Tag: board games
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Geek Night At Rory’s
Geek Night tonight will be hosted by Rory again. Game suggestions welcome. By the way - JTA - we seem to have your copy of Illuminati here; guess you left it when you visited.
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Curious Bug
I was playing the Chess game in Clubhouse Games on the Nintendo DS last night, and I've discovered a bug that can occur in a very unusual situation. Normally, the game quite rightly allows you to only make legal moves. For example, when in check, the only legal moves are those moves which get you …
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It’s All Fun And Games
Back to work after a great weekend. Troma Night was particularly successful this week - we watched a RiffTrax'd copy of Eragon ("Get your ragons online at e-ragon!"), which was suitably hilarious; the classic bit of self-deprecating sci-fi that is Barbarella ("Hmm... camp bad guy number 104... how will Barbarella get past this one? Oh; … -
Diplomacy, Parcels, and WW2 RTS Games
What have I been up to of late? Well, as you ask...
Diplomacy
Ruth's game of Diplomacy got off to a fine start, and the backstabbing began soon afterwards. I'm not so keen on the engine, for reasons I'll discuss later. Here's how the map looks right now.
I'm the red guys down at the … -
Extended Geek Night As “Birthday Party”
Yay. Woo. I'm 25. Etc. Quarter of a century old. [Insert meaningful speech here.] Ahem. Thanks to all of you who came to Troma Night yesterday and saw my birthday arrive; and in particular to those of you who brought me alcohol. Bonus.
As I seem to have been given at least two (three if you … -
O what a beautiful moooooorniiiiing...
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Ruth wrote:
So, after raining for both my days off, it's now sunny again. I don't mind though. Friday I got rained on, had lunch at MGs, got rained on some more, did laundry, went for a bike ride and got rained on. In the evening … -
Man O' War Rules, Templates, Info Etc.
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Geek Night
Last night's Geek Night was fab: thanks to everybody who came. I didn't win a single game, but that's not what it's about at all, really, is it. Kings & Things was fab, and it was great to get to play Tigris & Euphrates again (and lose for a change, damnit, at it). It was …
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Infinity Games
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First Season Of Diplomacy
As I'm sure I've said, I'm running an online game of Diplomacy: my web-based adaptation of a classic 1959 board game of strategy and diplomacy. It's an unusual board game, in that (apart from the random assignment of countries, at the beginning), it involves no luck - the game is based entirely upon your ability …
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BoardGameGeek
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Diplomacy @ Geek Night
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Playing Lord of the Rings, in The Flat
I've been pulling old videos off of devices I used to use. This came from an early-2000s mobile phone, back when mobile phones were REALLY bad at video. It features Paul M, Ruth V, Matt R, JTA, and Claire M playing a single turn of the Lord of the Rings boardgame (it was a complicated … -
Board Games Making A Comeback This Christmas
Board games are making a comeback this Christmas, reports the BBC. That's interesting news. So go "Have Your Say" already, and tell them what your favourite Geek Night board game is!
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Weekend
I seem to spend most of my time on this blog posting retrospectively about what I did on any given weekend. Will try to spice things up with a little more thought and debateworthy stuff in the future - I've got some ideas. In any case:
Friday was Andy's gig - not as good as the …