Next session (5/11) is a request and new games evening.

Email your requests to Steve or Sean.

5/18 will feature Pirate themed games. Our table leaders are preparing a special curated session for all.

Re-cap written by Sean Kelly:

8 at Purple Dragon Games on May 4th to reprise our Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jarhes nominees and winners.

Our crew of regulars invited 2 folks who stopped in at Purple Dragon Games towards the end of the evening looking to play a game to join our merry band, and introduced them to a few new games (Codenames: Pictures and Kingdomino). Welcome to Will and Victoria!

IN: Sean, Wendy, Tim, Rob, Emily, Amy, Will, Victoria

Dixit

 (led by Sean) – 

2010 Spiel des Jahres Winner

 – In this party game of surrealist mini-masterpieces printed on big tarot sized cards, each turn one player is the storyteller. This player secretly chooses one card in his hand, then gives a word or sentence to describe this card—but not too obviously. Each other player chooses a card in hand that matches this word/sentence and gives it to the storyteller. The storyteller then lays out the cards, and all other players vote on which card belongs to the storyteller.

7 Wonders

 (led by Sean) – 

2011 Kennerspiel des Jahres Winner

 – You are the leader of one of the 7 great cities of the Ancient World. Gather resources, develop commercial routes, and affirm your military supremacy. Build your city and erect an architectural wonder which will transcend future times. 

The Quacks of Quedlinburg

 (led by Sean) – 

2018 Kennerspiel des Jahres Winner

 – Players are charlatans — or quack doctors — each making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Take care with what you add, though, for a pinch too much of this or that will spoil the whole mixture! Players simultaneously draw chips from their bags of ingredients and add them to their pots. The higher the face value of the drawn chip, the further it is placed in the pot’s swirling pattern, increasing how much the potion will be worth. Push your luck as far as you can, but if you add too many cherry bombs, your pot will explode!

Codenames: Pictures

 (x2 plays, led by Sean) – What are these strange symbols on the map? They are code for locations where spies must contact secret agents! Two rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling their field operatives where to go for clandestine meetings. Operatives must be clever. A decoding mistake could lead to an unpleasant encounter with an enemy agent – or worse, with the assassin! Both teams race to contact all their agents, but only one team can win. A reimplementation of the  

2016 Spiel des Jahres Winner

 Codenames. Pictures on cards actually seemed to make the game harder than the original with words on cards.

Kingdomino

 (led by Tim) – 

2017 Spiel des Jahres Winner

 – You are a lord seeking new lands in which to expand your kingdom. You must explore all the lands, including wheat fields, lakes, and mountains, in order to spot the best plots, while competing with other lords to acquire them first. The game uses tiles with two sections, similar to Dominoes. Each turn, players select a new domino to connect to their existing kingdom, making sure at least one of its sides connects to a matching terrain type already in play, until each player has completed a 5×5 grid (or failed to do so), and points are counted.

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