Games
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Rarest Dice Masters Card
Preston and I are getting into Dice Masters lately. This is a collectible card/dice tabletop game. Like other collectible card games, you buy booster packs and never know what you will get until you open them. Preston and I love the thrill of cracking open a new pack to see what you get. It’s nice when you get a box (of 90) booster packs to open with your son, and a single card more than pays for the whole box (or would if sold). The Full-art, ultra-rare Black Lantern Batman (see picture) we snagged is currently going for about $100.00 on ebay and CoolStuffInc.com. From what I…
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A Day at the Natural History Museum
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Game Night: King of New York, Tokaido, Toscana
Game night was at my house last night. Got three games in: King of New York, Tokaido, and a worker placement euro (named something like iL Toscana): I fared poorly in Tokaido, tieing for last place. But I hung around in King of New York until Phil took himself out plus two others (me and Pat) to leave Pete standing. In the last game of the night, I barely eeked out a victory (by one point) in Toscana.
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Game night: Tokaido and Roll For The Galaxy
Roll For The Galaxy (RftG) and Tokaido made it to the table at Steve’s. Roll For The Galaxy is a newly released game, similar to Race for the Galaxy (which I have never played), and I am really enjoying it. RftG scratches a number of gaming itches: Exploration, Civ building and … Dice! Tokaido is a lightweight but fun game of collecting stuff on a journey to Tokaido (Tokyo). It came out in 2012, but I only recently discovered it. Pretty board. :) I only took one picture for Roll For The Galaxy (too absorbed!)…
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Roll for the Galaxy Board Game
I have never played Race for the Galaxy (the game upon which this one is based), but the new Roll For The Galaxy game was intriguing on it’s own because: I like dice, world building, worker placement and only minor attacking/screwage. I just finished a play with my 16-year old. Easy game to learn, and I enjoyed it (my teen hates all non-video games so his opinion is moot). I didn’t think it was too random as you can mitigate your dice rolls via a “reassign” option as well as by making sure you have a lot of dice to play with. When you explore, you have the option of…
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CooCoo Balancing Clown
Games with the kids tonight- Olivia’s choice was CooCoo; she was thrilled to win by placing last cylinder on CooCoo without causing him to topple!