One of the 1PG players got this a little while ago in a game exchange, and I played it at Airecon. Nothing revolutioary but good fun.
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Iād never heard of it before your post-Airecon mention, but I looked it up and thought it might be the kind of thing Iād enjoy playing, and then I saw that it has a decent reputation as a solo game, and then when I checked for prices out of interest I found somewhere selling it so cheaply that I simply couldnāt say no. Iāve also been to Lisbon, and had a lovely time there, albeit without visiting this particular location.
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Found a copy of Cockroach Poker at Goodwill for $3. Somewhat worn, but it was all there.
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Itās Potato Man, a solid trick-taker but with a Batman theme and some extra powers! Iām a little excited for this
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I hope youāve packed your Bat Potato Peeler in your utility belt!
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My shelf of shame this month:
Bought Hyperspace, from the designer of Cthulhu Wars and Glorantha. The game uses the more economical standees, which is good. But this also tells me that they no longer have the capacity to print such games after they went on administration. So, the old school editions of Cthulhu Wars and Glorantha are as good as dead. I believe any rerelease (if they do them) will be standees
Mint Rails - bought this from āTrain Rushā Joe. Not expecting this to be good. Indeed, Iām expecting this to be shit. But itās a train game inside a tin box of mint. Happy to be proven wrong.
CONIC - got this from the Maths Trade. Knizia game that is only released in Japan
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Bought Leviathan Wilds. remembered the positive review SUSD gave it years ago. Looked like something a bit different.
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As a gift to myself to celebrate my raise, I just ordered Cthulhu Wars. I blame @lalunaverde for talking it up so much.
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- Medina
- Magnate: the First City
- Rio Grandeās edition of History of the World
- Gibberers
- Tornado Splash
- Hercules and the 12 Labo[u]rs
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Ooh. I suspect Iād want to play this about once a year, butā¦
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I read that as Hercules and the 12 Layoffs. 
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I like to think of it as Hercules being forced into the role of a midwife.
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Iām imagining some excellent cartoon portrayals of Hercules learning the true nature of his forthcoming ordeal :).
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Played Acquire (I havenāt been posting in last game played as Iāve found it a chore adn have nothing new to say), acquired Acquire. New edition, for Ā£20
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Ooh, is this actually available anywhere? Itās been on my list for a while but Iām not aware of any options to buy it in English.
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I donāt think so. I only bought it 2nd hand
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So, not buying things is actually working at the moment. Huzzah.
I definitely want another Luke Laurie, but the jury is out on Cryo vs Eldervale vs Andromeda, and I havenāt expended much energy on figuring that one out.
I did get DuneImp Uprising + Bloodlines, but that is paired with a sale of DuneImp + Ix, so itās more collection management than new acquisition.
One net new is Chimera - which is a cheap little box where some dude loved Tichu but needed to play at three, so he gave Fight the Landlord the same polish treatment.
Unlike Tichu, it is a straight (if relabeled) deck of 52+jokers. All you need to play is the Chimera rules. However, thereās two reasons to get the actual box - one, there is a 5-player variant with some extra cards, but still resolves into 3 vs 2 gameplay reminiscent of FTL. The other is that the deck is essentially an in situ player aid, with the 3-A relabeled 1-12 and the Big 2 relabeled H - making it easy to remember that it is the high card and that it canāt be included in runs. Also, the scoring cards have their points printed on them. Not bad for $9.
This has, however, reignited my frustration with calling the climbing/shedding genre ātrick takingā and the now fully-assumed habit of calling the sequence from lead-to-clear a ātrick.ā
When they finally put me in charge of these things, here is what Iām going to make the world do. You can get started early if you like:
From sitting down to standing up / declaring a winner: Game
From deal to deal: Round
From lead to clear: Hand (NOT A TRICK)
Each individual group of cards added to the hand: Set (others have tried meld, combination, formation)
A one card set: Single
A Set of matching numbers: Row (and can obvs say Pair, Triplet, three of a kind to denote the length of the Row, if needed) (These are generally called a Set, leading to the trouble above)
A Set of consecutive numbers: Run
A Run of Rows (e.g. 223344): My jury is still out. I like Stairs from Tichu. Panda Spin calls this a Formation. Suggestions welcome.
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Most games call that a Run, in my experience. Poker calls it a Straight, so thatās common too. R.A.V.E.L.'s rule book calls it a āStreetā, which Iād never heard of in my life (and the BGG forums confirmed that I was very much not alone in that).
(The same section of that rule book also managed to use āmust notā instead of āneed notā, and so the unfamiliar terminology isnāt even the most misleading part!)
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I wonder if the distinction between a run and a straight is length? Yahtzee I think calls a 4 dice combo a small straight. But I donāt think Iād call a 3 card series set in Rummy a straight at all.
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These may well be the best terms for this specific case, but I think will cause confusion simply because from deal to deal is a hand in so many other contexts. You are dealt a hand, you play that hand, the span of play in which you do it is a hand.
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