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Game of the Month
Dec. 31st, 2014 12:06 pmThis month the game I have played the most is Tummy Ache. This is mostly because Andreas can only play a handful of games, and this is his favourite - the others take an enormous amount of concentration and thought, so while he likes them when he's in the right mood, that doesn't happen so often.
Tummy Ache is a game about food - you have to fill your plate with one veg, one starch and one protein, a pudding and a drink. Most of the food cards are good things - mushroom quiche or strawberry milkshake, for example - but some of them are not, they are things like wormy tomatoes or tadpole juice. It's one that all the children in our family like, but it's definitely a child game.
Close runner up, though, or possibly even equal as it's been such a big hit, was Munchkin Treasure Hunt, a Christmas present for Judith; move around the board, buy treasure, bash monsters, the person with the most treasure at the end wins. Again, I'm unlikely to play it without Judith but it's fun to play with her, and I can see why she's so enthusiastic about it.
This month we've had quite a lot of new games, too. Not just the Munchkin mentioned above. My aim is to play all our Christmas present games before the end of Christmas, and we're well on the way to that.
We gave Benedict Axis & Allies 1940, which has gone straight to his Dad's house so we can't play that. He wanted War at Sea really, but I couldn't find it in a timely fashion, and it turned out that that was because he didn't know about any of the ones in Inner Sanctum, so I chose the right one. I must pop in and thank them. He also received 12 Days which I saw on Tabletop and liked the look of and a geography quiz game which was fast and hard and quite fun.
Judith had the Munchkin and in her stocking an RPG, Risus, which we've been working through a solo player hobbity scenario. She's enjoying it so far and *loves* having her own dice.
Andreas has Disney Apples to Apples, which is almost but not quite within his reach - there's no reading but it still takes a lot of concentration to not just build up his hand with pictures he likes. I think that was not such a good present choice, but on the other hand, he seems happy so maybe it's OK. In his stocking, Aquarius which we haven't played yet but was one of Judith's favourites at about this age.
For adults/whole family, we have Dominion which I really enjoyed. It's fast moving and fun, and I think we'll play it a lot. Unlike others, I don't think it's too much of an overlap with Ascension although I can see how people describe the latter as Dominion written by a Magic player. I can see us playing both a lot. Unable,Unwilling which is a card game about Quaker organisation but enjoyable in an affectionate rather than mocking way by non-Quakers. We liked it a lot. Tokaido which we haven't played yet but looks to be different to anything we have, about journeying between Kyoto and Tokyo.
In other news, I was introduced to Magic! Various people have been promising to teach me for ages, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alextfish has a few decks specifically set up as teaching decks, so at their game night, I grabbed a couple of experienced players to talk me through it, and had a great time. Thank you! Hopefully I'll have more chances to play.
Tummy Ache is a game about food - you have to fill your plate with one veg, one starch and one protein, a pudding and a drink. Most of the food cards are good things - mushroom quiche or strawberry milkshake, for example - but some of them are not, they are things like wormy tomatoes or tadpole juice. It's one that all the children in our family like, but it's definitely a child game.
Close runner up, though, or possibly even equal as it's been such a big hit, was Munchkin Treasure Hunt, a Christmas present for Judith; move around the board, buy treasure, bash monsters, the person with the most treasure at the end wins. Again, I'm unlikely to play it without Judith but it's fun to play with her, and I can see why she's so enthusiastic about it.
This month we've had quite a lot of new games, too. Not just the Munchkin mentioned above. My aim is to play all our Christmas present games before the end of Christmas, and we're well on the way to that.
We gave Benedict Axis & Allies 1940, which has gone straight to his Dad's house so we can't play that. He wanted War at Sea really, but I couldn't find it in a timely fashion, and it turned out that that was because he didn't know about any of the ones in Inner Sanctum, so I chose the right one. I must pop in and thank them. He also received 12 Days which I saw on Tabletop and liked the look of and a geography quiz game which was fast and hard and quite fun.
Judith had the Munchkin and in her stocking an RPG, Risus, which we've been working through a solo player hobbity scenario. She's enjoying it so far and *loves* having her own dice.
Andreas has Disney Apples to Apples, which is almost but not quite within his reach - there's no reading but it still takes a lot of concentration to not just build up his hand with pictures he likes. I think that was not such a good present choice, but on the other hand, he seems happy so maybe it's OK. In his stocking, Aquarius which we haven't played yet but was one of Judith's favourites at about this age.
For adults/whole family, we have Dominion which I really enjoyed. It's fast moving and fun, and I think we'll play it a lot. Unlike others, I don't think it's too much of an overlap with Ascension although I can see how people describe the latter as Dominion written by a Magic player. I can see us playing both a lot. Unable,Unwilling which is a card game about Quaker organisation but enjoyable in an affectionate rather than mocking way by non-Quakers. We liked it a lot. Tokaido which we haven't played yet but looks to be different to anything we have, about journeying between Kyoto and Tokyo.
In other news, I was introduced to Magic! Various people have been promising to teach me for ages, and
alextfish has a few decks specifically set up as teaching decks, so at their game night, I grabbed a couple of experienced players to talk me through it, and had a great time. Thank you! Hopefully I'll have more chances to play.
