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Category Archives: Board Games
Not this Newcastle Gamers, but the one before… (13th April)
Argh! … after a year and a half of dutifully blogging my trips to Newcastle Gamers, I finally let one slip. My excuse: a crazy-busy couple of weeks, much of which was spent in the pursuit of a cool new … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Newcastle Gamers
Tagged brazil, carparking fail, cornucopia, dominion, hanabi, keyflower, king of tokyo, power grid
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Newcastle Gamers – 30th March – Tabletop Day
(photo: Steven Hesse / @Geek_Apocalypse) Saturday was Newcastle Gamers day… and, to co-incide with International Tabletop Day, we’d decided to have an all-day gaming session at our usual haunt. To be honest it doesn’t take an awful lot of goading … Continue reading
Tabletop Day
Next Saturday (the 30th March) has been declared International Tabletop Day… a day to turn off your TV, put aside your videogames, and to go and play some real-world, face-to-face tabletop games with friends, family, or anybody else who you … Continue reading
Posted in Board Game Geek, Board Games, Gaming, Newcastle Gamers
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Newcastle Gamers – 9th March
Mental experiment time: Imagine you took the tile laying of Carcassonne, the worker placement of Le Havre, The pick-up-and-deliver / routebuilding of Steam, an auctioning system so odd-yet-devilishly-clever that it seems like it should’ve come straight out of a Reiner … Continue reading
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Tagged keyflower, me ... with a sword.. in a wood?, myrmes, roborally, tsuro
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Newcastle Gamers, 9th February
The power of the written word is indeed mighty! So mighty, in fact, that when I recently wrote that I still hadn’t managed to play the hot-new-thing-of-this-time-last-year — Eclipse — Olly promptly offered to fix that for me at the … Continue reading
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Tagged airships, amyitis, eclipse, exterminate! exterminate!, hanabi, survive: escape from atlantis
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