I think Russell may have this, but we only tried playing when I was really, really ill, so was not a success as I could barely remember my name, let alone why everything was sideways.

Ultimately, I don't think it looks that complicated once you get the hang of it, but I think it's probably easier to learn the rules if the person explaining the game doesn't keep singing/dancing as they are doing it. You might not have this problem, though.

Been through the whole d-ner, d-ner, d-ner roooound, done each step, done each step, done each step pchooooooowwww Bdum, bdum, bdum? OK. Oh, you forgot that Eddard Eddard Eddark Starky warky wowowow wwwwww bum chicka, bum chick has re, re, re, re-known so should have collected an extra PO-WEEEEEERRRRRR token. Humble Humble, noisy humble mumble. Did you get all that?

Also the train/car noises any time you move a game piece around a board. It doesn't matter if the game has any cars or trains, or even any game pieces. Make sure it screeches as it goes around those corners, though.

That sort of behaviour will not be tolerated at the Ticket to Ride World Championships 2015.

Nor would not wearing whites, too.

Also the train/car noises any time you move a game piece around a board. It doesn't matter if the game has any cars or trains, or even any game pieces. Make sure it screeches as it goes around those corners, though.

Nor would not wearing whites, too.

I like Grim...'s house rule that each monster in 'King of Tokyo' has to be announced in the X-Factor Voice.

Ahem, the 2015 have already taken place, and there was a victor!

Is that a Pandemic expansion?

Is that a Pandemic expansion?

Yeah, Pandemic On the Brink. Introduces the option of a fifth player, who plays against the team trying to spread a new more virulent disease with secret movements they track on a pad. Also introduces the more virulent disease and increased numbers of bad cards, petrie dishes for the disease cubes and some new roles and events.

Good lord, it doesn't need making harder!

is the name of my sex tape

Your sex tape is called ?

Thanks for the tip. Treated myself to the India map for 'Ticket to Ride'.

Arghhh...must...resist...

You keep on giving me bad ideas too.

What's 'Dead of Winter' like for repeated plays? I saw it on 'Tabletop' (a show I still can't decide if I like or not - much depends on the game itself and the guests they've got on) and it looked really interesting.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/zombicide-black-plague
The new Zombicide has just launched on kickstarter and in less than a day has blasted through all stretch goals announced so far and raised 3/4 million. I've been waiting for the kickstarter to launch but hadn't 100% decided i'd back it then I saw the new player boards and was sold. I love Zombicide anyway so that's fine. (I can't believe I talked myself out of spending £20 on a ticket to ride expansion earlier only to drop $150 on this. But look at those custom black dice! And the special tiles! And the plastic player boards! And all the minis!)

Was looking again at 'Dead of Winter' on a rainforesty-site, and my finger slipped. Oops

Star Realms is a good deckbuilding game, and there's a mobile game version of it now, of which a good chunk is free.

You can get it on iOS and Android, and if you pay the £2 to unlock the whole thing, my username is Grimddd.

Are we missing something with Pandemic? We only lost our first game because we ran out player cards the turn before we would have cured the last disease and even though some unfortunate card turns sent our outbreak counter straight up to 5, we still won the second game comfortably enough.

We bought the Sherlick a Holmes game on Gilly's recommendation. Haven't played yet but looking forwards to sleuthing

Joan's bought that last week. We've only played one case so far, but it took a couple of evenings.

Back in Wales for the weekend so did some board gaming. Played Forbidden Island with my sister and brother-in-law; we smashed it to pieces. Bought King Of New York and had our first game of that with The Egg and Mrs The Eg; thought that was great. Then played a round of Forbidden Island with TE and MTE but lost it on (quite literally) a single card turn – we pretended it hadn't happened and played the game out to victory to check. That game is cruel, although far less brutal than Pandemic.