Back again to the boardgame café.
With images;
cc-by-sa on
everything.
We started with
T.I.M.E. Stories,
having skimmed the rules in advance; they're not all that complex, but
parts of them are written confusingly. They're trying to be generic,
because all the scenario content is on the deck of cards.
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So you take over the bodies of people in the 1920s asylum… but it's
basically a random clue hunt. In location A, interact with person B
and you will randomly be given token C (the dark blue token, not the
black token) which you can then use to look at card D if you go to
location E.
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It's an interesting idea, but I found it something of a grind, the
setting uninspiring, and no particular logic to what you can get from
where. Open this box, and it's a key; open that box, and it's a trap.
There's a lot of complexity in return for not a huge amount of fun. I
don't utterly hate it but it's not one I'm likely to play again; I'd
be more likely to go back to Tragedy Looper.
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We wanted something simpler after that, so gave
String Railway
a go: you draw random stations, and connect them with bits of string,
trying not to cross other strings (other players' tracks, river,
mountainous area).
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It's a bit random in terms of what stations you get, but it's
fast-moving and I rather enjoyed it. Might well give this another try,
though it would be better on a baize card table than on this rather
slippery black-painted wood.
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We finished off with some Timeline.
Timeline: Historical Events
for us is pretty much a matter of "who messes up first", since we
mostly get the questions right. (Or argue. The "dollar" as a unit of
currency predates the US Dollar by more than two centuries.)
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On the other hand,
Timeline: Music and Cinema
was a bit more of a challenge, with quite a few in the first game that
we hadn't even heard of. We did rather better in the second. I think
we're just too smart for this game; how terrible.
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