2026 Session Reports

2/25/2026 – Berkshire Gamers Session Report #26-08

14 at the UNO Park Community Center in North Adams for a request night
Welcome to Stacy, co-owner of the Green Dragon Game Store in Manchester Center VT. Take a ride north on route 7 and visit a very impressive store.

https://greendragon-games.com/

2/25/2026 @ UNO Park Community Center
IN: Steve, Sean, Tim, Zach, Chris, Nicole, Julie, Reimi, Amy, Cady, Carol, Sam & Ruth, Stacy
ON OUR TABLES:
Duck & Cover (led by Sean) 2024 twenty minute family card game in which players are trying to have the least water around their 3×4 bathtub. Players will either duck their duck cards by moving them around their grid or cover their duck cards with other ducks. There are 3 rounds with the object being to get the lowest score and to not have water everywhere. 

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/422019/duck-and-cover

5 X 5 City (led by K-ban) 2024 30-minute city building tile drafting game, where players build various buildings in their city. Each player has a city board of 25 squares representing vacant lots, that are divided into various types of compartments depending on the city planning card selected at the start of the game.

For each of 12 rounds, lots of building tiles are randomly drawn from a bag according to the number of squares in the specified section and drafted in turn order, then placed on the designated section of everyone’s city.

There are 10 types of buildings, each with its own method of scoring, depending on its placement.

Players have the option of turning a drafted building tile to the reverse side, as a park and after placing 3 parks have a single opportunity to swap the position of two building tiles. High score wins.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/264638/5×5-city

Concordia (led by Zach) 2013 peaceful, strategy game of economic development in Roman times. Instead of looking to luck-driven dice or cards, players must rely on their strategic abilities. Watching  rivals to determine which goals they are pursuing and where one can outpace them is essential to victory. In the game, colonists are sent out from Rome to settle down in cities that produce bricks, food, tools, wine, and cloth. Each player starts with an identical set of playing cards and acquires more cards during the game. These cards serve two purposes:
  • They allow a player to choose actions during the game.
  • They are worth victory points (VPs) at the end of the game.

Concordia is a strategy game that requires advanced planning and consideration of your opponent’s moves. Every game is different, not only because of the sequence of new cards on sale but also due to the modular layout of cities.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124361/concordia

Dominion (led by Nicole) 2009 Donald S Vaccarino designed deck-building game, where each player starts with an identical, small deck of cards and attempts to build an efficient engine. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can “buy” as they can afford them. Through their selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most efficient path to victory points by game end. Dominion won the SdJ game of the year award in 2009.
TransAmerica (led by Sean) 2001 game of route building that comfortably handles up to 6, due to lightning quick turns where players attempt to connect their 5 cities before the other players. Next we add the ‘Vexation’ expansion that adds 3 player colored tracks to add to the tension. The sequel was the 2005 Trans Europa edition.
Show Manager (led by K-ban) 2011 Dirk Henn (Alhambra, Metro, Shogun/Wallenstein), design, on being the best Impresario for putting on the best productions of 4 musicals. Open drafting of performers for the roles each musical requires determines the quality of each production. Money management is key.
Trendy (led by K-ban) 2000 Reiner Knizia set collection card game (with a twist , of course) of fashion designer trends that has been re-themed twice (Whale Riders and Crazy Race) but the original is still the best… but out of print (in German). Each turn, players lay a card face up to the table and draw a new card. When as many cards for a designer have been laid face up as the number on that designer’s cards, that designer has a “breakthrough” and players who played that number save those cards for scoring at the end of the hand.  All other played cards are discarded. There are 2 special cards for each designer in the deck:
  • A Super Model is worth 2 cards toward achieving a breakthrough.
  • An OUT card clears all of that designer’s face up cards.
With 5 players, we played 5 hands with everyone dealing once….the alternative is to play until someone scores 100 points.
Steve

14 at the UNO Park Community Center in North Adams for a request night Welcome to Stacy, co-owner of the Green Dragon Game Store in Manchester Center VT. Take a ride north on route 7 and visit a very impressive store. https://greendragon-games.com/ 2/25/2026 @ UNO Park Community Center IN: Steve, Sean, Tim, Zach, Chris, Nicole,…

14 at the UNO Park Community Center in North Adams for a request night Welcome to Stacy, co-owner of the Green Dragon Game Store in Manchester Center VT. Take a ride north on route 7 and visit a very impressive store. https://greendragon-games.com/ 2/25/2026 @ UNO Park Community Center IN: Steve, Sean, Tim, Zach, Chris, Nicole,…

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