Last game you bought?

[Bondy034]

Well happily a batch of games I ordered and expected to receive after Christmas turned up at my door today! And with a game day scheduled for tomorrow no less!

The Quest for El Dorado, which I’ve been wanting to try for ages - finally found a copy in Aus!

Blue Lagoon, because one Knizia just isn’t enough…

No Thanks, which I already own but this is the new printing with the bigger cards and is better looking. Wondering now if I should gift my old copy to a friend or keep it (as the box is significantly more portable)

Coatl, this one looks really nice, hopefully it backs that up with fun.

Truffle Shuffle, which after the roaring success of Point Salad, I couldn’t wait to pick up. I suspect my wife might enjoy this one, if I can convince her to play anything that’s not Boggle or KLASK…

[raged_norm]

@Bondy034

No Thanks ,… (as the box is significantly more portable)

It’s why I sought out an old edition.

[bort]

Bought Through the Desert, because its Knizia, and there doesnt need to be another reason.

Oh, and some more Alien models for Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps, because I thought,“what if i run out of aliens?”

[RogerBW]

@bort

“what if i run out of aliens?”

Ooh, a cruel way of making money: “If you run out of alien models, you lose. Add-on packs are available…”

[Griffster77]

Ticket to Ride - My First Journey - the quest to get the kids interested in decent boardgames continues

[Boydesian]

Ugh. I am a weakling. My recent purchase of Europe Engulfed prompted me to add Asia Engulfed to my “want list” at my favorite online shop. Those are a bit harder to find than EE, and I expected to have to wait awhile…but I just received a notification that they have just received one (and in excellent condition), so yeah. And this is only a few days after I was able to find an old, WAY out-of-print game that I have been combing the Earth for for many years. Oh well, you only live once.

[Whistle_Pig]

I have some “fill your own” crackers for Christmas, so I used that as an excuse to buy an Oink game to distribute among them and play after lunch. I decided on Mr. Face because it a) has lots of pieces that will fit in a cracker and b) looks completely ridiculous.

[GeeBizzle]

I continued my greedy gaming month and bought a copy of food chain magnate. Managed to get a copy off eBay with a nice insert.

Now just need to find time to play some of these games.

[Boydesian]

@Boydesian

And this is only a few days after I was able to find an old, WAY out-of-print game that I have been combing the Earth for for many years.

…and it was just delivered! It’s a complete boxed copy of Chaosium’s 1984 Ringworld RPG. I’m not really into RPGs, but I am an immense Ringworld/Known Space nerd, and this game is chock full of info that was all Niven-approved. It’s in great shape, plus it also contains the separately published Ringworld Companion! I didn’t realize that it did, because it wasn’t mentioned in the description. Score!

[mistercrayon]

Nice idea!!

[Number1TheLarch]

Oh goody, the copy of Ticket to Ride Europe which I ordered to play with family on Christmas day has arrived… the family which (as of Sunday) I now can’t visit.

I never thought receiving a board game would make me feel sad…

[Chewy77]

Fingers crossed you will soon be able to play with them. Cannot get that vaccine soon enough…

Great family game, by the way. One of my daughter’s favourites.

[VictorViper]

We ran a Secret Santa tonight with some of the local board gaming crew, via Discord and Messenger. It was originally going to be a white elephant kind of thing, but everyone seemed pretty keen about gameifying things a little. At the last minute we decided to adapt the dice bidding mechanic from Unearth and given the level of preparation it went pretty well (with a few emergency oversights getting hotfixes).

I actually think there’s a really compelling alternative to the typical white elephant/nasty Santa structure here (with some work), particularly in the traditional setting with a big group together; A few of the elements would benefit from the timed component of a traditional silent auction, for example.

Anyway, nice to chat “face to face” again with folks who’ve been exclusive text buddies for the last year now. Per the thread though, and courtesy of @Seryn I am now (eventually) the proud owner of Nothing to Talk About, and Cats and Cops from the Tokyo Washi Game series. Weird stuff! And I bid hard on it too.

[yashima]

I got a surprise package today–wasn’t supposed to arrive until after Christmas.

It contained the Tuscany expansion for Viticulture and Alubari which I played at Spiel when it came out which was so long ago I don’t remember–probably last year–at Spiel ist was sold out and then it took a while to arrive in shops and then I waffled and waffled and then a friend bought it for her partner and by the time I decided that didn’t matter it was sold out everywhere. Now it’s back in print and just as pretty as I remember and I finally have a tea themed game and it’s set in India and it has a railroad.

[SteveB_uk]

I got tired of not finding a normal-priced Viticulture in the UK (or it just being out of stock entirely), and ordered it direct from Stonemeier’s page

Should arrive in January. (Saw one too many top 10 lists with folks putting it very high indeed, it’s time to get it)

[gmwhite999]

I’ll be ordering the Tuscany expansion in the new year, and probably the metal coins for Viticulture too. Something wonderfully tactile about handling metal coins during such games.

[Boronian]

I got 5 Minute Dungeon from my wife as a Christmas present, which is a game we played often at friends and is great to have in our own collection for a hectic though relativels easy set up coop real time game

[Captbnut]

A couple of light party games were given in our house

[Captbnut]

And some heavier stuff!!