Games night
Jan. 19th, 2016 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ghoti_mhic_uaitI went to play games with people last night, and squoze in three new-to-me games and an old favourite I haven't played in a while.
Colt Express which struck me as being a bit like RoboRally with trains. It's super cute, fun and quick to play, and might help as a compromise between 'I want to play RoboRally' and 'I don't have the mental energy for RoboRally' and accordingly have added it quite high up my internal games wishlist. I think this is one everyone in our house could enjoy - also it reminded me that I want to introduce RoboRally to my uninitiated partner.
7 Wonders which we don't play nearly often enough. It's a resource building game, with an interesting pass the hand mechanic, which J loves and I love and I don't know how any of my partners feel, but it's cute and fun.
Ivor the Engine, which is not the same as the Ivor the Engine game I have, and whose principle value is the art work. I think I marginally prefer ours, which is snakes and ladders on one side and a 'go round the board collecting stuff' on the other.
Port Royal, which is the same sort of 'mostly luck but it's how you play it' game as Kniffel, a small quick game which I really enjoyed and am not sure whether any of the rest of my family would or not. I barely manage to persuade them to play Kniffel, although J loved it when she was A's age, so maybe this is a game for A and me?
Colt Express which struck me as being a bit like RoboRally with trains. It's super cute, fun and quick to play, and might help as a compromise between 'I want to play RoboRally' and 'I don't have the mental energy for RoboRally' and accordingly have added it quite high up my internal games wishlist. I think this is one everyone in our house could enjoy - also it reminded me that I want to introduce RoboRally to my uninitiated partner.
7 Wonders which we don't play nearly often enough. It's a resource building game, with an interesting pass the hand mechanic, which J loves and I love and I don't know how any of my partners feel, but it's cute and fun.
Ivor the Engine, which is not the same as the Ivor the Engine game I have, and whose principle value is the art work. I think I marginally prefer ours, which is snakes and ladders on one side and a 'go round the board collecting stuff' on the other.
Port Royal, which is the same sort of 'mostly luck but it's how you play it' game as Kniffel, a small quick game which I really enjoyed and am not sure whether any of the rest of my family would or not. I barely manage to persuade them to play Kniffel, although J loved it when she was A's age, so maybe this is a game for A and me?
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Date: 2016-01-19 01:56 pm (UTC)Is Kniffel the same thing as Yahtzee? I don't mind Yahtzee but it feels a different category to Port Royal, to me: Yahtzee feels "mostly luck" where Port Royal feels like "press your luck". People certainly can get lucky, but it feels different somehow, though I'm having difficulty putting my finger on why. Maybe just because I heard about Port Royal in a eurogames context?
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Date: 2016-01-19 02:05 pm (UTC)I agree that there is a differnece in how it felt, but that was the closest; possibly because my Granddad had a saying 'You can't change the Kniffel rolls but you can change the way you play them'. It never felt pure luck to me.
It's in my handbag so we can play whenever I happen to see you and see what you think.