What BOARD GAME(s) have you been playing?

Received Splendor over the weekend, and it has proven to be a big hit with my wife. I've played one three-player without her, and three two-player with. It scales very well.

I think this is the strong lead for the SdJ this year. The game is very simple, yet engaging. It has a bare-bones trade-this-for-that sort of game play, but that simplicity is its strength. It's easy to grasp and quick to play.

The components are very nice, but the box is way too large. I wish they had put it in one of those Kosmos two-player boxes.

So last Friday we got together for our now very irregular nights of Rock band, which is basically an excuse to share big bottles of microbrews and shoot the shit. Also doubled as my birthday bash. First time new dad got to hang out in 3 months since his daughter was born and I hadn't even seen him since before Christmas. We were 6 so decided to pull out board games rather than do the rotation thing.

Played two games of Dixit Odyssey. After I destroyed them in the first game, one of the girls suggested we try a dirty version for game 2, every one agreed, why not? By this point I was probably the drunkest of the lot, but I couldn't let my domination at this fine game be threatened. Highlight was when new dad's turn came up and he said "German". Of course there was the usual South Park movie reference, then cards were revealed and votes were tallied. I couldn't believe that FOUR of them voted for my card (which had little toy soldiers walking out of a metronome), while none voted for new dad's (the weird picture of mop monster besides a bucket of brownish slop - cue the above-referenced South Park)! Hilarity ensued and I was literally rolling on the ground and laughing and crying my eyes out (no kidding). I went on to confirm my supremacy and won the second game as well.

Then a short 4p game of Perudo where my brother won with all 5 of his dice.

We did wrap up with 30 minutes of RB: Beatles. Such a good game.

Pathfinder card game tonight!

I WANNA PLAY! Where do you live, Bob? If you need a good guitarist/bassist for RB, I'm your man! RB: Beatles is a blast too. I miss playing those games so much.

I would love for Harmonix to launch something for the new consoles but I dread the idea of more plastic instruments everywhere.

I'm in Gatineau, we usually play at my buddy's in Orléans (Ottawa east end), roughly 40 minutes away. Long drive for you though.

He's been playing Rocksmith lately and enjoying it, even making money buying the guitar kits on sale and reselling them for 100% profit.

what's your buddy's name gamertag? I used to play Call of Duty with this francophone guy who became insane at Rocksmith (he played lots of RB3 too).

I used to go to Orleans all the time at Kool Kards Haven back when I used to compete at CCGs. The guy that runs that shop is insane. He threw my friend out once and threatened to call the cops.

There was a card shop in Gatineau I went to once for a sword tournament (these LOTR tournaments back in the day) and i won a Sting replica. I wore it once at Halloween when I dressed up as Frodo downtown and got stopped by the cops cuz it was a real sword and sharp as hell.

wadenels wrote: Had family in town over the weekend. Sat out on the deck and played about a dozen games of Crokinole, some 30 hands of Pairs, and at least a dozen hands of Cheaty Moth. Great fun was had, and much beer was consumed. Drunken Wade is a good cheater, but a piss-poor Guard Bug.

What the hell is Cheaty moth? I googled it and got nothing? Sounds like something I want to play. Card game?

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/105593/mogel-motte

My last gaming until Origins so I had to make it count. Unfortunately, only 3 of us showed up.

First, we got in 2 games of Wiz-War with the Malefic Curses expansion. Awesome as hell. The new spells were chaotic and wonderful. I ended up winning the second game by throwing down a Prismatic Mist and then beating around the other Wizard and knocking him back and forth through it, causing him to get torn up and lose all of his spell cards. Brutal.

We then finished with a game of Manhattan Project also using the expansion. I won this but it was a close game. I only had 5 buildings all game, but was able to take advantage of my Nations power often enough (Soviet Union). North Korea and South Africa went down hard.

Played Fealty last night and Feudo tonight.

I had played Fealty once before and was luke-warm on it. This time it clicked more and I really liked it. It's very abstract in kind of the same way that Kingdom Builder is abstract. It's also that kind of brutal where experience pays off. It's plenty mean with blocking and your placement options diminish as the game goes on. I like it a lot. I don't typically get into abstracts much but this is one I'll happily play.

Feudo is cool. My first time playing it, and we played with just 2 players. I like how critical positioning and planning are in setting up successful attacks as well as defending yourself and your claimed cities. I love the randomness of the Plague too, even though it generated a fair amount of cussing on a couple occasions. It's a great example of a game that does just enough to be good without getting too complex. It also gives rise to some funny situations. One of my knights spent too long in the convent after being plague-stricken and converted to a life of religious service. Don't need soldiers with weak bloodthirst in my army anyway, says I. Milady came on to my Baron but the plague struck her before she made her way into my camp and my noble Baron -- despite a long and weary campaign -- didn't go for that poxy look she was wearing, discerning bachelor that he is and all.

I'm a little surprised I haven't heard more about Feudo around these parts. Looks like Drake/InfinityMax panned it in his review, but I found it to be pretty solid.