Next Meeting, 30th April 2024

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 30th April 2024.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Canvas (review, rules, “How to Play” video).  This is a game where players…

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16th April 2024

Everyone seemed more keen on standing around and chatting that playing, but eventually, once everyone had arrived, people started dividing up into groups.  Ivory began by leading Jade, Sapphire and Cobalt to the other side of the room to play the “Feature Game“, which was the new “hotness” Let’s Go! To Japan.  In this game, players are travelers planning, then experiencing their own dream holiday…

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Gweeplefest 2024

Gweeplefest is an all day gaming charity event, dedicated to open table gaming held in Didcot, and organised by the Didcot games group, Gweeples. Along with a large number of tables for people to play games on, there will also be games designers showing off their new games, a large lending library with games experts available to teach and help out, a Bring and Buy sale, a family section, and of…

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Next Meeting, 16th April 2024

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 16th April 2024.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be the Let’s Go! To Japan (review, rules, instructional video).  This is a…

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2nd April 2024

While Blue, Pink and Cobalt were finishing their supper, Plum led a quick game of Draftosaurus with Black, Purple and Cobalt (who had already finished his pizza).   Cobalt was new to the game, so after a quick rules explanation the group were passing dino-meeples left and right and building themselves exciting dino-parks.  The game is really quick and simple:  players start with a handful of…

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Boardgames in the News: 20 Years of Some Great Games

This year is the thirtieth anniversary of 6 Nimmt!, but also the twentieth anniversary of two more small-box card games, Saboteur and No Thanks!.  All three are light, family-friendly games that play larger numbers, but they are very different in style.  While 6 Nimmt! is a game of double-think, No Thanks! is a game of push-your-luck and Saboteur is a hidden traitor game.  Looking back, 2004 was…

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Goats in the News: When the Goats get your Goat

Everyone loves a goat, though perhaps you can sometimes have too much of a Good Thing.  Riccardo Gullo, the mayor of tiny the five-square kilometre island in Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, Alicudi, came to exactly this conclusion when, after a recent census, he found the human inhabitants were of the island were outnumbered by their four-legged friends by more than  six-to-one.  The problem is the…

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Next Meeting, 2nd April 2024

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 2nd April 2024.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, to mark the thirtieth anniversary of 6 Nimmt!, the “Feature Game” will be the new Jumping Cow…

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Boardgames in the News: 30 Years of 6 Nimmt!

A little over thirty years ago, Wolfgang Kramer was traveling back across the border from Austria, when he and his wife were delayed because he was picked out by German border security for a luggage search.  Although they didn’t find any contraband, they did find Kramer’s export license, so they asked him to pay for their only purchase, a new pair of ski boots bought in Austria.  Scarred, or…

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19th March 2024

There were a few absentees again, but the group still made it into double-figures.  So, after the usual chit-chat, the group split into two—the first group playing the “Feature Game“, Meadow, while the other, larger group, played a couple of lighter games.  Meadow is a very smooth, engine building, set-collection card game with charming artwork.  Players take on the roles of explorers competing…

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Next Meeting, 19th March 2024

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 19th March 2024.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Meadow (review, rules, and how-to-play video).  This is a very smooth,…

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5th March 2024

The evening started with everyone unsure who was coming, so the nine players present split into three groups of three, with Blue, Pine and Lime starting with the “Feature Game“. This was the very short, light, Make the Difference, a game that is basically “spot-the-difference” in board game form.  The idea is that each player gets a pre-printed picture and simultaneously add five extra “features”…

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Next Meeting, 5th March 2024

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 5th March 2024.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Make the Difference (review and how-to-play video) a very quick,…

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20th February 2024

Once everyone had finished eating, we moved on to the usual difficult decision of who was going to play what.  The “Feature Game“, Wyrmspan which is a very new stand-alone game, based on the mechanisms of one of the group’s favourite games, Wingspan, with dragons instead of birds.  It was not as popular as expected, though that was at least partly because it was a relatively quiet night and many…

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Next Meeting, 20th February 2024

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 20th February 2024.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Wyrmspan (rules, review and How to Play video).  This is a shiny new…

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6th February 2024

People were still eating when Ivory rolled up nice and early to start setting up Ark Nova.  Although it was not the “Feature Game“, we are planning to feature the Marine Worlds expansion in the next few weeks and wanted to play the base game before we did.  So, Ivory was soon joined by Cobalt, Plum and Green on the other side of the table, leaving the rest to decide who would play the “Feature…

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Next Meeting, 6th February 2024

Next Meeting, 6th February 2024

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 6th February 2024.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be CuBirds (rules, review and How to Play video).  This is a very light and…

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