Thanks everybody! After a bit of reading 6-7p games seem legit, so I’ll probably go with Anniversary.
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I enjoyed it with 7 players. It didn’t feel like lots of downtime, but I enjoy lots of table talk and chaos
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Friese’s Black Friday or (not Friese’s) The Rich and the Good.
Both have had the new edition treatment, and I think a pure stock trading game is something I want. Bear Raid didn’t quite hit the mark for me.
Bonus point for an opinion on Mercurios too.
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Really like Rich and the Good. The fact that you share different set of cards with your neighbours is a good idea.
Will be getting Black Friday
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I’ve played half a game of The Rich and the Good on the Ares demo team at Expo. It made sense; it didn’t feel particularly stock trading to me because the only things that happen to prices are things that players make happen, but you may feel differently.
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If a person has Blue Lagoon, does that person also get Through the Desert? Do you then keep both or do you get rid of Blue Lagoon?
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Does the calculus change if said person has daughters who are big into Moana?
Curious for opinions on how much overlap the games actually have and how much better TtD actually is; if the gap is material.
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Having played both I prefer the immediacy of Blue Lagoon and the mid game reset helps iron out placement errors somewhat (you can still mess up placing your huts).
That said winning TtD is more satisfying at higher player counts.
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I have both. I like both.
Blue Lagoon scores quite differently (it’s more point-salady) and ends more predictably.
Through the Desert is a cleaner game (if that matters to you), but for a family I’d probably recommend Blue Lagoon over it myself.
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I always meant to buy Honey Buzz at some point, has anyone played it?
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I have it.
Played a 2 handed solo to learn it and never managed to get it to the front of the play-queue. But last year has been low on multiplayer gaming opportunities…
Mine is currently half-way to the sell pile.
It has some neat ideas and if you really like bees it’s probably a cool theme.
Production values are good, though I feel the material for the honey could get sticky over time. I can take some pictures of inside the box later if you want. It’s very pretty.
It has a bit of an economy thing going on and the placement of the bee hive pieces is interesting. But apparently not interesting enough to get played over other competitive 3-4 player games. Now economic games don’t often make the table here.
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That is more plays than I remembered! I vaguely thought there’d been some 1st-time plays on here but was more wondering if anyone says “I’ll definitely keep it” after getting to know it longer-term.
It’s SO pretty, and BEES, but there just doesn’t seem to be any passion for it out there.
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We love Boney Buzz here. The economics+spatial puzzle mechanics are cool, the theme is interesting, the production is really nice and the artwork is fantastic. Definitely don’t regret that purchase.
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For those of you who’ve played John Company, how heavily does betrayal tend to feature? I’m trying to get some people together for a game and one of the potential players is fine with bribery, but not betrayal.
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These are the correct type of friends.
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They can renege on their agreement, but that’s usually a bad thing. Trust is important in these sort of situations.
The “betrayal” involved might be the crashing of the company. People might see that as betrayal or sabotage, but won’t realised that it is in the interest of at least one player to crash the company.
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We had one game where a player absolutely tanked the company, I can’t remember how but suddenly a lot of money left the coffers and he was swimming around like Scrooge McDuck.
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They must have a lot of shares and then dividend them all out leaving the company penniless??? I can’t think of other reasons
It was a while ago so I can’t remember. He’s the kind of person who would do something chaotic just because they could.
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There’s a blackmail card (a card you can potentially get on a successful retirement) that lets a player siphon money direct from the company coffers.
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