I used to go to the Reading Boardgames Social quite a bit, but they
went silent. I recently learned that they'd moved to Facebook and now
Meetup, and went along to a Sunday afternoon meeting at the Greyfriar
in Reading.
We started with
Second Chance,
a new card-and-write which seemed to overcome the lack of meaningful
choices in many roll-and-write games: you're filling in squares on a
grid, but you choose one of two shapes each turn. A slight inclarity
in the rules explanation didn't help, but it was enjoyable even so.
We tried
Die Kutschfahrt zur Teufelsburg
next; this dragged a little with eight, and I need to write a clearer
rules document so that I can explain it better, but people got the
hang of what was going on.
The groups split, and five of us played a couple of games of
Parade (the early
edition I got in a BGG trade). That stretched us in the right sort of
way.
For a change of pace,
Blame Space…
and with four players, I came second with zero blame. (But the other
guy had a smaller hand, so he won.) This is a game with obvious flaws,
but I'm starting to think that that's better than hidden flaws.
Finally,
Iota, at which I
did remarkably badly. Too hot, or something.
It's a good bunch of people, and while I don't have all that many free
weekends I may go along from time to time in future.
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