Board games
For awhile we were playing games quite regularly but then they seemed to become a bit of a burden so we didn’t play very often even though they seemed to be collecting in the house. Games Fanatic has been buying then quite regularly, mostly through Kickstarter campaigns he funds. Anyway, we have started playing again and have tried a couple news ones lately.
Last weekend and this we played a game called Root, which was one of the Kickstarters that has been sitting around for a few months. It’s an interesting game because each player plays in a different way so it takes a while to get through how to play. We spent about three hours last weekend and I was just starting to get my head around what I was doing. So this weekend I played the same role and did better. But it still took longer than the playing time listed. There are expansions with more roles to play which we hope to get to eventually but we need to learn to play all four roles of the base game before we try that. Unfortunately Lego Lover got a bit bored waiting between turns (plus there were other issues that exacerbated the situation) so it’s not likely he will play with us the next time. We’ll have to change to three player rules, whatever that means. I’m hoping it goes well though.
There was another game we played recently called Five Minute Dungeon. The nice thing about it is the short game time. The five minutes isn’t really the length of the game but the rounds you play. We got through a few of those the one time we tried it and it was pretty good.
After we played Root for the first time we were looking through all the board games we have and it is apparent we need to weed out the collection. We have quite a few that have hardly ever been played and aren’t likely to get more play. Some of these are games that were/are popular but we just never got into them all that much. Some of these are old games that don’t interest us. We also have a few oldies to keep due to sentimental reasons, e.g. my first Monopoly game which is missing a couple of deeds and has an almost flattened box. Maybe once we clear out some games we will have more space and be able to organise the collection better.
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Valerie
I am trying to remember whether I have Five Minute Dungeon or One Deck Dungeon. Either way, I bought it most of a year ago, but haven’t yet been able to convince anybody to try playing it. So it sits unused. Sigh. I think I saw it on a list of games that have a good representation of female characters. (My favorite feminist podcast recently did a couple of episodes about tabletop gaming — and they said that a recent study showed that CATS are more commonly represented on the boxes of board games than females. Good grief!) Anyway, I am not sure that you and I have the same game, or just games with similar names, but I am curious what you thought of it.
I hear you about games that get kept for sentimental reasons! We occasionally do a big purge, but there are a few that aren’t ever likely to be weeded out.
Purple Lorikeet
Five Minute Dungeon uses a timer app on Android or iOS if that helps you remember. Although if it’s sitting unused then you might not know that yet. I can’t recall if it has a good representation of characters at the moment but it might. Technically it belongs to Game Fanatic and he would be drawn to games with good female characters. Hmm…I will have to ask him about it or check the box to remind myself. There’s another game similar but with superheros, made by the same company.