The Statistical Board Gamer
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The Statistical Board Gamer Mom.🩵🩵 Wife❤️ Math/Statistics Teacher. I love sports. https://malacheye1214.wixsite.com/the-statistical-boar
Omg Entropy. What a great game. My current favorite game being SETI, this game gave me similar vibes with the chaining and action building. So many different ways to play and paths to victory. After we finished my entire group said "yup, playing that again next game night" Great fun!
Played A Wild Venture 2 handed and it's a neat little engine builder. There is an official solo mode that was made after and out into a second print run that I'm gunna try out next.
My next venture (some me call it wild) thru my shelf of opportunity! A Wild Venture
Played AI Gaudi and lost 218 to 205. Really needed one more turn and made some silly mistakes which led to my demise. Not a looker but Barcelona is fun! A keep for now.
Well Barcelona is not a looker. It Looks super boring. But oh man it is not. Point salad goodness, great action selection, many paths to victory, feels fairly replayable. Played a 2 handed learning set up for solo for Thursday. Fun so far!
Well THAT is much better! 87-67 win! Let's go! Apiary
Solo play of Apiary and totally lost but made some super rookie mistakes. Didn't really understand how the game was going to go until all of a sudden it ramped and ended. Then saw the end game scoring and had an "ohhh I get it now" moment. Pretty short game. Set up to go again!
Now that I'm back in the working routine, trying to get back to some solo gaming at night. Just set up for some solo space bees! Apiary
Revive with Call to the Abyss expansion Chefs kiss so good! I won with 105!
What do my classes do on the first day of classes? Why play Flip 7 of course! Shout out to The Op for donation of a class set!
3 player Galileo Gallilei and 3 player Pocket Wingspan GG is great and man I feel like there is a lot of replayability there. Wingspan Pocket is cute and enjoyable...and I'm not really a wingspan fan.
New arrivals...tackling 20 Strong Cloudspire first!
Little solo gaming time for Mom while the boys are at the playground with Dad Awaken the Ancients And Wayfarers of the South Tigris on BGA
Heard some mixed reviews on this one BUT I got it for a great price and I love White Castle. I've heard the negatives are there aren't enough turns so CHALLENGE ACCEPTED Covenant
7th Inning Stretch on the beautiful stitched mat. Having a blast narrating this game in my basement. Forgot about adjustments and lost miserable at first, then I played on Rookie with a hitting coach which is too easy but I had fun! I think the sweet spot is just HOF with a hitting coach. 8/10
Saltfjord is a nice little puzzle that I still stink at. I did finally score 117 pts and on advanced mode with the wagons, that's a victory but no medal. The 3d insert is mandatory if only to hold the pieces in place on the board So far I'll keep it 7/10
Shout out to BSGgames.ca for the donation of two more games to the cause. Look forward to testing these out in the first few days of school next year Mathematicians Duel and Sinoda
Storybook Saga Another Gabe Barrett SGOTM. I late backed this one but as with Small Time Heroes, super glad I did. Gives me 7th Inning Stretch vibes (which I still love because I'm a huge baseball fan) but it's definitely different enough. First impressions: 7.5/10 looking forward to playing more
Getting another off my Shelf of Opportunity!
Overall Aquaria is a nice, fun little puzzle. Tomas Holek made another keeper for me. It's no SETI but I enjoyed it. Played 2 handed and then the solo mode. Hope someone will be an unofficial bot because it's essentially BYOS. But still fun
2 handed play of Aquaria and it was a lot of fun! Look forward to trying it solo Not as good as SETI right now but still pretty fun!
Played Darwin's Journey Solo on BGA and that's the first time I've maxed out the theory of evolution track. 80 points from it because I couldn't get that final row complete. 180-140 victory!
Can Tomas Holek do it again? SETI is my new #1 game of all time so when I saw Aquaria for a great price, I had to go for it. Excited for my first play!
Darwin's Journey with Fireland. Although not an essential expansion, it was definitely a lot of fun and for someone such as myself who plans on playing it a lot, adds nice variability
Great month of gaming featuring a return to solo plays, a local board game convention, and some more games off the Shelf of Opportunity. Big hits for me: Rebel Princess! What an awesome little trick taker. Darwin's Journey has turned into one of my top 5 games of all time, and Revive is perfect.
Darwin's Journey is rapidly running up my top games list. First solo play and I won. Playing with Fireland Wednesday night!
Day 2 of our local con featured more socializing but still got in Isle of Cats and Viscounts of the West Kingdom! Others played: Ark Nova, Fire Tower, Calico, Rebel Princess
First day of our first ever BG Con with my local group! Lots of fun! Played Fliptoons x 2, Rebel Princess x 2, Spirited, Etherstone, and Skull
