Games night

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

I 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?

Comments

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to agree with you, but it's so ingrained that I just shrugged it off. I think this is one of those games that I would not want as 1/30 but as 1/100 it's a bit more 'funny old fashioned weirdness' and less prevalent? There are a lot of games like that, which for all sorts of reasons I didn't want to be 1/30 of my collection but am happy to have as 1/100 and as a result, our collection started growing more rapidly once it hit triple figures.