game that comes with the most adorable little Cthulhu minis. From the seven cards in your hand, spell a word and tally its value (each letter is worth a point for each angle it has), then roll a D20. If you roll less than the value of the word, you lose one of your Cthulhu minis, but you still score the word. If you are out, you go insane and are eliminated from the game. The last player standing or first to a hundred points wins the game. I quite enjoyed this one.
2 - Fairy Tile - This one was a cute version of chess. The princess can only move one space away unless she's on a castle, then she can teleport to another castle. The prince moves two spaces away. The Dragon travels in a straight line and stops when he reaches the edge of the map. Each player has a pile of cards, story book pages with a space requirement for the characters. Have the characters in the right spots, and you can turn to the next page. The first player to complete all their cards wins. You can also add tiles to the map to try and help meet your goals. Neat game.
3 - Penguin Pile Up - I got this one to try and have more games for a younger audience. Pile up the penguins on the iceberg and try not to have them fall. Cute game. My one complaint is that it would have been nice to have the assembled iceberg component fit in the box without having to dismantle it.
4 - Little Factory - neat little engine building card game. Collect resource cards to trade for other resources or to acquire building. These building will give you the ability to collect from your resource cards to convert them into other things. Cow can be transformed into a steak or leather. Neat little game.
5 - Holiday Hijinks #5: The Birthday Burglary - great littl
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This past week, I got five games down the S.O.S.
1 - Orichalcum: Add tiles to your player board and buildings on them to get gold and warriors. The warriors will battle the monsters that may have been added to your board. If you have a cluster of three identical terrain, you will attract a God that will provide a special ability. First, to collect five victory points and be monster free wins the game.
2 - Brew: Neat Dice worker placement game with an area control and resource management element to it. Spend your resources to bre potions and drink them for a one-time ability. Fast and easy to learn game that was a lot of fun.
3 - Pandemic Hot Zone North America: This is all the goodness of Pandemic condensed in a smaller package. Less disease to cute, fewer cards required to cure them. Smaller map. I still lost, like I so often do with Pandemic. Loved it!
4 - Terra Nova: speaking of smaller version of the original game. Meet mini Terra Mystica. Terra Nova has a very similar play to Terra Mystica but without the tracks. Expand your territories on the mad as you do, so the building leaving your player board will reveal what you will now receive during the income phase. For me, this is a fun step up from Catan. Great game.
5 - Monstrosity the Card Game: Collect monster body parts to create a monster. Then, power up its heart to have it come to life. The player with the highest scoring monster is the winner. The artwork is great, and the theme is fun. Neat game.
I'm hoping to get a few more played this weekend as I avoid the frigid outdoors. Only 154 more games to go. Wish me luck and restraint 😉
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I got two games down from the shelf of shame this week.
Emerge - Loved the nautical theme of this game, and its components are just lovely. Roll the dice to activate and either add an island, a plant, a crab, a turtle, a seal, or relocate a seagull to one of your islands. After eight rounds, each island scored its layers multiplied by the number of bits located on it. Easy to learn and quick to play. I very much enjoyed this one.
Layers - I found this one at a liquidation store. Each player gets five large double-sided square cards with different patterns and cut out area. Flip a goal card, and each player races to layer their cards on the correct side and order to recreate that pattern. It's a brain burner, for sure. Apparently, I like those.
I am sitting with 23 percent of my collection unplayed.
Did you get any new games to the table this past week?
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This past week, I got five games down from the shelf of shame.
1 - Tuki: This is a fun speed dexterity game. Roll the dice to determine the orientation of the card and then recreate the pattern with the blocks using the white ones to fill dead space and have the coloured ones in the correct position.
2 - Age of Dirt: A Game of Un Civilization: This one was neat. You assign your workers to different tasks. When a task is activated, all yhe meeples at that location are dropped into a tower. Those who come out activate the action. You can spend your drum ability to hit the tower with a club in hopes of getting more meeples out. Collect resources and spend those to acquire cards.
3 - Marvel Fluxx - Great artwork following the new Marvel Movies. And, true to all fluxx games. Simple rules that will change as you play.
4 - Jumunji Fluxx - based on the latest Jumanji movie. It's another great Fluxx game.
5 - Gaia: This was a neat tile laying game. And based on where the tiles are located where you can place the city cards. Place enough tiles to meet the objective to place a meeple on it, and place cities that you can assign a meeple to. The first player to have all their meeples out wins the game.
How about you? Got any games down from the shelf of shame (S.O.S.)?
