Out:
Enemy Anemone
Bebop
String Railway
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Is the game better than the name?
It makes me wonder: Is an anemone of any enemy the enemy of my anemone?
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No, fairly pedestrian must not follow tricktaker that plays up to 6
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The anemone of my enemy is my frond.
Edit: The internet has given me the better line:
With fronds like these, who needs anenomies?
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Got rid of a few games in the bring and buy at Handycon:
- Wok and Roll
- In a Grove
- Insider
- Mr Face
- Falling Skies
- Super Skill Pinball
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Out
- Ra. This is a cheat I’m in on the acrylic edition
- Zoo Vadis. When it’s good it’s the best. When it’s the worst. Had more plays where it’s the latter.
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I came back from Wellycon without:
- Small Islands
- Lost Kingdoms: Pangea in Pieces
- Zooloretto Mini
- Trailblazers (a second copy I’d purchased accidentally; not readily available here, so easily sold at cost)
- Ulterior Design
- Fluttering Souls
- Orchard
- Expansion for Dreadful Meadows
That was 8 of the 11 things I was hoping to offload, so I did pretty well, but I do wish the others had gone as well, as most of the above are very small boxes, and I don’t think I’ve saved any shelf space!
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I am down to a single copy of Hallertau.
Not quite what to do with all this space in my house.
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Roads & Boats?
9 Likes
Out:
Anamoly, still NIS after 5 years? A sign. Out it goes.
Warhammer Underworlds, because I tried Spearhead and wasn’t crazy about it. No reason to keep it if it could go to a good home.
Wavelength because Ito is faster, smaller, and possibly better.
Dragon Castle because it’s fine but gods what a PitA to setup. Azul is better and faster
Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, New Salem, and Dead of Winter because I realized I am just never in the mood for traitor games where the betrayal is the reason to play AND it’s assigned randomly.
Oathsworn because we finished as much of it as we could stomach. 12 of 22 missions, but we were all done and the writing got worse and worse…
Coyote because bluffing is fine but Spicy and Cockroach Poker both do it better.
Fog of Love because my partner doesn’t like it. Sad about this one, but such is life.
Vindication for being huge, cumbersome, and utterly mediocre.
Empires of the Void because it’s fine but my collection and my life are rapidly losing patience for “fine.”
Curious Cargo because my partner hated it. Again, sad, but no mercy any more for games I never play.
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My collection is now (relatively) small that my culls in recent waves are a bit sad. I haven’t sold it yet, but I’m letting go of Age of Innovation - aka Terra Mystica 2. Love this game, but opportunity costs means that it’s taking plays from other “big 2 hours games” like The Great Zimbabwe or FCM.
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The last game i sold was my Magic The Gathering collection.
My main deck had a value of 10k€…
The money was used to build my house 
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I sold Imperium: Legends at Mini Wellycon today. Osprey’s last sale had (for reasons unknown) made some games so cheap for me that I decided to do something I’ve never done – purchase cheap games for the sole purpose of selling them (to offset the cost of the things I wanted for myself).
It had been slightly tempting to go crazy and buy a ton of copies of some things, but in the end I kept it very minimal and only picked up (for sale purposes) a single copy of Imperium: Legends, Brian Boru (one for me and one to sell), and Village Green (which I might just keep to give to someone as a gift rather than sell; I’m quite fond of this game). I was very confident in shifting that small set, and am happy to hang on to them until they sell if they don’t go this weekend. I just didn’t want to run the risk of winding up with multiple copies of things which weren’t selling, and I also felt a bit weird about taking too much advantage of the sale (because it honestly felt like maybe some of the prices were a mistake).
The person who bought Legends had a copy of Imperium: Classics in their bag next to them, which I figured they’d brought along, but it turned out they’d bought Classics earlier in the day and decided to take the opportunity to get Legends at a good price as well when they saw I’d added that to the shelves.
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And today I sold Villainy and Little Town, which were two things I’d not managed to sell at the previous Wellycon. I wasn’t keeping those in my main shelves, so ostensibly I haven’t freed up any shelf space, but I’m happy to see them both in new hands. Villainy was a very cheap whim that in the end I never played. Little Town was a slightly pricier punt that I didn’t dislike but simply didn’t see myself choosing in preference to other games, so it went on the sell pile.
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I’ve had a mixed bag at this. Forbidden Stars got me a mint, and I shifted two copies of Memoir 44: Easter Front to offset other bits of Memoir.
However, Troyes stubbornly refuses to go out of print and the Memoir 44 New Flight Plan, which I tripled down on to diversify risk (vs all Eastern Front), didn’t pan out as well.
But who knows how it will end up, what with an attic and some patience.
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The Old Kings Crown has gone.
Played it once and it felt like an overwrought Air, Land and Sea. Got it out at the weekend and my main emotion when relearning the rules was boredom and I really didn’t want to play it again.
It’s beautiful, but it needs repeat plays with the same group and I have Spirit Island for that
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So my resolution for 2026 is to get rid of some of my board games and sell them.
It is a bit annoying because it is mostly not worth the time and energy for me (the communication with potential buyers can be exhausting) but they take space away and it is time. Some haven’t seen a table in 6-7 years.
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This sounds like my Kleinanzeigen experience. Which is why my sellpile keeps growing not shrinking and I am considering just moving games into the basement where I have a few empty shelves. My life currently has no bandwidth for doing the whole Kleinanzeigen-Dance.
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Putting a big shelf in the basement is another project for this year 
And yeah maybe I move things down there but yes, I was talking about Kleinanzeigen (our version of Craig’s list I guess).
Like you I had some bad and annoying communications there but to be fair the last two were great.
Sold my old TV and one display and both for a very good price (good for the buyers) and the buyers didn’t even try to haggle. Both came, looked at it, took it, gave me the money. It was all done in only a few messages.
That’s probably the reason I consider doing it again but I am sure my luck can’t hold 
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Boardgame buyers always haggle and since most shops still don’t charge for shipping at 50+ € and DHL keeps raising prices (my last known price for a squarebox boardgame was 6€) in order for selling games to make any financial sense beyond “rehoming” a game one almost has to bundle games and put in some freebies and … at some point in time I lived close to a Packstation where mailing off the sold games was trivial at least.
I have had a few rare cases where I could sell games for high prices. But for those games the buyers tend to want to know a lot about the games, and see extra pictures and it goes back and forth and… still at prices of 200+ € I am willing to do that. But for games that I am selling around 10-20€ … nope.
edit: also I am getting rid of games because I dont love them enough but the buyers want me to praise the games … that is such a Gratwanderung (tightrope act, except we’re talking mountains)
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