Writing retreat, Santa Fe. Writers do not live by writing alone. I was VERY tired by Saturday, after several days of intense writing. Sometimes you have to take a break to walk around a little, play a board game, clear your head. I taught Alex Dragoon! Fun game where you are a dragon, rampaging your […]
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Writing retreat, Santa Fe. Yesterday, Susan and Alex came by for dinner and board games after a day of writing. Susan brought me green chili cornbread and green chili mustard which was so delicious, I could not stop eating it. I’m taking the rest of the jar home for Kevin; I think green chili mustard
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There was, of course, game playing at Jed‘s — he introduced me to Seven Wonders: Architects and Mandala Stones, both fun, fast games, and quick to teach. I like that they can both be played pretty casually in 20-30 minutes; it’s nice to have that kind of game around for people who aren’t hard-core board
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Christa and Alex‘s kids, playing the other game I brought them. Jaipur was a *little* challenging for 6-year-old Kai, but 8-year-old Belle got it down FAST, and apparently beat her dad in the second game. It’s a fun, fast card game, where you’re trading spices, gemstones, gold and silver, and something green, which I can’t
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Little one-minute Acron video from yesterday — Jed is a VR tree, Anand is a squirrel on his iPad stealing acorns from the tree. I need to take some video of Anand as tree at some point, as he’s much more active than Jed (or I). It’s funny.
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Played a fun new game with Jed yesterday. Made me want to go watch a Three Musketeers movie. Mousquetaires du Roy (https://boardgamegeek.com/boar…/78954/mousquetaires-du-roy). (Published in 2010.)
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With Jed visiting (he arrived Friday, yay!), I finally had a chance to play a game I was gifted for my birthday, The Captain is Dead! It’s a fun cooperative game, Kavi joined in too, and although we got completely destroyed the first time we played, we didn’t really understand all the gameplay at that
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First time post-pandemic. Just four of us, which was pretty perfect, actually. A couple of us knew Photosynthesis, so we taught that, and then a few people who knew Everdell taught the two of us who didn’t. Both great games, so nice to hang out with people and be normal again.
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Another little game from Jed’s — Enchanted Plumes. You play feather cards to build peacock plumes. Simple, quick to play, v. pretty. He sent me home with a copy and Kavi and I played yesterday, had fun!
Here’s another game, and this one’s for the knitters out there — ArchRavels. Fun casual game of pattern building and set collection, where you gather yarn and knit projects for points — it takes about 30 minutes to play with 2 people; it goes up to 4 players. Jed beat me, but just barely. I
