I’m generally falling out of love with expansions. It makes sense in games where it expands the game, so another player can join (i.e. Exploding kittens/imploding kittens) but other than that I’d rather buy a new game than expand one I already know.

I need to stop reading this thread. Every week I want to buy a different game. Earth looks beautiful!

I’m still seriously in love with Cascadia. It has so much replayability due to the changing scoring mechanic.

It was just too slow of a game for the occasion. We’ve all had a couple of beers and explaining the game to one of the four, while reminding the other 3 how to play and also having played a very active/loud game before, was just a bit of a buzzkill. I realized that when the others had a hard time following what was happening and who’s turn it was and so on. Just a bad pick for the night I guess.

Tow classics in our round of 5 players on Saturday night:

5-minute Dungeon: Utter chaos. But extremely cathartic with 5 lads who just watched their favorite football club lose 4:0.

Ticket to Ride: Europe: A classic. We’ve played it before with 4 out of the 5 players attending and had a lot of fun. But it was completely the wrong game for the occasion this time. I guess reading the room/group is an important part of picking the right game.

I was on vacation with my partner last week and we packed the card game version of Café International

The board game version is from 1989 and I was extremely nostalgic about the game, as it was one that I used to play a lot when I visited my grandparents back when I was a young kid.

After playing two round of it we realized: This is and OLD game, and it shows. Even the card game version from 2001 shows it’s age in both the ridiculous artwork as well as the game mechanics like drawing/discarding cards for minutes without any change to the board state.

We chose to leave it in the hotel lobby. Maybe it will bring joy to someone there, it brought no joy to us other than a short flash of nostalgia, so we decided we’ll never play it again.

First 4 player round of Viticulture. A bit to complex for my friends to enjoy it first try, but they want me to bring it again next time we meet.

We tend to play most things only once since everybody is so eager to show off their latest catch. I guess I contributed to that by bringing Cascadia last time and Viticulture this time.

Maybe I should stop that …