Played Coup with my friends in different exploring the city

Frosthaven, La Granja, Black Rose Wars, Terraforming Mars, Calico, and the Crimson Scales

Everyone from my group was available this week! So naturally this meant that we went the cinema and watched Barbie! Not quite games night, but a good time nonetheless!

It was also my birthday last week, so the group gifted me a copy of Unmatched: Cobble and Fog which I look forwards to trying with my partner!

We also visited our FLGS and grabbed Exit: The Pharaoh’s Tomb which, aside from one frustrating puzzle, was a good time!

I played a couple of rounds of Kingdomino and Railroad Ink red (without the red dice). I have not tried the red dice yet.

I’ve been on vacation so I’ve finally been able to play some games!!

Turing Machine (6x, 2p) - I pre-ordered Turing Machine as soon as I heard about and was pretty hyped to play it. This game is exactly what I hoped it to be. The logic puzzles are great, I had a ton of fun. I can’t even begin to imagine how much work it took to engineer those punched card so that every puzzle has a single and unique solution. Fantastic work. The game gives a lot of the Shipwreck Arcana vibes, which I love. It feels like a solitary multiplayer game, which not everyone will enjoy. I personally don’t really care, the lack of turn structure makes everything fast and I’m just eager to find the answer. Very nice game, can’t wait to play the harder setups.

Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion (2x, 2p) - We love Viticulture (with the Tuscany expansion) so we had to try the cooperative expansion. We got absolutely destroyed in the introductory mission. Not sure if another year would have done it, to be honest XD We hadn’t played Viticulture in a while so maybe we are a bit rusty but seems like we’re not efficient enough to even beat the tutorial. Since you have 6 years to reach 25 points, getting expensive wine orders in the early game really hurts your chances to win. We need to get better and give it another go!

Menara (2x, 4p) - Menara never lets me down, it’s such an enriching experience. Everyone is super engaged and the game gets really tense in the end.

Ready Set Bet (1x, 5p) - I played as the house and while it was a decently fun experience, I think I’ll just use the app for the next time. The experience was a mixed bag, some people liked it but others weren’t really into it. I suppose not everyone is into betting. I think the game delivers its premise really well, I do wish its components were a bit better tho. The horse board is very small, the game probably assumes you’re always gonna use a tablet.

Had some friends over on Saturday and played a bunch.

Taverns of Tiefenthal is pretty good, although I think noone really had a good grasp of tracking points. We played the base game (module 1) only, looking forward to the advanced modules.

Then we went for a classic round of Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate and got really lucky on the survivor side in terms of both stats and locations. Which is a pretty common thing in this game, I guess.

We ended with a round of Aeon’s End, which started off extremely brutal (the keep was down to 13/30 HP after 3 turns or so), but was fine as we got into the mid and late game.