Back to the boardgame café.
A return to The King Is
Dead, which we
last played here in 2017. (The shop copy is a bit the worse for wear.)
Still enjoyable, but I don't feel the sense of "oh, wow" that many
people apparently do.
On to Mysterium
Park.
Well, it fell a bit flat; with only two guessers, if one of them gets
it right first time, the other is stuck for a series of all the cards
left in the ghost's hand being ones that weren't part of their clue
last time… I like the condensed layout and Codenames-style cards
rather than the bulk of the screen in full Mysterium, but it does
mean a successful player is hanging around rather than jumping forward
to the next stage while a less-successful player is catching up. Hmm,
I wonder whether I might build something to handle this as an app?
That's not usually my style, but this is already a very distancing
game for the ghost.
King of Tokyo
next, and I've done quite badly with this in the past, but managed to
pull off a win this time – not I think from any particularly cunning
tactics, but with only three players it's easier to stay "in" through
all other players' turns and thus get a two point bonus at the start of
one's own.
Machi Koro,
which I still think is broken: I loaded up on convenience stores to
the point that I'd get 20 coins any time I rolled a 4, and this
happened just often enough to give me the win.
And finally, a Marvel Comics version of
Timeline
(doesn't seem to be on BGG) which came out more like Top Trumps:
each card (hero, villain, etc.) has a strength, a thinking ability,
and something else I now don't remember, and one chooses one of those
at the start of the game to use as the equivalent of a date. I had
heard of about half of the characters so I was going by costume.
Probably fun for people who actually know the Marvel setting.
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