Portal game in development - WANT!

Saw a great comment about that on shut up and sit down. Someone moaned about the presence of cake in the game and said that meme was becoming tiresome. Someone else replied they'd love it if all the marketing material showed cake, the rules mentioned cake but the game came without cake. All letters to the publisher querying this could result in a letter with a five word response...

I got the Grimlet the Batman "Escape from Arkham City" game for his birthday, so I get to play that next week.

Once.

Before I we go back to playing Conquest of Planet Earth.

In other board game news, I get a feeling I'd love Zombieside, but it's so damned expensive. Is it worth the £60, SDG?

Hmmph. Well, I'd characterise it as a cri du coeur rather than a moan, BUT YOU KNOW.

What's conquest of planet earth like?

But yes, BeexMeet in Oxford. If ever you are passing through, drop me a line for beer or board games (or both, they just got their licence). Greatest city in the world. Crash space at New Kern Hall.

You have my sword.

Dice Duel is the shoutiest game in the world. I don't mean this as a negative.

I love the shit out of it.

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That was the incredibly simple game that made no sense at all, wasn't it?

To one of us, certainly - I forget who that was, though.

I think it was the person who was making such a hash of explaining the rules.

I'm not sure how many different ways I could say "You move and then you fight".

I'm not sure how many different ways I could say "You move and then you fight".

Oh, yeah, there are these tokens too, I didn't tell you about those...

Wrong game.

Which is the one that you said was really simple, but then confused everyone by leaving out half the rules, and then the game ended quite abruptly when someone left a ton of tokens unguarded and Zeppo just went and took them without a fight, one turn before I was going to do so?

New games this week! Hive pocket, bought for taking on holiday with us next month. Anyone got any other good recommendations for games that travel well and would be suitable for playing on a hotel balcony?

Talking of things that pack an awful lot of game into a very small package, my wife and I played Love Letter for like 4 hours straight while we were in the maternity ward waiting for them to decide if they were going to induce her or not and it made the time fly by. It's incredibly simple - you have a one-card hand, each turn you draw a card and play a card and at the end of each round whoever's got the highest-numbered card wins, first to X many rounds wins the game. The game's all in the card abilities - so, playing a Guard lets you try and guess what's in another player's hand. Get it right, and they're out of the round. That's tough if it's a shot in the dark, but it's considerably easier if you played a Priest the previous round that lets you look at your opponent's hand. Aha, but obviously they knew that you knew they were Baron, so on their turn they played it allowing them to compare their hand with yours and knock out whoever had the lower value card AND SO ON. It's a lovely little bluffing and deduction game, it's less than £8, you can literally fit it in your pocket and we easily managed to play it on a 12-by-18 inch NHS rolly bed-table thing. It's great.

I've got it on pre-order. I'll have to check that interview out, cheers!

So I called into a department store to get some photo frames, and saw they had 'King of Tokyo' for sale! Been after it for ages so happily bought it.

Will defo be watching for the reprint of skulls and roses as well, if you see it on sale try and give me a wee prod to remind me if possible!