Welcome to Dan on his first visit and welcome back Patty

Upcoming theme nights will likely include stock manipulation financial games and a night to honor prolific young Australian game author Phil Walker-Harding (Sushi Go, Cacao, Barenpark, Llama Land, Planted, Summer Camp, Imhotep, Super Lucky Mega Box, Gold & Silver)

Velomino

(led by K-ban) 2020 French single deck climbing/shedding game from Bruno Cathala, consisting of 5 mountain races.

Cahoots

(led by Sandy)  2018 co-op – we won with plenty of cards to spare

Broken & Beautiful

(led by Sean) 2023 open drafting and set collection game. Players draft cards like bowls, cups, and tea jars to create high-scoring sets. As some pieces inevitably break, players must judiciously repair what has been shattered.

Vegetable Stock

(led by K-ban) 2019 single deck card game from Taiwan. A simple 6-round drafting stock market game, where the undrafted last card in each round sets the prices for the 5 Veggie commodities….but when they exceed a value of ‘5’ they crash to zero – ouch!

Oros

(led by Tim) 2022 tile-colliding, volcano erupting, mountain-making, wisdom-gathering, action-economy strategy game. On individual player mats, players move their Followers between action spaces, allowing them to manipulate a shared environment like a giant puzzle of plate tectonics. Action spaces allow players to shift rows of land, move and collide land tiles, form and erupt volcanoes, worship to gain wisdom, journey their Followers around the ever-shifting landscape, and build sacred places of study and worship on mountains. Building sacred places and worshipping in sacred places brings wisdom which is used to improve the abilities available for each action space. Wisdom is also used to improve the end game value of each sacred place built as well as reach other goals worth end game points.

Honey Buzz

(led by Armando) We finally completed our Birds & the Bees plans. This 2020 worker bee placement game has players expanding their personal beehive by drafting various honeycomb tiles granting actions that are triggered throughout the game. Each tile represents a different action. Whenever a tile is laid so that it completes a certain pattern, a ring of actions is triggered in whatever order the player chooses. A tile drafted on turn one could be triggered up to three times at any point during the game. It all depends on how the player places their beeples (bee+meeple) and builds their hive. After all, in the honey business, efficiency is queen.

Lost Ruins of Arnak (led by Sean) 2020 release that combines open drafting and worker placement in a game of exploration, resource management, and discovery. In addition to traditional deck-builder effects, cards can also be used to place workers, and new worker actions become available as players explore the island. Some of these actions require resources instead of workers, so building a solid resource base will be essential. You are limited to only one action per turn, so make your choice carefully… what action will benefit you most now? And what can you afford to do later… assuming someone else doesn’t take the action first!?

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