More boardgames played from home.
A different top game! Every other half-month for which I've
looked at the numbers it's been Rallyman GT, but in this period I've
finished 37 games of Letter
Tycoon. Tt
turns out that having lost lots of Scrabble games with my wife has got
me reasonably well-equipped to play word games against normal people;
I've got into the top ten players on BoardGameArena.
Still also playing lots of Rallyman:
GT of course.
I think my game is starting to improve again, slightly. Still, the
glorious plan
all too often turns to ignominy.
Finished off my ten games of
Maiden's
Quest for
the 10×10 (which at the time of writing still has 26 plays of various
games to go, including two games I haven't even touched yet).
Some more of Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering
Game
which I heard about only because it was nominated for the Pearple's
Choice Awards (which I'm administering). I'm not entirely enamoured of
the random setup but the basic idea, of turning an evenly-distributed
number of votes into a victory for one side or another, is a solid
one.
More Lemminge.
Really enjoying this, and if it weren't a complete pain to get hold of
(out of print, hard to find second-hand) I'd buy a copy.
More
Automobiles
too. I'm still quite bad at it, though I pull off the occasional
victory, but I love the bizarrely un-thematic feel.
Some more
Machi Koro.
Apparently I'm not the only person who reckons sticking with a single
die for the whole game is the best bet, at least with the standard
game as implemented on yucata.de; I gather expansions change this.
Some Potion
Explosion.
There are still players much better than I am, but I do rather better
than before when I play turn-based with plenty of thinking time.
Another game of Android:
Netrunner:
the chap who plays this with me is usually free in the evenings, when
I tend to be quite tired, so I'm not often in the mood for this fairly
complex game. Still good when I am.
Some more
Incan
Gold/Diamant
because I felt like luck-pushing.
The first half of
Jaws, a very minor
twist on asymmetrical hidden movement. Fun, but I can't see much
reason to play this rather than Whitehall Mystery unless you're a
fan of the film.
Some more Tobago,
bedevilled by BGA bugs.
V-Commandos
on the forum.
And Via Magica;
maybe I've just been lucky, but I've had far fewer instances of being
unable to make use of the symbol because all those slots were full
than I do in Rise of Augustus.
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