I received my two new board games in the mail this morning. Apparently the post van person just knocked on the door and left them on the doorstep. Game Fanatic was on top of them as soon as I opened them and has a bit of an idea of how they work already. I suspect at least one might get a bit of a play tomorrow once we are settled at home for the evening.

Meanwhile, Game Fanatic has ordered four more games from a company here in Australia, one for each member of the family. I think these were all games unavailable at Ozgameshop (or cheaper in Australia). The shipping for all of them only comes out to $7.50, which is pretty cheap for four board games. He gave me a choice of three co-op games that he thought might interest me and I chose Ghost Stories. I don’t recall the other ones but they all seem to be quite different. All are on backorder so it’s hard to tell when they will get sent out.

A few years ago I bought a copy of the Lord of the Rings board game from 2001 from a secondhand shop for about $3. When I checked the pieces, I thought the ring was missing but Game Fanatic pulled it out on Sunday and discovered no pieces were missing. I’m not sure why I didn’t see the ring before as it’s quite visible. I was beginning to think we wouldn’t ever play the game but we did play it Sunday evening, without participation from Lego Lover who refused to play. But we did have a bit of a mishap before we got around to playing the game. Game Fanatic had set out all the pieces on our coffee table during the afternoon and left it there until we played. Our little girl dog, Fluttershy, got hold of a couple of the character pieces and had a bit of a chew on them. One probably can be glued back together but the other appears to have a piece totally missing. We can still glue some of it back, I guess, but GF is really upset about it. This is a game that was in excellent condition when we got it. She also chewed on a couple of wooden place markers but other than the teeth marks they are fine. The game itself went quite well though. It’s another co-op game and requires the use of two two-sided boards, covering four locations. It’s one of those games which really required us to play before we worked out the proper rules so we had some mistakes along the way. Still, we nearly won the game, getting beaten at the very end. It requires a fair bit of sacrifice by players which I think will be interesting as we play it in the future.