When I heard we'd be playing a game called Three Sisters, a line immediately flashed into my head: Ta ra ra boom de yay, sit on a stone I may. This has nothing to do with the board game Three Sisters. It's a line from Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters, Act 4, though translations from the Russian…
I join A, M, and J on most Friday nights for a game night, so my "last night" recap is normally typed on Saturday. I'm typing this on a Sunday. Am I a liar? Well, maybe. But not this time. We continued to play Emberleaf until 1AM, technically into Saturday. From a certain perspective, that game still…
J couldn't make it last night, so we invited a different gamer whom we all knew. He and A shared the same first initial ("A", in case you hadn't guessed). So I'll refer to the original A as A0 and the other as A1. The game we played was Micro Moonshine. The players are running illegal liquor…
We played Soul Raiders again last night. If you're interested, I strongly advise you to look at my write-up of our previous game. That essay has a much better presentation of the game than what I have here. This is the first time we've played the game in which we could not complete the chapter in a…
Yesterday A, J, M, and I (as in "I" myself as opposed to an anonymizing initial) got together for an afternoon of gaming. It proved to be complicated for an unexpected reason: there was a firefighters' parade in the streets near A&M's home. It took me about an hour to find a route to get to their…
Due to various life circumstances, last night was the first time in weeks that I could sit down with A, J, and M to play board games. We played three games. The first two were both Railroad Tiles. We don't often play the same game twice in a single night. Railroad Tiles was a short and fun…
Last night, I played Soul Raiders with M and A. As I often do, I forgot to take photos of the game while we were playing it. My usual reaction is to just not write an essay about it. Then I looked at a couple of pictures that M had taken of my cat Shuba as he…
Yesterday, I told Real Angela that I was going to have an extended afternoon-to-evening game session with J, M, and A. (As an aside, they all knew each other from game events like the masquerade party I threw in 2019.) She asked the obvious question, "What are you going to play?" I explained that I couldn't answer.…
When we get to the end of a game, I often forget to take photos for this series of blog posts. Last week we played Apothebakery. It was a lot of fun, but I don't have any pictures of it. Last night we played two games, both by allplay. They seem to emphasize small, short, inexpensive games.…
Last night we played Ducks in Tow. It's an "action efficiency" game: You have to figure out how to gain points (mostly represented by ducks in your play area) while wasting as few moves as possible. For us, Ducks in Tow was a relatively short game, taking only two hours to play. (Yes, the box says 30-60…