Sold Ticket to Ride: Play Pink.
Found out it was selling for £20, I like playing Pink but £20 is £20
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Die Patin too chaotic, I’d rather play El Grande
Metro, played it and remembered why I sold it first time round
Hollywood Golden Age, It’s fine.
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Right culling a few games. Anyone interested here in the following before I put it on FB:
Wavelength -£15
Search for Planet X- £20
Cthulhu wars duel - p&p only.
Wabash cannonball (Rio grande version sealed) - £15
Welcome to plus neoprene Mat and 4 alternative packs (sealed) - £15
Message if you want pics/details.
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I finally got around to putting up another add on Kleinanzeigen. And sold
- my old iteration of El Dorado plus expansions
- Search for Planet X (it seems I like deduction less than I thought. Maybe Turing machine soured me on the whole genre?)
- Verdant—just wasn‘t as great as Calico and Cascadia. Too much like Calico in many respects.
- Brew—picked it up on the idea that my partner likes games with dice. Taught myself the rules. Felt a bit lame.
- Treasure Island—we played it a few times. It‘s certainly fun. But I was thinking of trying the coop version at some point and this one wasn‘t getting to the table again.
- Fun Facts—one from the repos line that is too much like other games and while one game was fun, it didn‘t seem like I wanted to play this again over Just One or So Clover.
- Villagers—I had tried to give this to friends who returned it. I found this one pretty boring. One of the early KS I backed.
I have more on the sell list. But this is a good start.
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The more I look at Turing Machine the more I suspect I’ll have to get into the solo game to go beyond the basics.
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Also sold
- The Whatnot Cabinet–pretty but very little game and I have other set collection stuff
- Tindaya–I finally found someone interested in it.
What is weird about this round of selling: usually I have to make packages and run to Packstation 3 or 4 times for an ad… this time I have 3 people who wanted to pick up games.
DHL has become quite expensive and for people who only want a single game that’s just not worth it. Same for me which is why I always put a whole bunch of games in a single Kleinanzeige… so people can pick and choose. And I rarely ever send out packages with just one game. Except for collector’s items of course.
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And 4 more are going to Packstation: Cryo, Hidden Leaders, The King is Dead and Equinox.
- I can’t get the King is dead played. Just a bad fit for my local gamers.
- Cryo seemed just not as interesting as reviews had made it seem after learning. Both Spacebiff and SVWAG seemed to like it and I had wanted a somewhat classic worker placement game that wasn’t Uwe-farming. But I guess I might have wanted something that’s like Waterdeep and maybe if there is nothing quite like Waterdeep, I really want Waterdeep? (I’ve only ever played the app and quite like it)
- Equinox–so pretty, so Knizia, so excited to open it and then I couldn’t bring myself to even try and teach it to my partner. I still have well over a dozen Knizias…
- Hidden Leaders–we actually tried that. Not bad but one of those Crowdfunding things that just seems way more exciting on paper than it is on the table. I still have Royal Visit (Knizia! Ha!) for 2 player and this would never get to the table with more players over the rest of my collection.
also: I am always amazed how easy paypal and dhl+packstation make all this… I mean DHL is shitty expensive… but still it’s just so easy to use it all and have a nice solid label and bring it to Packstation night and day and… without those 2 I would never be selling ANY games.
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I’m starting to feel this way too. I mean, it’s OK, but lots of games are OK now, and I don’t think I’ve ever found myself saying “oh boy, I want to play Hidden Leaders again”.
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I’m happy with expensive delivery servives, if they’re good
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Loads at Aire Con, either in the BnB or pre sold on Facebook
A Feast for Odin with Norwegians - the skill ceiling I’ve hit is too frustrating now, plus it’s on BGA
Space Alert - Kate hated this and we never play it
Underwater Cities - good euro but we don’t play.
Keylower - I think I’m too rubbish at this to enjoy playing it, so never suggest it. I prefer Ethnos and Quartermaster General with 6 players
Biblios - it’s fine
Flick Fleet - basically because I got a good price for it and I’d like someone else to enjoy it because it sat in the drawer
Little Town - SUSD loved it, got it BNIS in a Maths Trade, never played it
Fuji Flush - never hit with us
Plus a few other bits and bobs. We paid for our tickets and hotel with the sales
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Dig. Tiny game, but it tries to be too much of a game, which it can’t be given its size, then a daft laugh.
BGA? It’s on there too. It’s become a great respository of games I really wanted to try but didn’t need to own, and Equinox is on that list.
Maybe you just want Waterdeep. It’s so simple and shallow I keep thinking that I should sell it. Parks is prettier and Architects has more chrome, right? Waterdeep just keeps delivering. Scoundrels gets it up to our gamer level. Undermountain adds more complex (read:interesting) quests and Skullport adds corruption. The game’s simplicity and apparent lack of depth, I’ve decided, allow full view of how fun the simple mechanics are. Like a steak that’s just perfectly salted, nothing else.
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Went to a local gaming convention yesterday with both a sale table and a trade table. Got rid of:
Last Will
Hyperborea
Story War complete collection
CTRL
Entdecker
In return I traded for, bought, or received:
Marvel United X-Men
Forge War
Some small box card game from the trade table
$35 profit
Not bad.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Just too many games and that one is not getting to the table. Fortunately sold it to a friend so if we get an urge, we can get access to play it.
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I’m fully prepared for the slings and arrows but… is anyone interested in a copy of the FFG Tigris & Euphrates (£70) before I put it on FB?
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One I’d love to have. £70 is fair but way out my budget right now.
Quite frankly why I don’t own it…
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This is too disorienting for me to have any hope of hitting you with a rock.
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First Martians
Well I say sold, failed to give it away for free so donated to charity.
I didn’t mind it.
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Continuing the give-away theme…
I brought a copy of Regicide on holiday as a little gift for my sister, but hadn’t given it to her before we visited my partner’s friends in Wiesbaden, and I changed my mind (should have brought more copies) and decided it should go to them instead.
They used to live in NZ and I found they have loads of Fantasy books in their shelves (an interest which extended to academic study), and they have two young kids who I thought would also love the art and might find the counting good practice. When I showed them the cards the 8-year-old named all of the animals on the Ace cards at a glance (including a pangolin and a fennec) which I thought was very cool, and I got to explain the NZ birds on the ‘5’ cards.
We then played a game (me, the 10-year-old, and his dad). I got them to install the assistant phone app to smooth out the maths (first time I’ve used it and it works nicely), and we played open-handed. We lost half way through the queens but I’d warned them in advance that winning was difficult. After the game the 10-year-old asked his dad if they could get a copy of it, and I realised he’d missed the memo, so I got to tell him “that is your copy” and he looked completely startled and said “what?” and looked to his dad for confirmation, and dad explained it was a gift, and then I got a hug :).
As I’m not entirely sure my sister would even have played it, I think I totally made the right decision :).
I’m only sad that it was a 1st-edition copy, as the 10-year-old and his mum both play guitar, and the 2nd-edition’s bards would have made it even more perfect for them. (At least they can see them in the app.)
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