Category Archives: Board Games

Thing of the week: Agricola, All Creatures Big And Small

This week, I got a copy of the new Uwe Rosenberg game, “Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small”. It’s a new 2-player spin-off from “Agricola”, which is pretty much my favourite board game of all time. It’s a neat game, … Continue reading →

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Newcastle Gamers – 28th April

(Another catch-up post… this meeting was nearly 3 weeks ago…) Games played this time: Power Grid It was good to play this again (I actually picked up a copy of this for myself earlier in the year, but it’s mostly … Continue reading →

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Thing of the week: Maths Trades

I concluded my first ever Maths Trade this week. “Maths Trade?…” Well, basically, a Maths Trade works like this: A group of people make a big list of stuff that they would all like to get rid of (in this … Continue reading →

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Newcastle Gamers, 14th April

Attendance figures seemed back up to normal, with 6 or 7 games running simultaneously during the busiest stretch. Here’s the customary round-up of things I played this time: Meridian A fairly dry area-control/abstract game, with a paper-thin theme pasted onto … Continue reading →

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Newcastle Gamers – 31st March

Quite a long gap since the last Newcastle Gamers meeting, due to March 2012 having too many Saturdays in it (boo!)… and despite the 3-week break there seemed to be a smaller-than-normal turn-out, with quite a few regulars missing. Maybe … Continue reading →

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