boardgames

We played a couple games of Caylus 1303. In the first game I went all in on bundling and milking point generation tiles and managed to win without building any residences or monuments. In the second one my partner stole it by grabbing the 20 point monument last turn.

It's really cool that despite being one of the earliest worker placement games Caylus has held up so well. Still feels quite unique.

On BGA I've been enjoying Knarr a lot. Simple rules but crunchy decisions. I love the way you can destroy part of your engine but get permanent upgrades or points.

We had a busy week but managed to meet up with some friends this weekend and played some Everdell with 4 players - it was a good game and a tight race with the top 3 players all differing only by 1 point each. I think its a solid game which is a more complex gateway game into the world of boardgames. Its almost more complicated to explain vs playing

We also played Secret Valley which is a neat little card drafting and laying game. Each card has certain victory conditions to score points and during drafting you select on card and pass on the rest to the player next to you until you just get the final card left over from your neighbor. Each player will have 5 cards with differing victory conditions. You the start laying down the cards in a 4x4 grid layer, one card per player at a time. The cards usually score points based on what kind of cards are around them and you will try to maximize your own score while diminishing your opponents. Its a fun little game that can be played in 20min

We also played Ark Nova in a two player session, still the best game :)

König und Konsorten by Parker games.

No idea what's the English name.

It's a better version of Uno for me. It has a bit more options and variants for players and leans into the funny stuff more than Uno ever did. Fun game for casual players to not play Uno

Ra, D&D, Baduk, Magic, and Hansa Teutonica. Ra was good. Hansa Teutonica was… well, most actions won 🤷🏻‍♀️