A fine looking slab of hog, there.
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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII’m outta here! Two weeks holiday! Yay!
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Me too! But 1.5 weeks.
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In reality, they scream.
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It’s “Grunz grunz” in German and “Knor knor” in Dutch, and I like how ALL OF THESE are correct 
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It tends to be described as a portrayal of a sleeping woman. She’s not asleep: look at the foot.
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I don’t live that close to Luton (and the Radio 1 Big Weekend) but I can pretty clearly hear Coldplay this evening.
Would be nice if I liked Coldplay.
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Forgot to add this to my two vacation reports. So here are the games we took on vacation.
Should be easy to spot which stack is mine.
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My eldest has extended his stay in West Wales to go camping with some friends. We forgot (among many things) a lamp so we bought a new one
Its great, however the bottom unscrews to “hold the included USB cable”. I think this is clearly designed to smuggle drugs into festivals.
At least we’ll be able to resell it when he gets home!
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Trick question! Both stacks are yours! Otherwise you aren’t doing it properly.
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Was in town, had to visit FLGS. Talked to one of the sales guys who came up to me saying “I can try to help but I guess I won’t be able to”. (The other one still tries and sometimes succeeds–that one plays more newer games but he wasn’t there today). I didn’t buy anything–looks like the Sommerloch is already upon us or maybe die Vor-SPIEL-Flaute. I was wondering where the nominations for SdJ were… apparently they are pushed back so they aren’t “over-shadowed” by the soccer stuff. Then he asked what I thought was going to be nominated. And I went “Oops… no idea?”
I struggled a bit to come up with candidates–not every year has a Cascadia or Die Crew. So after some more deliberation here are a few guesses what might make the nomination lists (I may be wrong with the cutoff for which year a game can be nominated). Mostly I have ideas for Kennerspiel:
- Mischwald
- Skyteam
- Daybreak (probably not because it has to be widly available and it is absolutely not)
- Other choices might be Darwin’s Journey, World Wonders, Nucleum, Knarr or Vale of Eternity which have all been published in German and are available. I probably shouldn’t check FLGS but the bookstores to see what they have.
- Not nominated b/c no German Edition: Fit to Print, Sunrise Lane, Hegemony, Dune Imperium: Uprising
- Not sure if it should have been on last year’s list and got snubbed: Earth
I am coming up short for actual SdJ weight games:
- Oops these were on last year’s list: That’s not A Hat, Hitster
- No buzz (this has rarely kept games from being nominated but still): Mycelia, Nunatak, MLEM
- No German edition: Harmonies (edit: apparently there is a German edition but “widely available” is not what this is but that might be because of the buzz/hotness? As much as I enjoy it–I just played 2 solos–I am not sure it has the staying power for SdJ), Nekojima (Huch! bungled that one)
Just some musings because I can.
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Okay so the nominees are there. Let’s see:
Kennerspiel
- Daybreak – obvious to me
- Ticket 2 Ride Legacy – really? A game that expensive? I guess Ticket 2 Ride never got SdJ and so they felt the need or is it that bad of a year?
- Guild of Merchant Explorers – another one that was late to the German market and I had totally lost track of when it got here because I got the English edition 2 years ago? It’s fine. But I never guessed this would make the list.
Mischwald only made the Shortlist. Oh well. I don’t get that over at least 2 of the actual nominees. Maybe I should play the ones I haven’t played as much as Daybreak (up to 66 plays solo + 2 player mostly) to see how they are “better” than Mischwald or at least better suited for Kennerspiel.
Spiel des Jahres
- Sky Team – not having played this one I thought it would be Kennerspiel. Too bad it is 2 player exactly. I doubt this would be worth getting for me. And it doesn’t sound like the kind of game I have to own. I’d rather try it on someone elses table. Or at SPIEL but last year all the tables were swamped all the time…
- Captain Flip – this one I never heard of before, never seen it at a shop.
- In the Footsteps fo Darwin – I only know about this because I was watching The Dice Tower a year (or 2?) ago. Tom Vasel really enjoyed this. It sounded too simple for me and I already had one Darwin themed game (Journey) I didn’t enjoy. But it sounded interesting at least. I think I’ve seen copies at the various shops I frequent. I hope this wins so our friends buy it and I can try it
Harmonies made the shortlist. I kind of expected that. It is a good game but something feels like it is not sufficient for SdJ however much I personally like it. The only other one I heard about from the shortlist is Trekking through Time and that one I only know about because it was also recced by the Dice Tower crew about a year or two back. But it was mostly unavailable and my other buddy analysis pals on BGG thought it was too simple. Which makes it good SdJ material I guess. Maybe I need to play that one, too
It’s nice to have some inspiration for games to check out at SPIEL that aren’t exactly super new. Also I was thinking of getting Guild of Merchant Explorers onto the sell pile, I think I need to revisit that one to understand how it comes to be nominated .
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Its a fun little filler. Not masses of decisions but its goes quick and does have a little bit to it.
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I’m at a cheap hotel tonight as I’m at awards do.
The WiFi Password is the default router one. I won’t be connecting to that…
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Eh, you’re encrypting everything anyway, right? I mean, it could be the best wifi security in the world, or even a good old-fashioned ethernet socket, but it still has to go through the hotel’s infrastructure, and whatever lowest-bidder company they outsourced the access to, before it even hits the Internet…
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The German military would.
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