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Love this game. I have the older Carthage version. Surprisingly fun at 2p.

Trump The lives of courageous American heroes) may be lost. That often happens in war Lord Farqaad Some of you may die. But it's a sacrifice lam willing to make.

A bloodhound stares into the camera

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

We played Take 5 (6 Nimmt) and Come Sail Away.

Cabana is a great starting point.

So glad the US hockey teams got to play our Canadian friends in the medal rounds. We love our spornt neighbors.

Sorry I can’t see it.

A Dark-Eyed Junco looks askance at the camera. His lower 1/3 is whitish. His dirty yellow beak contrasts with his dark upper feathers. Behind him are bare branches and snowflakes.

Look at this boi

I use a 1960s era map of the Apollo 11 moon landing in one of my classes. It’s superimposed over a baseball infield for scale, bc back then baseball was America’s Spornt.

whups

I tend to use the phrase purely in regards to rules fluency. Like you, I think of these as two entirely separate concepts. I have plenty of games with relatively simple rules, but deep layers of strategy. I don’t really have a term for the second concept.

Congrats, this is great. The prints really capture these games, too.

Does having Safety Dance stuck in my head for a week count as living a musical life?

Not that wrinkly!

Ugh, I feel for you. I had bad memory/focus problems a while back and couldn’t even set up a game from the diagram in the rule book. Terrifying, felt like a trapped animal.

Pax Pamir 2E. Amazingly complex interactions for such a simple, thematically accessible set of rules.

It’s a rational approach to the world. If you haven’t been here before, why assume you know what’s going on?
We have all dealt w the opposite, people who “got it” before we’ve finished our sentence. I do sometimes envy their easy confident simplicity.

The Pitt

I found In Vino Morte in a jacket pocket at a wedding. I’d put it in there at another wedding years previously. Looking for my copy of Handsome now.

Old timey looking map of Manassas battlefield overlaid with a hex pattern

Manassas by Rick Britton

This can’t be overstated. Daybreak feels amazing while having a meaningful message because it’s a uncompromisingly a satisfying game first

Votes for Women fits this category too

You can make values-forward games without being cringe. It’s incredibly hard, and the successful ones deserve HUGE props

Started off our snowed- & iced-in mini holiday wearing my antique “games captain” badge and acting as game sommelier for the neighbor friends. Soda Jerk, Ready Set Bet and the new edition of Love Letter, which was a blast at 6p. Discussed how the multiple-rounds mechanism helps mitigate randomness.

Oooh, count me in! Such an interesting institution & period. Lots of threads to explore.

+1 for games, dice, cards, etc. We humans love our games.

All day long I’d shiddy shiddy shum

But the unexpressed preferences to resentment arc makes for such good sitcom plots!

Dr’s office has a room labeled IT ROOM and I’ll be bringing a lil clown sticker next time I visit. C’mon, people.

Congratulations! Week deserved, this game is a delight.

Sounds like Undergrove by @elizhargrave.bsky.social

Picked this up for family Xmas games & we’ve played it 8 times today, discovering more evil tactics with each play. Thanks for the recommendation!