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!

Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but this opens in Hackney at the weekend

http://dalstonist.co.uk/londons-first-board-game-cafe-opens-hackney-weekend/

Played 'Power Grid' for the first time last night. Really enjoyed it, even though the tactics and choices can be difficult as you weigh up all the possible consequences, both for you and other players, of going for that efficient but effective coal plant when everyone else is wanting coal. When we finished, my head was buzzing as I found myself thinking about each choice in the game going back to the start and how it affected the result.

It's very well-balanced, so there are benefits in being behind, such as first dibs on fuel types. One I definitely want to play again.

I think I took it to the cottage one year, but noone played it.

Green Bay Packers have wood, want sheep.

See, I looked at it and thought that it looked briefly entertaining, but mostly just a really dull game with some funny cartoons drawn on it.

Happiness is fleeting. I am the Leveller, guiding you back to a natural state of misery.