Turing Machine is actually the only game on my wish list this year. It’s the perfect match for me as I love solving logical puzzles, work in IT and like to play board games instead of sitting in front of a display all the time. The Steam game Turing Complete was already a dream come true for me.
There is no impact on taxes as long as your Nebenverdienst is not higher than 520€ a month. You also don’t have to pay social security contributions in that case.
I live less than an hour away, so I’d be really lazy not to go there.
I think meeting there with friends is the best incentive for those who live far away.
Not yet. I usually don’t make a list until a few days before it starts. But maybe I won’t prepare anything at all this time.
I’m more focused on playing games for fun now, rather than getting the best deals like I did 5 years ago. The SPIEL is good for trying out games, sometimes even before release, or getting some exclusive bonus expansions, but not so much for getting cheap prices anymore.
Besides, I don’t want to add to my huge collection until I have more time to play games. So this time I may just go unprepared and see what looks interesting.
I completely agree. Both of the problems you mention are solved in Jaws of the Lion, so I would recommend any newbie to start with that.
Thanks for elaborating. I’m just generally curious what is being played in other countries. As a German, I always played lots of board games and I for myself prefer complex Euro games.
It’s interesting that you distinguish between those café types since here in Germany, there is no such distinction. I only know boardgame cafés.
Sounds cool. What kinds of board games are played there? Classic card games, modern strategic Euro games, party games or any of those?
I totally get what you mean by lower entry barrier. In the end, that’s also by design for LCGs. But the completionist in me looks at the price tag for the whole collection in horror (no pun intended). Maybe after what you wrote I still give it another try, so thanks for sharing your experience.
When you play SI for the first time on TTS, I highly recommend playing with someone who knows the game already. Scripts in TTS are nice and all, but it’s even harder to understand how everything works when they are doing stuff so fast that you cannot follow.
I played Spirit Island for the first time on Tabletop Simulator and it felt kinda cluttered and too hard to anticipate what happens next. But playing it at a real table with all the little pieces was completely different. We played many times with 4 players since and added the expansions only after a while. The base game is completely fine in my opinion and doesn’t feel incomplete.
I didn’t really get into AH LCG. I only played it in TTS and felt like I had little control over the game. There were so many random elements that could affect all subsequent games that we abandoned it in frustration. And isn’t the price much higher with all the campaigns than SI?
That’s a nice collection you got there. Many classics and a quite heavy game like Root.
And despite it’s simplicity, ‘6 Nimmt’ is also great, especially with higher player counts.
Maybe a little bit too easy for your 12 yo, but still worth a try:
Stuffed Fables is a coop adventure game for kids where you have to make decisions together and talk about your feelings
Zombie Teenz Evolution is an easy and fast legacy coop game where more rules and mechanics are slowly added over time
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