Board Game Auction Results Learn to Play Modern Board Kingdomino Review Learn how it all turned out: Games Learn more about this auction: Roz for running the games back and forth between the • Hounded (Iron Druid series) by Kevin Hearne (Erik) same basic gameplay as the original. We’ve played most of window when you get stuck. Meet Objectives to earn richest kingdom lled with waving elds of grain; rich, • 2017 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nomi- • Dixit - 6+ Games for Fun & Interactive Gatherings • Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on Our Favorite can pass if you want. jealousy inducing deals, This month we’re teach- light, fun and puzzly • El Gaucho - Round ’em Up and Move ’em Out! • Archipelago and solo expansion $45 Gate Room, where the games were on display, and the • Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Jonathan) them, including: Europe, Nordic Countries, USA 1910, points and win! Every game o ers new challenges. dark forests; sparkling lakes; green pastures; a bit of nee the Cursed Island - A Cooperative 3rd Round, you can’t say any how Tim lost geek cred, ing the Ticket to Ride tile-placement game... • Fiery Dragons - 10 Games for Kids Party Game • Castles of Mad King Ludwig $30 Drgaon Room, where the auction was held. ank you so • Neuromancer by William Gibson (Tim) Rails & Sails, Asia, India, Heart of Africa, Nederlands, and at’s the Learn to Play lineup for May. marsh-land for that homey plu mud smell; towering • 2017 Gouden Ludo Best Family Game Winner Game Filled with Euro Game words at all. Just act it out! Your what sellers bought series and a variety of • Firefly: The Game - A Shiny • Kingdom Builder $17 much Roz, Liz and Diane for pulling games while I made * Note: you have to be attending meetings for your book U.K. & Pennsylvania. So let us teach you how to play mountains rich with ore; and golden crowns sprinkled • 2017 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee Goodness Tim and I used to play a teammates get one guess and you after... puzzly games... Page 3 up the invoices and credit slips. e auction’s success was selection to be eligible as the next reading choice. Ticket to Ride! Game Set in the ’Verse • Robo Rally Reboot - e Classic Pages 1-2 Page 4 • Kingsburg and To Forge A Realm Expansion $45 We Played Games All Day throughout to prove your abundance - and earn you loads Tim and I really like Kingdomino. It's light, fun, easy to lot of party games... and can pass on cards you don’t want a team e ort. With your kind help, it all went quite • Five Tribes - Journey to the Programmed-Movement Robot- • Mansions of Madness $20 A full list of all the books we’ve already read in Book Club Saturday, May 26 Learn to Play Puzzly Games of points. You score points for each contiguous terrain: teach and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's not all u and Did you know that Tina’s been writing game reviews for cards when we lived in San to waste time on. smoothly. & All Night to Celebrate World of the Arabian Nights Racing Game Gets an Update! • Small World $17 is available on our web site at: number of tiles times the number of crowns in that area. pretty pieces either. You have to make some hard choices. this newsletter since it launched in April 2013? After she Diego. at’s before we Azul is a beautiful puzzly • Flash! - A Real-Time Dice Game • Roll For It! - 4 Small Dice Games At the end of the rst round, after all • Snow Tails $32 We’re considering making this a quarterly event with the TableTop Day! Add 'em all up and that's your score. Highest score wins. Of course you want the dominoes with the crowns on had about 40 under her belt, she started her own blog: were introduced to Here Be Books & Games hbbng.biz/book-club/ game of tile laying for 2-4 The Glass Meeple (theglassmeeple.com). for the Whole Family • Scotland Yard - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow designer board 40 cards have been guessed, review • Tyrants of the Underdark $25 next Board Game Auction in July. Tell us what you think Saturday, April 28 was International Sounds simple enough, but there are a few caveats: them, they multiply your terrain scores, but the dominoes 810 Travelers Blvd, Ste A2, Summerville, SC 29485 players. Azul invites you, a • Forbidden Desert: irst for Old them with the group to make sure • Wasabi $37 and whether you’d be interested in partcipating. Is quar- So bring some of the Sci Fi & Fantasy books you’ve read TableTop Day, a celebration for all fans of tabletop with the crowns are also the highest valued, meaning you'll Here’s a list of some of the games she’s reviewed: games. You know, (843) 695-1498 Tue & Wed 1 to 7pm, Fri & Sat 11am to 7pm tile-laying artist, to embellish • Your kingdom may not exceed a 5x5 tile grid. Survival - e Sequel to Forbidden Island Provides • Splendor - Splendidly Addicting everyone knows who each person is • Willow $5 terly too often? Would just twice a year be better? Let us recently, bring yourself, and be prepared for loads of geeky gaming - a single day where the whole world is brought usually get last pick or next to last pick in the next round modern board games talk 6:00 pm, Friday, May 11 at Here Be Books & the walls of the Royal Palace of together in the common purpose of having fun playing • When placing a domino, at least one end must • 6 nimmt! - A Deceptively Simple Card Game New Mechanics and Challenges to Slake Your irst • Stone Age - A Classic Worker Placement like Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Castles of Burgundy and a before playing Round 2. Yes, there’s a Board game store & gaming salon. We'll teach you how to play! e bidding was fun and lively with lots of good volleys know. when something even better might turn up. Games! Evora. Take turns drafting games together, face-to-face. Every year since its inception connect to a matching terrain tile. Your starting • 6 nimmt! Junior - 10 Games for Kids for Adventure Game slew of others that have the names of the designers written memory component to the game, too! on many items. Several buyers took home stacks of games Issue 60 May 2018 colored tiles from factories to in 2013, we at Here Be Books & Games have hosted a Castle Tile is considered wild. Another thing I like about Kingdomino is that it scales well • Acquire 2016 - A 3D Plastic Reprint of • Get Bit! - 10 Games for Kids • Sushi Go! - A Fresh, Light Quick Snack on the cover like the author of a book. It’s important to listen to and, particu- like Adam Dintleman Learn to Play Board your player board. Score points based on how you place FREE TableTop Day celebration, and this year was no • The turn order each round is determined by who for di erent types of gamers: you can use the variants or the Classic Stock Market Game • Glass Road - Lighter Strategy Fare by Agricola’s • Ticket to Ride - 7 Classic Games at larly, to watch what clues the other seen here with his $120 Despite its debut in 1999, we didn’t discover Time’s Up! Kingdomino Play Day Games - Anytime - at your tiles to decorate the palace. Earn extra points for exception. chose the least not, it's up to you. When playing with young kids, you might want to keep it simple, leaving out the Harmony and • Agricola Revised Edition - How it Designer Never Grow Old teams are giving so you can use them, Save the Date! haul and Liz Yanzer until September 2010 at at Board Game ing in speci c patterns and sets; wasted tiles harm your score. valuable Middle Kingdom rules. With seasoned adults, you can throw in both scoring bonuses for a more challenging game. e Compares to the Original • Grand Austria Hotel - A Dice • Time’s Up! - Our Favorite Party Game too! Saturday, May 19 1pm to 7pm with some of her great HBB&G! In addition to playing games all day and all night, we gave Raleigh, North Carolina. I should say I discovered it, Saturday, May 5, 2pm to 1am e player with the most points wins. domino in Dynasty variant provides a longer game in which you total the scores of three play-throughs to determine the winner. You • Aton - One of My Favorite Two-Play Selection Euro Game • Tuscany - Expands the World of Viticul- deals shown below. away promos and several games, too. Every attendee ’cause I was the one who played it rst then nally Time’s Up! is hilarious fun. I recom- Kingdomino is a fun, puzzly, tile-placement game the Game Night Anytime we’re open you can learn to the previ- can even combine Kingdomino with Queendomino for still more challenges, but that's a topic for another day. Games • Istanbul - A Lesson in Eciency ture in Myriad Ways Century: Spice Road is a gorgeous received a free promo of their choice and an entry in our convinced Tim and our guests to try it one Game Night mend three teams of three players whole family can play in about 15 minutes. Read the full Sellers made out, too. play a new game at Here Be Books & ous • Bohnanza - Growing Beans for Fun & • Jaipur - Send Your Camels to Trade • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - Time & 3D inking Friday, May 11, 6pm to 8pm fast-paced and addictive game doorprize drawing. Ian McNear, Liz Yanzer, Derrick Kingdomino also plays well with just two players: the rulebook includes a variant in which players build 7x7 tile king- three years later. Tim was hooked then as were a lot of the each or more, but you can play with review later in this newsletter. e three biggest Store Games - or just come in and play! On Pro t • King of New York - Mutant Monsters • Unexploded Cow - Blowing Up Cows for Fun & Book Club Meeting Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting of spice trading and Seabrook, and Ti a Steppe each won their pick of a game doms and have two meeples with which to choose dominoes each round. other gamers who played Time’s Up! that night. as few as 4 players. ere were only Credits we issued were the Saturdays when we’re not holding a special event or • Bohnanza Card Games & Expansions - Rampage New york Pro t We’re hosting a Kingdomino Organized Play Day Saturday, Reading: Revelation Space Friday, May 11, 6pm to 8pm engine building for 2 to 5 from the game table. Mike Wengland won the special I love the bits in Kingdomino: the dominoes are nice and chunky - they're shiny, too. e Castles four of us playing in my rst game of $336, $257, and $222. Game Night, we’ll post at least three games on the sched- round: From Pirates to Fairy Tales • King of Tokyo - A King-of-the-Hill ere isn’t much to the components of Time’s Up! - just a May 19 from 1pm to 7pm. If you don’t know how by Alastair Reynolds players. Each turn you can • Valdora - Gorgeous Medieval- Time’s Up! ule that we’re prepared to teach, usually: Castle Panic Tower 2018 promo and Taylor Rhett won are cute and colorful and who can resist wooden meeples in a new king meeple shape. e box • Bohnanza: Pirates - Bean Trading on the timer; a scorepad; a bunch of double-sided cards featuring to play, we’ll teach you. If you’re already Saturday, May 12, 1pm to 7pm e lowest was $30 for Reading: Revelation Space by Alastair take one of four actions: lowest value goes rst, then Dice Game emed Pickup-and-Deliver the special Sagrada TableTop Day Window promo. also has a really nice insert to keep everything organized - always a plus in my book. High Seas the names of over 1000 famous people, both ctional and If you prefer guess- familiar with the game, this is your chance to play King- Learn to Play Ticket to Ride just one game. Reynolds (Zach’s pick) 1. An easy-to-learn and quick-playing casual game. 1) Take a Market card into second lowest, etc. Each domino • Kingdomino - A Puzzly Tile-Placement Game for the Game with Books ank you to everyone who came in and played games on has a number on its back to is year Blue Orange is releasing a giant-sized Kingdomino for retail. Kingdomino: • BraveRats, aka R - 10 Games for Kids Whole Family real; and a rulebook with a glossary that tells you who all ing the titles of domino and pick up some really cool Kingdomino promos any game or expansion we have Happy seller Michael e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets your hand for its create, trade • Vegas Showdown - A Classic 2. A medium-level game. TableTop Day. A good time was had by all. It was a fun guide you during setup at the Giant Version was originally created for retailers to use for in-store demos only, but when • Can't Stop - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow Old • La Granja: No Siesta! - e Lighter, Dicier Cousin those people are in case you don’t recognize some of them. books, movies, including: Dark Castle, Ice Castle, Princess Castle, Sand Castle Saturday, May 19, 1pm to 7pm Wengland posted on once a month at Here Be Books & or upgrade ability; 2) Play a card from your hand to Bidding Game of Casino Build- 3. A more complex strategy game. day. beginning of each round. customers clamored for a chance to buy it for themselves, • Carcassonne - e Classic Tile-laying • Las Vegas - Why Didn’t I ink of at? You probably won’t know who some of them are. I sadly television shows, and a Tile Tower. Admission is FREE. Kingdomino Play Day Facebook, “I earned Games. We read fantasy and science create, trade or upgrade spices; 3) Ful ll an Order card; 4) ing • One of Kingdomino's variants, Middle Kingdom, Blue Orange decided to produce more for retail. Each domino in Board Game Gets a New Look • Las Vegas: Boulevard - A 12-Module Expansion for know who more of the ctional people are than the real songs, albums, plays, Free Promos for Participants! $217.00 from their ction, old and new, including urban If you want to learn one of the scheduled games or Rest, taking all your cards back into your hand. e game Kingdomino - A • Viticulture - A Game of Growing requires you to make your Castle the center of your the Giant Version measures 3.12" x 6.25", the Castles rise a little over 3" • Carcassonne: Hills & Sheep Expansion - Las Vegas Grapes and Making Wine ones. musicals, paintings, Saturday, May 26, 1pm to 7pm auction!! Amazing!! Wasn't expecting that!! anks all!!” fantasy and alternate history. Attending something else, just drop by and we’ll teach you how to ends at the end of the round in which a player completes Puzzly Tile- kingdom: awarding you 10 points if you succeed. high, and the wooden King Meeples are 2" tall! You'll de nitely want e Hills Are Alive with the Sound of • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game - Experience • Wits & Wagers - 6+ Fun & Inter- and sculptures Learn to Play Puzzly Games Mike’s already put some of his take to good use on Blood members each suggest a book to add to play! You’re also welcome to come by and play games a speci c number of Orders - depends on player count. To setup the game, divide into teams, pull 40 cards out of • In the Harmony variant you can earn 5 points for a bigger table to play this Great Dane-sized puppy. For comparison: dominoes Baaa-ing and Tie-breaking the Horror of a Zombie Apocalypse instead of people, Azul, Century: Spice Road, Rage, Blood Rage: 5-Player Expansion, Valley of the Kings: our reading list. en we pick one book anytime we’re open - even if you don’t need us to teach Most points wins. Placement Game for active Games for Gatherings the box and divvy them up among the players so everyone completely lling your 5x5 grid, that is, not in the original version are approximately 1.5" x 3.25", the Castles rise 1.5" • Carcassonne Mini Expansions 1 thru 7 • Lewis & Clark: The Expedition - check out Time’s Up! Title Recall. e Nmbr 9, and Sagrada Last Rites and Love Letter: Premium. to read each month until they’re all read. At which time, you. • Zombie Dice - 8 Zombie- emed knows the names on a few of the cards. en form the NMBR 9 is a puzzling, number-stacking the Whole Family discarding any dominoes during the game, so there high, and the King Meeples are 1" tall. • Carcassonne: e Phantom - A Must- A Unique Racing Game with game play is exactly the same: you’re we start a new list. Newcomers are always welcome! Just Games cards back into one deck. Also decide whether you’re Mid-Week Gaming Jason Bush immediately turned the credit for his old Here’s a brief overview of the games in our May Learn to game. Score points by piling is month we're hosting a are no holes in your nished kingdom. Have Mini Expansion for Carcassonne Resource Management just guessing titles instead of people. I read the current book and show up. Any way you build your kingdom, whether you concentrate on endless Tina’s game reviews typically explain how the game plays - going to be using the Blue side or the Yellow side of the Every Wednesday 1pm-10pm games into new games, buying: Tzolk’in: e Mayan Play lineup. number-shaped tiles on top of Kingdomino Organized Play Day • Carcassonne: South Seas - First Stop Around the • Lost Cities - An Expedition for nd Time’s Up! Title Recall easier than Board Game Auction Results Kingdomino's game play is quick and simple, though you forests and sparkling lakes or the highs and lows of mountains and marshes, providing the information you need that’s rarely on the cards. at HBB&G! Calendar, Qwixx, Lost Cites, Alien Frontiers and Tanz der Our meetings are full of lively discussions of the current Saturday, May 12 Learn to Play Ticket to Ride each other. Only tiles on at Here Be Books & Games. We World Tw o Time’s Up! Tim prefers the original. Lots of great deals were had at Here Be Books & Games’ Board usually have to make some hard choices both when or a little bit of everything with lots of glittery crowns, it's a fun, puzzly game back of the box. She also makes good use of pictures of All players, passing the same deck around until it’s Hornochsen. book, show & tell of other stu we’ve read recently, the second level and up have some cool promos to give away as prizes to partici- • Century: Spice Road - If You Like • Pandemic - A Game Auction, Saturday, April 21. Ticket to Ride is a cross-country set-collection train placing dominoes and choosing your next domino. How that's over before you want it to be. 2 to 4 players ages 8 and up can play the game and its components. depleted, take turns trying to get their team to guess the Either game you play, time is ticking movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other score points: 1 x number Splendor, You‘ll Love is! Test of Mettle A BIG ank You to all the participants: the sellers who game in which players collect and play matching train pants, including: Dark Castles, Ice Castles, Princess bad do you want to go rst? Maybe that domino with the Kingdomino in about 15 minutes. Younger kids can play, too - they'll just in these interactive, modern 99 lots went up for auction with Tim presiding as INSIDE: geeky stu . It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t on 2nd level, 2 x number on • Cinque Terre If any of the above titles spark your interest, or you see a names on the cards over three rounds: brought Castles, Sand Castles and a Tile Tower. So, it seemed a need a little help calculating their scores at the end. - Pickup & Deliver and Cooperation Charades-style party games that are cards to claim railway routes connecting cities on a 3rd level, etc. Everyone plays the same number tiles in 3-crown mountain tile on it is worth going last. auctioneer, occassionally relieved by Bailey. Several games • Learn to Play Games at HBB&G their games like that month’s book. good time to write a review of this quick, puzzly, tile Produce on the Italian Riviera • Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - A Story game on your inking About List, you need only visit 1st Round, you can say almost anything! Hint: it’s a sooo much fun, they’re our favorite. turn-of-the-century map. Each Ticket to Ride game and the same order until all the tiles have been played. Count Because it's made by Blue Orange Games, the original were still in shrinkwrap. Some lots included a whole stack to the What are we reading in the near future? I’m glad you placement, kingdom-building game by Bruno Cathala, • Coal Baron - Workin’ in the Coal Mine Unfolds e Glass Meeple to be illuminated. good idea to use a gesture, too, if you can think of • Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club expansion o ers an exciting new twist, while keeping the your score and highest wins. publisher of Spot It!, you know Kingdomino is family of expansions along with the base game. auction and asked. Here’s a tentative list of the books we’ll likely read published by Blue Orange Games. Goin’ Down Down • Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 - A Fresh one. Your teammates can guess repeatedly, but you • Kingdomino Game Review friendly and that you can play it with the kids. But is it • Codenames: Pictures - 3 Relaxing Games Time’s Up! can’t pass. Don’t worry if you don’t know who some- e Franklin Mint 3D Chess Set, similar to the one Spock played on the the buyers in the near future – listed alphabetically by the member Sagrada is a beautiful puzzle Kingdomino, takes its name from and Exciting Pandemic Game • The Glass Meeple Game Reviews fun for adults? e answer is a resounding "Yes!" Take a • DC Comics Deck-building Game Series - one is, try to nd other ways to get your team to original Star Trek series, with its gold and silver plated chessmen, sadly got no who bid on who chose them, not in reading order: game of dice drafting and stained its domino game • Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu - Leash the Madness! • Time’s Up! Game Review them. look at some of the Honors Kingdomino has garnered Super Frenemies of America • P.I. - Don your fedoras and threnchcoats, guess. bids. It did generate a lot of laughter though, when Tim accidently said it was • e Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Aubrey) glass window crafting. Draft the pieces featuring since it debuted in 2016: • Dimension - at’s How the Ball gumshoes, mystery is afoot from “Star Wars” and Tina gently corrected that it was “Star Trek.” “Lost • New Arrivals & Back in Stock Many • e Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay sparkling transparent dice and a terrain tile at 2nd Round, you can only give a single one-word • 2016 Tric Trac Nominee Stacks • Qwixx - To X or Not to X some geek cred there, Tim,” one buyer commented to more laughter. • Used Games for Sale thanks to Smith (Carmen) place them in your window each end. Your clue, but you can gesture all you want and make matching its pattern. Use Tools • 2016 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee • Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & • Railroad Revolution - Specialized Workers Here’s a sampling of some of the games buyers did take home from the • Game Library Additions Bailey and • Rune Service by J.B. Garner (Diane) goal is to build the sounds. Your teammates only get one guess and you to break the rules and x your • 2017 Spiel des Jahres Winner Clark - A ematic Euro Dice Game Lend Layers of Complexity Issue 60 Here Be Books & Games News May 2018 auction: Roz for running the games back and forth between the • Hounded (Iron Druid series) by Kevin Hearne (Erik) same basic gameplay as the original. We’ve played most of window when you get stuck. Meet Objectives to earn richest kingdom lled with waving elds of grain; rich, • 2017 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nomi- • Dixit - 6+ Games for Fun & Interactive Gatherings • Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on Our Favorite can pass if you want. • El Gaucho - Round ’em Up and Move ’em Out! • Archipelago and solo expansion $45 Gate Room, where the games were on display, and the • Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Jonathan) them, including: Europe, Nordic Countries, USA 1910, points and win! Every game o ers new challenges. dark forests; sparkling lakes; green pastures; a bit of nee the Cursed Island - A Cooperative 3rd Round, you can’t say any • Fiery Dragons - 10 Games for Kids Party Game • Castles of Mad King Ludwig $30 Drgaon Room, where the auction was held. ank you so • Neuromancer by William Gibson (Tim) Rails & Sails, Asia, India, Heart of Africa, Nederlands, and at’s the Learn to Play lineup for May. marsh-land for that homey plu mud smell; towering • 2017 Gouden Ludo Best Family Game Winner Game Filled with Euro Game words at all. Just act it out! Your • Firefly: The Game - A Shiny • Kingdom Builder $17 much Roz, Liz and Diane for pulling games while I made * Note: you have to be attending meetings for your book U.K. & Pennsylvania. So let us teach you how to play mountains rich with ore; and golden crowns sprinkled • 2017 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee Goodness Tim and I used to play a teammates get one guess and you up the invoices and credit slips. e auction’s success was selection to be eligible as the next reading choice. Ticket to Ride! Game Set in the ’Verse • Robo Rally Reboot - e Classic • Kingsburg and To Forge A Realm Expansion $45 We Played Games All Day throughout to prove your abundance - and earn you loads Tim and I really like Kingdomino. It's light, fun, easy to lot of party games... and can pass on cards you don’t want a team e ort. With your kind help, it all went quite • Five Tribes - Journey to the Programmed-Movement Robot- • Mansions of Madness $20 A full list of all the books we’ve already read in Book Club Saturday, May 26 Learn to Play Puzzly Games of points. You score points for each contiguous terrain: teach and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's not all u and Did you know that Tina’s been writing game reviews for cards when we lived in San to waste time on. smoothly. & All Night to Celebrate World of the Arabian Nights Racing Game Gets an Update! • Small World $17 is available on our web site at: number of tiles times the number of crowns in that area. pretty pieces either. You have to make some hard choices. this newsletter since it launched in April 2013? After she Diego. at’s before we Azul is a beautiful puzzly • Flash! - A Real-Time Dice Game • Roll For It! - 4 Small Dice Games At the end of the rst round, after all • Snow Tails $32 We’re considering making this a quarterly event with the TableTop Day! Add 'em all up and that's your score. Highest score wins. Of course you want the dominoes with the crowns on had about 40 under her belt, she started her own blog: were introduced to hbbng.biz/book-club/ game of tile laying for 2-4 The Glass Meeple (theglassmeeple.com). for the Whole Family • Scotland Yard - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow designer board 40 cards have been guessed, review • Tyrants of the Underdark $25 next Board Game Auction in July. Tell us what you think Saturday, April 28 was International Sounds simple enough, but there are a few caveats: them, they multiply your terrain scores, but the dominoes players. Azul invites you, a • Forbidden Desert: irst for Old them with the group to make sure • Wasabi $37 and whether you’d be interested in partcipating. Is quar- So bring some of the Sci Fi & Fantasy books you’ve read TableTop Day, a celebration for all fans of tabletop with the crowns are also the highest valued, meaning you'll Here’s a list of some of the games she’s reviewed: games. You know, tile-laying artist, to embellish • Your kingdom may not exceed a 5x5 tile grid. Survival - e Sequel to Forbidden Island Provides • Splendor - Splendidly Addicting everyone knows who each person is • Willow $5 terly too often? Would just twice a year be better? Let us recently, bring yourself, and be prepared for loads of geeky gaming - a single day where the whole world is brought usually get last pick or next to last pick in the next round modern board games talk 6:00 pm, Friday, May 11 at Here Be Books & the walls of the Royal Palace of together in the common purpose of having fun playing • When placing a domino, at least one end must • 6 nimmt! - A Deceptively Simple Card Game New Mechanics and Challenges to Slake Your irst • Stone Age - A Classic Worker Placement like Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Castles of Burgundy and a before playing Round 2. Yes, there’s a e bidding was fun and lively with lots of good volleys know. when something even better might turn up. Games! Evora. Take turns drafting games together, face-to-face. Every year since its inception connect to a matching terrain tile. Your starting • 6 nimmt! Junior - 10 Games for Kids for Adventure Game slew of others that have the names of the designers written memory component to the game, too! on many items. Several buyers took home stacks of games colored tiles from factories to in 2013, we at Here Be Books & Games have hosted a Castle Tile is considered wild. Another thing I like about Kingdomino is that it scales well • Acquire 2016 - A 3D Plastic Reprint of • Get Bit! - 10 Games for Kids • Sushi Go! - A Fresh, Light Quick Snack on the cover like the author of a book. It’s important to listen to and, particu- like Adam Dintleman Learn to Play Board your player board. Score points based on how you place FREE TableTop Day celebration, and this year was no • The turn order each round is determined by who for di erent types of gamers: you can use the variants or the Classic Stock Market Game • Glass Road - Lighter Strategy Fare by Agricola’s • Ticket to Ride - 7 Classic Games at larly, to watch what clues the other seen here with his $120 Despite its debut in 1999, we didn’t discover Time’s Up! Kingdomino Play Day Games - Anytime - at your tiles to decorate the palace. Earn extra points for exception. chose the least not, it's up to you. When playing with young kids, you might want to keep it simple, leaving out the Harmony and • Agricola Revised Edition - How it Designer Never Grow Old teams are giving so you can use them, haul and Liz Yanzer until September 2010 at at Board Game ing in speci c patterns and sets; wasted tiles harm your score. valuable Middle Kingdom rules. With seasoned adults, you can throw in both scoring bonuses for a more challenging game. e Compares to the Original • Grand Austria Hotel - A Dice • Time’s Up! - Our Favorite Party Game too! Saturday, May 19 1pm to 7pm with some of her great HBB&G! In addition to playing games all day and all night, we gave Raleigh, North Carolina. I should say I discovered it, e player with the most points wins. domino in Dynasty variant provides a longer game in which you total the scores of three play-throughs to determine the winner. You • Aton - One of My Favorite Two-Play Selection Euro Game • Tuscany - Expands the World of Viticul- deals shown below. away promos and several games, too. Every attendee ’cause I was the one who played it rst then nally Time’s Up! is hilarious fun. I recom- Kingdomino is a fun, puzzly, tile-placement game the Anytime we’re open you can learn to the previ- can even combine Kingdomino with Queendomino for still more challenges, but that's a topic for another day. Games • Istanbul - A Lesson in Eciency ture in Myriad Ways Century: Spice Road is a gorgeous received a free promo of their choice and an entry in our convinced Tim and our guests to try it one Game Night mend three teams of three players whole family can play in about 15 minutes. Read the full Sellers made out, too. play a new game at Here Be Books & ous • Bohnanza - Growing Beans for Fun & • Jaipur - Send Your Camels to Trade • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - Time & 3D inking fast-paced and addictive game doorprize drawing. Ian McNear, Liz Yanzer, Derrick Kingdomino also plays well with just two players: the rulebook includes a variant in which players build 7x7 tile king- three years later. Tim was hooked then as were a lot of the each or more, but you can play with review later in this newsletter. e three biggest Store Games - or just come in and play! On Pro t • King of New York - Mutant Monsters • Unexploded Cow - Blowing Up Cows for Fun & Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting of spice trading and Seabrook, and Ti a Steppe each won their pick of a game doms and have two meeples with which to choose dominoes each round. other gamers who played Time’s Up! that night. as few as 4 players. ere were only We’re hosting a Kingdomino Organized Play Day Saturday, Credits we issued were the Saturdays when we’re not holding a special event or engine building for 2 to 5 • Bohnanza Card Games & Expansions - Rampage New york Pro t Friday, May 11, 6pm to 8pm from the game table. Mike Wengland won the special I love the bits in Kingdomino: the dominoes are nice and chunky - they're shiny, too. e Castles ere isn’t much to the components of Time’s Up! - just a four of us playing in my rst game of May 19 from 1pm to 7pm. If you don’t know how $336, $257, and $222. Game Night, we’ll post at least three games on the sched- players. Each turn you can round: From Pirates to Fairy Tales • King of Tokyo - A King-of-the-Hill • Valdora - Gorgeous Medieval- Castle Panic Tower 2018 promo and Taylor Rhett won are cute and colorful and who can resist wooden meeples in a new king meeple shape. e box timer; a scorepad; a bunch of double-sided cards featuring Time’s Up! to play, we’ll teach you. If you’re already e lowest was $30 for Reading: Revelation Space by Alastair ule that we’re prepared to teach, usually: take one of four actions: lowest value goes rst, then • Bohnanza: Pirates - Bean Trading on the Dice Game emed Pickup-and-Deliver the special Sagrada TableTop Day Window promo. also has a really nice insert to keep everything organized - always a plus in my book. the names of over 1000 famous people, both ctional and If you prefer guess- familiar with the game, this is your chance to play King- just one game. Reynolds (Zach’s pick) 1. An easy-to-learn and quick-playing casual game. 1) Take a Market card into second lowest, etc. Each domino High Seas • Kingdomino - A Puzzly Tile-Placement Game for the Game with Books ank you to everyone who came in and played games on has a number on its back to is year Blue Orange is releasing a giant-sized Kingdomino for retail. Kingdomino: • BraveRats, aka R - 10 Games for Kids Whole Family real; and a rulebook with a glossary that tells you who all ing the titles of domino and pick up some really cool Kingdomino promos Happy seller Michael e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets your hand for its create, trade • Vegas Showdown - A Classic 2. A medium-level game. TableTop Day. A good time was had by all. It was a fun guide you during setup at the Giant Version was originally created for retailers to use for in-store demos only, but when • Can't Stop - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow Old • La Granja: No Siesta! - e Lighter, Dicier Cousin those people are in case you don’t recognize some of them. books, movies, including: Dark Castle, Ice Castle, Princess Castle, Sand Castle Wengland posted on once a month at Here Be Books & or upgrade ability; 2) Play a card from your hand to Bidding Game of Casino Build- 3. A more complex strategy game. day. beginning of each round. customers clamored for a chance to buy it for themselves, • Carcassonne - e Classic Tile-laying • Las Vegas - Why Didn’t I ink of at? You probably won’t know who some of them are. I sadly television shows, and a Tile Tower. Admission is FREE. Facebook, “I earned Games. We read fantasy and science create, trade or upgrade spices; 3) Ful ll an Order card; 4) ing • One of Kingdomino's variants, Middle Kingdom, Blue Orange decided to produce more for retail. Each domino in Board Game Gets a New Look • Las Vegas: Boulevard - A 12-Module Expansion for know who more of the ctional people are than the real songs, albums, plays, $217.00 from their ction, old and new, including urban If you want to learn one of the scheduled games or Rest, taking all your cards back into your hand. e game • Viticulture - A Game of Growing Kingdomino - A requires you to make your Castle the center of your the Giant Version measures 3.12" x 6.25", the Castles rise a little over 3" • Carcassonne: Hills & Sheep Expansion - Las Vegas ones. musicals, paintings, auction!! Amazing!! Wasn't expecting that!! anks all!!” fantasy and alternate history. Attending something else, just drop by and we’ll teach you how to ends at the end of the round in which a player completes Grapes and Making Wine Puzzly Tile- kingdom: awarding you 10 points if you succeed. high, and the wooden King Meeples are 2" tall! You'll de nitely want e Hills Are Alive with the Sound of • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game - Experience and sculptures Mike’s already put some of his take to good use on Blood members each suggest a book to add to play! You’re also welcome to come by and play games a speci c number of Orders - depends on player count. • Wits & Wagers - 6+ Fun & Inter- To setup the game, divide into teams, pull 40 cards out of • In the Harmony variant you can earn 5 points for a bigger table to play this Great Dane-sized puppy. For comparison: dominoes Baaa-ing and Tie-breaking the Horror of a Zombie Apocalypse instead of people, Rage, Blood Rage: 5-Player Expansion, Valley of the Kings: our reading list. en we pick one book anytime we’re open - even if you don’t need us to teach Most points wins. Placement Game for active Games for Gatherings the box and divvy them up among the players so everyone completely lling your 5x5 grid, that is, not in the original version are approximately 1.5" x 3.25", the Castles rise 1.5" • Carcassonne Mini Expansions 1 thru 7 • Lewis & Clark: The Expedition - check out Time’s Up! Title Recall. e Last Rites and Love Letter: Premium. to read each month until they’re all read. At which time, you. • Zombie Dice - 8 Zombie- emed knows the names on a few of the cards. en form the NMBR 9 is a puzzling, number-stacking the Whole Family discarding any dominoes during the game, so there high, and the King Meeples are 1" tall. • Carcassonne: e Phantom - A Must- A Unique Racing Game with game play is exactly the same: you’re we start a new list. Newcomers are always welcome! Just Games cards back into one deck. Also decide whether you’re Jason Bush immediately turned the credit for his old Here’s a brief overview of the games in our May Learn to game. Score points by piling is month we're hosting a are no holes in your nished kingdom. Have Mini Expansion for Carcassonne Resource Management just guessing titles instead of people. I read the current book and show up. Any way you build your kingdom, whether you concentrate on endless Tina’s game reviews typically explain how the game plays - going to be using the Blue side or the Yellow side of the games into new games, buying: Tzolk’in: e Mayan Play lineup. number-shaped tiles on top of Kingdomino Organized Play Day • Carcassonne: South Seas - First Stop Around the • Lost Cities - An Expedition for nd Time’s Up! Title Recall easier than Board Game Auction Results Kingdomino's game play is quick and simple, though you forests and sparkling lakes or the highs and lows of mountains and marshes, providing the information you need that’s rarely on the cards. Calendar, Qwixx, Lost Cites, Alien Frontiers and Tanz der Our meetings are full of lively discussions of the current Saturday, May 12 Learn to Play Ticket to Ride each other. Only tiles on at Here Be Books & Games. We World Tw o Time’s Up! Tim prefers the original. Lots of great deals were had at Here Be Books & Games’ Board usually have to make some hard choices both when or a little bit of everything with lots of glittery crowns, it's a fun, puzzly game back of the box. She also makes good use of pictures of All players, passing the same deck around until it’s Hornochsen. book, show & tell of other stu we’ve read recently, the second level and up • Century: Spice Road - If You Like • Pandemic - A Ticket to Ride is a cross-country set-collection train have some cool promos to give away as prizes to partici- placing dominoes and choosing your next domino. How that's over before you want it to be. 2 to 4 players ages 8 and up can play Either game you play, time is ticking Game Auction, Saturday, April 21. movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other score points: 1 x number the game and its components. depleted, take turns trying to get their team to guess the A BIG ank You to all the participants: the sellers who pants, including: Dark Castles, Ice Castles, Princess Kingdomino Splendor, You‘ll Love is! Test of Mettle in these interactive, modern game in which players collect and play matching train on 2nd level, 2 x number on bad do you want to go rst? Maybe that domino with the in about 15 minutes. Younger kids can play, too - they'll just names on the cards over three rounds: 99 lots went up for auction with Tim presiding as brought geeky stu . It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t Castles, Sand Castles and a Tile Tower. So, it seemed a • Cinque Terre - Pickup & Deliver and Cooperation If any of the above titles spark your interest, or you see a Charades-style party games that are cards to claim railway routes connecting cities on a 3rd level, etc. Everyone plays the same number tiles in 3-crown mountain tile on it is worth going last. need a little help calculating their scores at the end. auctioneer, occassionally relieved by Bailey. Several games their games like that month’s book. good time to write a review of this quick, puzzly, tile Produce on the Italian Riviera • Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - A Story game on your inking About List, you need only visit 1st Round, you can say almost anything! Hint: it’s a sooo much fun, they’re our favorite. turn-of-the-century map. Each Ticket to Ride game and the same order until all the tiles have been played. Count Because it's made by Blue Orange Games, the original were still in shrinkwrap. Some lots included a whole stack to the What are we reading in the near future? I’m glad you placement, kingdom-building game by Bruno Cathala, • Coal Baron - Workin’ in the Coal Mine Unfolds e Glass Meeple to be illuminated. good idea to use a gesture, too, if you can think of expansion o ers an exciting new twist, while keeping the your score and highest wins. publisher of Spot It!, you know Kingdomino is family of expansions along with the base game. auction and asked. Here’s a tentative list of the books we’ll likely read published by Blue Orange Games. Goin’ Down Down • Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 - A Fresh one. Your teammates can guess repeatedly, but you friendly and that you can play it with the kids. But is it • Codenames: Pictures - 3 Relaxing Games Time’s Up! can’t pass. Don’t worry if you don’t know who some- e Franklin Mint 3D Chess Set, similar to the one Spock played on the the buyers in the near future – listed alphabetically by the member Sagrada is a beautiful puzzle Kingdomino, takes its name from and Exciting Pandemic Game fun for adults? e answer is a resounding "Yes!" Take a • DC Comics Deck-building Game Series - one is, try to nd other ways to get your team to original Star Trek series, with its gold and silver plated chessmen, sadly got no who bid on who chose them, not in reading order: game of dice drafting and stained its domino game • Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu - Leash the Madness! them. look at some of the Honors Kingdomino has garnered Super Frenemies of America • P.I. - Don your fedoras and threnchcoats, guess. bids. It did generate a lot of laughter though, when Tim accidently said it was • e Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Aubrey) glass window crafting. Draft the pieces featuring since it debuted in 2016: • Dimension - at’s How the Ball gumshoes, mystery is afoot from “Star Wars” and Tina gently corrected that it was “Star Trek.” “Lost Many • e Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay sparkling transparent dice and a terrain tile at 2nd Round, you can only give a single one-word • 2016 Tric Trac Nominee Stacks • Qwixx - To X or Not to X some geek cred there, Tim,” one buyer commented to more laughter. thanks to Smith (Carmen) place them in your window each end. Your clue, but you can gesture all you want and make • 2016 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee • Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & • Railroad Revolution - Specialized Workers Here’s a sampling of some of the games buyers did take home from the Bailey and • Rune Service by J.B. Garner (Diane) matching its pattern. Use Tools goal is to build the sounds. Your teammates only get one guess and you to break the rules and x your • 2017 Spiel des Jahres Winner Clark - A ematic Euro Dice Game Lend Layers of Complexity 2 Issue 60 Here Be Books & Games News May 2018 auction: Roz for running the games back and forth between the • Hounded (Iron Druid series) by Kevin Hearne (Erik) same basic gameplay as the original. We’ve played most of window when you get stuck. Meet Objectives to earn richest kingdom lled with waving elds of grain; rich, • 2017 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nomi- • Dixit - 6+ Games for Fun & Interactive Gatherings • Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on Our Favorite can pass if you want. • El Gaucho - Round ’em Up and Move ’em Out! • Archipelago and solo expansion $45 Gate Room, where the games were on display, and the • Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Jonathan) them, including: Europe, Nordic Countries, USA 1910, points and win! Every game o ers new challenges. dark forests; sparkling lakes; green pastures; a bit of nee the Cursed Island - A Cooperative 3rd Round, you can’t say any • Fiery Dragons - 10 Games for Kids Party Game • Castles of Mad King Ludwig $30 Drgaon Room, where the auction was held. ank you so • Neuromancer by William Gibson (Tim) Rails & Sails, Asia, India, Heart of Africa, Nederlands, and at’s the Learn to Play lineup for May. marsh-land for that homey plu mud smell; towering • 2017 Gouden Ludo Best Family Game Winner Game Filled with Euro Game words at all. Just act it out! Your • Firefly: The Game - A Shiny • Kingdom Builder $17 much Roz, Liz and Diane for pulling games while I made * Note: you have to be attending meetings for your book U.K. & Pennsylvania. So let us teach you how to play mountains rich with ore; and golden crowns sprinkled • 2017 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee Goodness Tim and I used to play a teammates get one guess and you up the invoices and credit slips. e auction’s success was selection to be eligible as the next reading choice. Ticket to Ride! Game Set in the ’Verse • Robo Rally Reboot - e Classic • Kingsburg and To Forge A Realm Expansion $45 We Played Games All Day throughout to prove your abundance - and earn you loads Tim and I really like Kingdomino. It's light, fun, easy to lot of party games... and can pass on cards you don’t want a team e ort. With your kind help, it all went quite • Five Tribes - Journey to the Programmed-Movement Robot- • Mansions of Madness $20 A full list of all the books we’ve already read in Book Club Saturday, May 26 Learn to Play Puzzly Games of points. You score points for each contiguous terrain: teach and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's not all u and Did you know that Tina’s been writing game reviews for cards when we lived in San to waste time on. smoothly. & All Night to Celebrate World of the Arabian Nights Racing Game Gets an Update! • Small World $17 is available on our web site at: number of tiles times the number of crowns in that area. pretty pieces either. You have to make some hard choices. this newsletter since it launched in April 2013? After she Diego. at’s before we Azul is a beautiful puzzly • Flash! - A Real-Time Dice Game • Roll For It! - 4 Small Dice Games At the end of the rst round, after all • Snow Tails $32 We’re considering making this a quarterly event with the TableTop Day! Add 'em all up and that's your score. Highest score wins. Of course you want the dominoes with the crowns on had about 40 under her belt, she started her own blog: were introduced to hbbng.biz/book-club/ game of tile laying for 2-4 The Glass Meeple (theglassmeeple.com). for the Whole Family • Scotland Yard - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow designer board 40 cards have been guessed, review • Tyrants of the Underdark $25 next Board Game Auction in July. Tell us what you think Saturday, April 28 was International Sounds simple enough, but there are a few caveats: them, they multiply your terrain scores, but the dominoes players. Azul invites you, a • Forbidden Desert: irst for Old them with the group to make sure • Wasabi $37 and whether you’d be interested in partcipating. Is quar- So bring some of the Sci Fi & Fantasy books you’ve read TableTop Day, a celebration for all fans of tabletop with the crowns are also the highest valued, meaning you'll Here’s a list of some of the games she’s reviewed: games. You know, tile-laying artist, to embellish • Your kingdom may not exceed a 5x5 tile grid. Survival - e Sequel to Forbidden Island Provides • Splendor - Splendidly Addicting everyone knows who each person is • Willow $5 terly too often? Would just twice a year be better? Let us recently, bring yourself, and be prepared for loads of geeky gaming - a single day where the whole world is brought usually get last pick or next to last pick in the next round modern board games talk 6:00 pm, Friday, May 11 at Here Be Books & the walls of the Royal Palace of together in the common purpose of having fun playing • When placing a domino, at least one end must • 6 nimmt! - A Deceptively Simple Card Game New Mechanics and Challenges to Slake Your irst • Stone Age - A Classic Worker Placement like Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Castles of Burgundy and a before playing Round 2. Yes, there’s a e bidding was fun and lively with lots of good volleys know. when something even better might turn up. Games! Evora. Take turns drafting games together, face-to-face. Every year since its inception connect to a matching terrain tile. Your starting • 6 nimmt! Junior - 10 Games for Kids for Adventure Game slew of others that have the names of the designers written memory component to the game, too! on many items. Several buyers took home stacks of games colored tiles from factories to in 2013, we at Here Be Books & Games have hosted a Castle Tile is considered wild. Another thing I like about Kingdomino is that it scales well • Acquire 2016 - A 3D Plastic Reprint of • Get Bit! - 10 Games for Kids • Sushi Go! - A Fresh, Light Quick Snack on the cover like the author of a book. It’s important to listen to and, particu- like Adam Dintleman Learn to Play Board your player board. Score points based on how you place FREE TableTop Day celebration, and this year was no • The turn order each round is determined by who for di erent types of gamers: you can use the variants or the Classic Stock Market Game • Glass Road - Lighter Strategy Fare by Agricola’s • Ticket to Ride - 7 Classic Games at larly, to watch what clues the other seen here with his $120 Despite its debut in 1999, we didn’t discover Time’s Up! Kingdomino Play Day Games - Anytime - at your tiles to decorate the palace. Earn extra points for exception. chose the least not, it's up to you. When playing with young kids, you might want to keep it simple, leaving out the Harmony and • Agricola Revised Edition - How it Designer Never Grow Old teams are giving so you can use them, haul and Liz Yanzer until September 2010 at at Board Game ing in speci c patterns and sets; wasted tiles harm your score. valuable Middle Kingdom rules. With seasoned adults, you can throw in both scoring bonuses for a more challenging game. e Compares to the Original • Grand Austria Hotel - A Dice • Time’s Up! - Our Favorite Party Game too! Saturday, May 19 1pm to 7pm with some of her great HBB&G! In addition to playing games all day and all night, we gave Raleigh, North Carolina. I should say I discovered it, e player with the most points wins. domino in Dynasty variant provides a longer game in which you total the scores of three play-throughs to determine the winner. You • Aton - One of My Favorite Two-Play Selection Euro Game • Tuscany - Expands the World of Viticul- deals shown below. away promos and several games, too. Every attendee ’cause I was the one who played it rst then nally Time’s Up! is hilarious fun. I recom- Kingdomino is a fun, puzzly, tile-placement game the Anytime we’re open you can learn to the previ- can even combine Kingdomino with Queendomino for still more challenges, but that's a topic for another day. Games • Istanbul - A Lesson in Eciency ture in Myriad Ways Century: Spice Road is a gorgeous received a free promo of their choice and an entry in our convinced Tim and our guests to try it one Game Night mend three teams of three players whole family can play in about 15 minutes. Read the full Sellers made out, too. play a new game at Here Be Books & ous • Bohnanza - Growing Beans for Fun & • Jaipur - Send Your Camels to Trade • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - Time & 3D inking fast-paced and addictive game doorprize drawing. Ian McNear, Liz Yanzer, Derrick Kingdomino also plays well with just two players: the rulebook includes a variant in which players build 7x7 tile king- three years later. Tim was hooked then as were a lot of the each or more, but you can play with review later in this newsletter. e three biggest Store Games - or just come in and play! On Pro t • King of New York - Mutant Monsters • Unexploded Cow - Blowing Up Cows for Fun & Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting of spice trading and Seabrook, and Ti a Steppe each won their pick of a game doms and have two meeples with which to choose dominoes each round. other gamers who played Time’s Up! that night. as few as 4 players. ere were only We’re hosting a Kingdomino Organized Play Day Saturday, Credits we issued were the Saturdays when we’re not holding a special event or engine building for 2 to 5 • Bohnanza Card Games & Expansions - Rampage New york Pro t Friday, May 11, 6pm to 8pm from the game table. Mike Wengland won the special I love the bits in Kingdomino: the dominoes are nice and chunky - they're shiny, too. e Castles ere isn’t much to the components of Time’s Up! - just a four of us playing in my rst game of May 19 from 1pm to 7pm. If you don’t know how $336, $257, and $222. Game Night, we’ll post at least three games on the sched- players. Each turn you can round: From Pirates to Fairy Tales • King of Tokyo - A King-of-the-Hill • Valdora - Gorgeous Medieval- Castle Panic Tower 2018 promo and Taylor Rhett won are cute and colorful and who can resist wooden meeples in a new king meeple shape. e box timer; a scorepad; a bunch of double-sided cards featuring Time’s Up! to play, we’ll teach you. If you’re already e lowest was $30 for Reading: Revelation Space by Alastair ule that we’re prepared to teach, usually: take one of four actions: lowest value goes rst, then • Bohnanza: Pirates - Bean Trading on the Dice Game emed Pickup-and-Deliver the special Sagrada TableTop Day Window promo. also has a really nice insert to keep everything organized - always a plus in my book. the names of over 1000 famous people, both ctional and If you prefer guess- familiar with the game, this is your chance to play King- just one game. Reynolds (Zach’s pick) 1. An easy-to-learn and quick-playing casual game. 1) Take a Market card into second lowest, etc. Each domino High Seas • Kingdomino - A Puzzly Tile-Placement Game for the Game with Books ank you to everyone who came in and played games on has a number on its back to is year Blue Orange is releasing a giant-sized Kingdomino for retail. Kingdomino: • BraveRats, aka R - 10 Games for Kids Whole Family real; and a rulebook with a glossary that tells you who all ing the titles of domino and pick up some really cool Kingdomino promos Happy seller Michael e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets your hand for its create, trade • Vegas Showdown - A Classic 2. A medium-level game. TableTop Day. A good time was had by all. It was a fun guide you during setup at the Giant Version was originally created for retailers to use for in-store demos only, but when • Can't Stop - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow Old • La Granja: No Siesta! - e Lighter, Dicier Cousin those people are in case you don’t recognize some of them. books, movies, including: Dark Castle, Ice Castle, Princess Castle, Sand Castle Wengland posted on once a month at Here Be Books & or upgrade ability; 2) Play a card from your hand to Bidding Game of Casino Build- 3. A more complex strategy game. day. beginning of each round. customers clamored for a chance to buy it for themselves, • Carcassonne - e Classic Tile-laying • Las Vegas - Why Didn’t I ink of at? You probably won’t know who some of them are. I sadly television shows, and a Tile Tower. Admission is FREE. Facebook, “I earned Games. We read fantasy and science create, trade or upgrade spices; 3) Ful ll an Order card; 4) ing • One of Kingdomino's variants, Middle Kingdom, Blue Orange decided to produce more for retail. Each domino in Board Game Gets a New Look • Las Vegas: Boulevard - A 12-Module Expansion for know who more of the ctional people are than the real songs, albums, plays, $217.00 from their ction, old and new, including urban If you want to learn one of the scheduled games or Rest, taking all your cards back into your hand. e game • Viticulture - A Game of Growing Kingdomino - A requires you to make your Castle the center of your the Giant Version measures 3.12" x 6.25", the Castles rise a little over 3" • Carcassonne: Hills & Sheep Expansion - Las Vegas ones. musicals, paintings, auction!! Amazing!! Wasn't expecting that!! anks all!!” fantasy and alternate history. Attending something else, just drop by and we’ll teach you how to ends at the end of the round in which a player completes Grapes and Making Wine Puzzly Tile- kingdom: awarding you 10 points if you succeed. high, and the wooden King Meeples are 2" tall! You'll de nitely want e Hills Are Alive with the Sound of • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game - Experience and sculptures Mike’s already put some of his take to good use on Blood members each suggest a book to add to play! You’re also welcome to come by and play games a speci c number of Orders - depends on player count. • Wits & Wagers - 6+ Fun & Inter- To setup the game, divide into teams, pull 40 cards out of • In the Harmony variant you can earn 5 points for a bigger table to play this Great Dane-sized puppy. For comparison: dominoes Baaa-ing and Tie-breaking the Horror of a Zombie Apocalypse instead of people, Rage, Blood Rage: 5-Player Expansion, Valley of the Kings: our reading list. en we pick one book anytime we’re open - even if you don’t need us to teach Most points wins. Placement Game for active Games for Gatherings the box and divvy them up among the players so everyone completely lling your 5x5 grid, that is, not in the original version are approximately 1.5" x 3.25", the Castles rise 1.5" • Carcassonne Mini Expansions 1 thru 7 • Lewis & Clark: The Expedition - check out Time’s Up! Title Recall. e Last Rites and Love Letter: Premium. to read each month until they’re all read. At which time, you. • Zombie Dice - 8 Zombie- emed knows the names on a few of the cards. en form the NMBR 9 is a puzzling, number-stacking the Whole Family discarding any dominoes during the game, so there high, and the King Meeples are 1" tall. • Carcassonne: e Phantom - A Must- A Unique Racing Game with game play is exactly the same: you’re we start a new list. Newcomers are always welcome! Just Games cards back into one deck. Also decide whether you’re Jason Bush immediately turned the credit for his old Here’s a brief overview of the games in our May Learn to game. Score points by piling is month we're hosting a are no holes in your nished kingdom. Have Mini Expansion for Carcassonne Resource Management just guessing titles instead of people. I read the current book and show up. Any way you build your kingdom, whether you concentrate on endless Tina’s game reviews typically explain how the game plays - going to be using the Blue side or the Yellow side of the games into new games, buying: Tzolk’in: e Mayan Play lineup. number-shaped tiles on top of Kingdomino Organized Play Day • Carcassonne: South Seas - First Stop Around the • Lost Cities - An Expedition for nd Time’s Up! Title Recall easier than Board Game Auction Results Kingdomino's game play is quick and simple, though you forests and sparkling lakes or the highs and lows of mountains and marshes, providing the information you need that’s rarely on the cards. Calendar, Qwixx, Lost Cites, Alien Frontiers and Tanz der Our meetings are full of lively discussions of the current Saturday, May 12 Learn to Play Ticket to Ride each other. Only tiles on at Here Be Books & Games. We World Tw o Time’s Up! Tim prefers the original. Lots of great deals were had at Here Be Books & Games’ Board usually have to make some hard choices both when or a little bit of everything with lots of glittery crowns, it's a fun, puzzly game back of the box. She also makes good use of pictures of All players, passing the same deck around until it’s Hornochsen. book, show & tell of other stu we’ve read recently, the second level and up • Century: Spice Road - If You Like • Pandemic - A Ticket to Ride is a cross-country set-collection train have some cool promos to give away as prizes to partici- placing dominoes and choosing your next domino. How that's over before you want it to be. 2 to 4 players ages 8 and up can play Either game you play, time is ticking Game Auction, Saturday, April 21. movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other score points: 1 x number the game and its components. depleted, take turns trying to get their team to guess the A BIG ank You to all the participants: the sellers who pants, including: Dark Castles, Ice Castles, Princess Kingdomino Splendor, You‘ll Love is! Test of Mettle in these interactive, modern game in which players collect and play matching train on 2nd level, 2 x number on bad do you want to go rst? Maybe that domino with the in about 15 minutes. Younger kids can play, too - they'll just names on the cards over three rounds: 99 lots went up for auction with Tim presiding as brought geeky stu . It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t Castles, Sand Castles and a Tile Tower. So, it seemed a • Cinque Terre - Pickup & Deliver and Cooperation If any of the above titles spark your interest, or you see a Charades-style party games that are cards to claim railway routes connecting cities on a 3rd level, etc. Everyone plays the same number tiles in 3-crown mountain tile on it is worth going last. need a little help calculating their scores at the end. auctioneer, occassionally relieved by Bailey. Several games their games like that month’s book. good time to write a review of this quick, puzzly, tile Produce on the Italian Riviera • Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - A Story game on your inking About List, you need only visit 1st Round, you can say almost anything! Hint: it’s a sooo much fun, they’re our favorite. turn-of-the-century map. Each Ticket to Ride game and the same order until all the tiles have been played. Count Because it's made by Blue Orange Games, the original were still in shrinkwrap. Some lots included a whole stack to the What are we reading in the near future? I’m glad you placement, kingdom-building game by Bruno Cathala, • Coal Baron - Workin’ in the Coal Mine Unfolds e Glass Meeple to be illuminated. good idea to use a gesture, too, if you can think of expansion o ers an exciting new twist, while keeping the your score and highest wins. publisher of Spot It!, you know Kingdomino is family of expansions along with the base game. auction and asked. Here’s a tentative list of the books we’ll likely read published by Blue Orange Games. Goin’ Down Down • Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 - A Fresh one. Your teammates can guess repeatedly, but you friendly and that you can play it with the kids. But is it • Codenames: Pictures - 3 Relaxing Games Time’s Up! can’t pass. Don’t worry if you don’t know who some- e Franklin Mint 3D Chess Set, similar to the one Spock played on the the buyers in the near future – listed alphabetically by the member Sagrada is a beautiful puzzle Kingdomino, takes its name from and Exciting Pandemic Game fun for adults? e answer is a resounding "Yes!" Take a • DC Comics Deck-building Game Series - one is, try to nd other ways to get your team to original Star Trek series, with its gold and silver plated chessmen, sadly got no who bid on who chose them, not in reading order: game of dice drafting and stained its domino game • Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu - Leash the Madness! them. look at some of the Honors Kingdomino has garnered Super Frenemies of America • P.I. - Don your fedoras and threnchcoats, guess. bids. It did generate a lot of laughter though, when Tim accidently said it was • e Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Aubrey) glass window crafting. Draft the pieces featuring since it debuted in 2016: • Dimension - at’s How the Ball gumshoes, mystery is afoot from “Star Wars” and Tina gently corrected that it was “Star Trek.” “Lost Many • e Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay sparkling transparent dice and a terrain tile at 2nd Round, you can only give a single one-word • 2016 Tric Trac Nominee Stacks • Qwixx - To X or Not to X some geek cred there, Tim,” one buyer commented to more laughter. thanks to Smith (Carmen) place them in your window each end. Your clue, but you can gesture all you want and make • 2016 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee • Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & • Railroad Revolution - Specialized Workers Here’s a sampling of some of the games buyers did take home from the Bailey and • Rune Service by J.B. Garner (Diane) matching its pattern. Use Tools goal is to build the sounds. Your teammates only get one guess and you to break the rules and x your • 2017 Spiel des Jahres Winner Clark - A ematic Euro Dice Game Lend Layers of Complexity 3 Issue 60 Here Be Books & Games News May 2018 auction: Roz for running the games back and forth between the • Hounded (Iron Druid series) by Kevin Hearne (Erik) same basic gameplay as the original. We’ve played most of window when you get stuck. Meet Objectives to earn richest kingdom lled with waving elds of grain; rich, • 2017 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nomi- • Dixit - 6+ Games for Fun & Interactive Gatherings • Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on Our Favorite can pass if you want. • El Gaucho - Round ’em Up and Move ’em Out! • Archipelago and solo expansion $45 Gate Room, where the games were on display, and the • Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Jonathan) them, including: Europe, Nordic Countries, USA 1910, points and win! Every game o ers new challenges. dark forests; sparkling lakes; green pastures; a bit of nee the Cursed Island - A Cooperative 3rd Round, you can’t say any • Fiery Dragons - 10 Games for Kids Party Game • Castles of Mad King Ludwig $30 Drgaon Room, where the auction was held. ank you so • Neuromancer by William Gibson (Tim) Rails & Sails, Asia, India, Heart of Africa, Nederlands, and at’s the Learn to Play lineup for May. marsh-land for that homey plu mud smell; towering • 2017 Gouden Ludo Best Family Game Winner Game Filled with Euro Game words at all. Just act it out! Your • Firefly: The Game - A Shiny • Kingdom Builder $17 much Roz, Liz and Diane for pulling games while I made * Note: you have to be attending meetings for your book U.K. & Pennsylvania. So let us teach you how to play mountains rich with ore; and golden crowns sprinkled • 2017 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee Goodness Tim and I used to play a teammates get one guess and you up the invoices and credit slips. e auction’s success was selection to be eligible as the next reading choice. Ticket to Ride! Game Set in the ’Verse • Robo Rally Reboot - e Classic • Kingsburg and To Forge A Realm Expansion $45 We Played Games All Day throughout to prove your abundance - and earn you loads Tim and I really like Kingdomino. It's light, fun, easy to lot of party games... and can pass on cards you don’t want a team e ort. With your kind help, it all went quite • Five Tribes - Journey to the Programmed-Movement Robot- • Mansions of Madness $20 A full list of all the books we’ve already read in Book Club Saturday, May 26 Learn to Play Puzzly Games of points. You score points for each contiguous terrain: teach and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's not all u and Did you know that Tina’s been writing game reviews for cards when we lived in San to waste time on. smoothly. & All Night to Celebrate World of the Arabian Nights Racing Game Gets an Update! • Small World $17 is available on our web site at: number of tiles times the number of crowns in that area. pretty pieces either. You have to make some hard choices. this newsletter since it launched in April 2013? After she Diego. at’s before we Azul is a beautiful puzzly • Flash! - A Real-Time Dice Game • Roll For It! - 4 Small Dice Games At the end of the rst round, after all • Snow Tails $32 We’re considering making this a quarterly event with the TableTop Day! Add 'em all up and that's your score. Highest score wins. Of course you want the dominoes with the crowns on had about 40 under her belt, she started her own blog: were introduced to hbbng.biz/book-club/ game of tile laying for 2-4 The Glass Meeple (theglassmeeple.com). for the Whole Family • Scotland Yard - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow designer board 40 cards have been guessed, review • Tyrants of the Underdark $25 next Board Game Auction in July. Tell us what you think Saturday, April 28 was International Sounds simple enough, but there are a few caveats: them, they multiply your terrain scores, but the dominoes players. Azul invites you, a • Forbidden Desert: irst for Old them with the group to make sure • Wasabi $37 and whether you’d be interested in partcipating. Is quar- So bring some of the Sci Fi & Fantasy books you’ve read TableTop Day, a celebration for all fans of tabletop with the crowns are also the highest valued, meaning you'll Here’s a list of some of the games she’s reviewed: games. You know, tile-laying artist, to embellish • Your kingdom may not exceed a 5x5 tile grid. Survival - e Sequel to Forbidden Island Provides • Splendor - Splendidly Addicting everyone knows who each person is • Willow $5 terly too often? Would just twice a year be better? Let us recently, bring yourself, and be prepared for loads of geeky gaming - a single day where the whole world is brought usually get last pick or next to last pick in the next round modern board games talk 6:00 pm, Friday, May 11 at Here Be Books & the walls of the Royal Palace of together in the common purpose of having fun playing • When placing a domino, at least one end must • 6 nimmt! - A Deceptively Simple Card Game New Mechanics and Challenges to Slake Your irst • Stone Age - A Classic Worker Placement like Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Castles of Burgundy and a before playing Round 2. Yes, there’s a e bidding was fun and lively with lots of good volleys know. when something even better might turn up. Games! Evora. Take turns drafting games together, face-to-face. Every year since its inception connect to a matching terrain tile. Your starting • 6 nimmt! Junior - 10 Games for Kids for Adventure Game slew of others that have the names of the designers written memory component to the game, too! on many items. Several buyers took home stacks of games colored tiles from factories to in 2013, we at Here Be Books & Games have hosted a Castle Tile is considered wild. Another thing I like about Kingdomino is that it scales well • Acquire 2016 - A 3D Plastic Reprint of • Get Bit! - 10 Games for Kids • Sushi Go! - A Fresh, Light Quick Snack on the cover like the author of a book. It’s important to listen to and, particu- like Adam Dintleman Learn to Play Board your player board. Score points based on how you place FREE TableTop Day celebration, and this year was no • The turn order each round is determined by who for di erent types of gamers: you can use the variants or the Classic Stock Market Game • Glass Road - Lighter Strategy Fare by Agricola’s • Ticket to Ride - 7 Classic Games at larly, to watch what clues the other seen here with his $120 Despite its debut in 1999, we didn’t discover Time’s Up! Kingdomino Play Day Games - Anytime - at your tiles to decorate the palace. Earn extra points for exception. chose the least not, it's up to you. When playing with young kids, you might want to keep it simple, leaving out the Harmony and • Agricola Revised Edition - How it Designer Never Grow Old teams are giving so you can use them, haul and Liz Yanzer until September 2010 at at Board Game ing in speci c patterns and sets; wasted tiles harm your score. valuable Middle Kingdom rules. With seasoned adults, you can throw in both scoring bonuses for a more challenging game. e Compares to the Original • Grand Austria Hotel - A Dice • Time’s Up! - Our Favorite Party Game too! Saturday, May 19 1pm to 7pm with some of her great HBB&G! In addition to playing games all day and all night, we gave Raleigh, North Carolina. I should say I discovered it, e player with the most points wins. domino in Dynasty variant provides a longer game in which you total the scores of three play-throughs to determine the winner. You • Aton - One of My Favorite Two-Play Selection Euro Game • Tuscany - Expands the World of Viticul- deals shown below. away promos and several games, too. Every attendee ’cause I was the one who played it rst then nally Time’s Up! is hilarious fun. I recom- Kingdomino is a fun, puzzly, tile-placement game the Anytime we’re open you can learn to the previ- can even combine Kingdomino with Queendomino for still more challenges, but that's a topic for another day. Games • Istanbul - A Lesson in Eciency ture in Myriad Ways Century: Spice Road is a gorgeous received a free promo of their choice and an entry in our convinced Tim and our guests to try it one Game Night mend three teams of three players whole family can play in about 15 minutes. Read the full Sellers made out, too. play a new game at Here Be Books & ous • Bohnanza - Growing Beans for Fun & • Jaipur - Send Your Camels to Trade • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - Time & 3D inking fast-paced and addictive game doorprize drawing. Ian McNear, Liz Yanzer, Derrick Kingdomino also plays well with just two players: the rulebook includes a variant in which players build 7x7 tile king- three years later. Tim was hooked then as were a lot of the each or more, but you can play with review later in this newsletter. e three biggest Store Games - or just come in and play! On Pro t • King of New York - Mutant Monsters • Unexploded Cow - Blowing Up Cows for Fun & Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting of spice trading and Seabrook, and Ti a Steppe each won their pick of a game doms and have two meeples with which to choose dominoes each round. other gamers who played Time’s Up! that night. as few as 4 players. ere were only We’re hosting a Kingdomino Organized Play Day Saturday, Credits we issued were the Saturdays when we’re not holding a special event or engine building for 2 to 5 • Bohnanza Card Games & Expansions - Rampage New york Pro t Friday, May 11, 6pm to 8pm from the game table. Mike Wengland won the special I love the bits in Kingdomino: the dominoes are nice and chunky - they're shiny, too. e Castles ere isn’t much to the components of Time’s Up! - just a four of us playing in my rst game of May 19 from 1pm to 7pm. If you don’t know how $336, $257, and $222. Game Night, we’ll post at least three games on the sched- players. Each turn you can round: From Pirates to Fairy Tales • King of Tokyo - A King-of-the-Hill • Valdora - Gorgeous Medieval- Castle Panic Tower 2018 promo and Taylor Rhett won are cute and colorful and who can resist wooden meeples in a new king meeple shape. e box timer; a scorepad; a bunch of double-sided cards featuring Time’s Up! to play, we’ll teach you. If you’re already e lowest was $30 for Reading: Revelation Space by Alastair ule that we’re prepared to teach, usually: take one of four actions: lowest value goes rst, then • Bohnanza: Pirates - Bean Trading on the Dice Game emed Pickup-and-Deliver the special Sagrada TableTop Day Window promo. also has a really nice insert to keep everything organized - always a plus in my book. the names of over 1000 famous people, both ctional and If you prefer guess- familiar with the game, this is your chance to play King- just one game. Reynolds (Zach’s pick) 1. An easy-to-learn and quick-playing casual game. 1) Take a Market card into second lowest, etc. Each domino High Seas • Kingdomino - A Puzzly Tile-Placement Game for the Game with Books ank you to everyone who came in and played games on has a number on its back to is year Blue Orange is releasing a giant-sized Kingdomino for retail. Kingdomino: • BraveRats, aka R - 10 Games for Kids Whole Family real; and a rulebook with a glossary that tells you who all ing the titles of domino and pick up some really cool Kingdomino promos Happy seller Michael e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets your hand for its create, trade • Vegas Showdown - A Classic 2. A medium-level game. TableTop Day. A good time was had by all. It was a fun guide you during setup at the Giant Version was originally created for retailers to use for in-store demos only, but when • Can't Stop - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow Old • La Granja: No Siesta! - e Lighter, Dicier Cousin those people are in case you don’t recognize some of them. books, movies, including: Dark Castle, Ice Castle, Princess Castle, Sand Castle Wengland posted on once a month at Here Be Books & or upgrade ability; 2) Play a card from your hand to Bidding Game of Casino Build- 3. A more complex strategy game. day. beginning of each round. customers clamored for a chance to buy it for themselves, • Carcassonne - e Classic Tile-laying • Las Vegas - Why Didn’t I ink of at? You probably won’t know who some of them are. I sadly television shows, and a Tile Tower. Admission is FREE. Facebook, “I earned Games. We read fantasy and science create, trade or upgrade spices; 3) Ful ll an Order card; 4) ing • One of Kingdomino's variants, Middle Kingdom, Blue Orange decided to produce more for retail. Each domino in Board Game Gets a New Look • Las Vegas: Boulevard - A 12-Module Expansion for know who more of the ctional people are than the real songs, albums, plays, $217.00 from their ction, old and new, including urban If you want to learn one of the scheduled games or Rest, taking all your cards back into your hand. e game • Viticulture - A Game of Growing Kingdomino - A requires you to make your Castle the center of your the Giant Version measures 3.12" x 6.25", the Castles rise a little over 3" • Carcassonne: Hills & Sheep Expansion - Las Vegas ones. musicals, paintings, auction!! Amazing!! Wasn't expecting that!! anks all!!” fantasy and alternate history. Attending something else, just drop by and we’ll teach you how to ends at the end of the round in which a player completes Grapes and Making Wine Puzzly Tile- kingdom: awarding you 10 points if you succeed. high, and the wooden King Meeples are 2" tall! You'll de nitely want e Hills Are Alive with the Sound of • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game - Experience and sculptures Mike’s already put some of his take to good use on Blood members each suggest a book to add to play! You’re also welcome to come by and play games a speci c number of Orders - depends on player count. • Wits & Wagers - 6+ Fun & Inter- To setup the game, divide into teams, pull 40 cards out of • In the Harmony variant you can earn 5 points for a bigger table to play this Great Dane-sized puppy. For comparison: dominoes Baaa-ing and Tie-breaking the Horror of a Zombie Apocalypse instead of people, Rage, Blood Rage: 5-Player Expansion, Valley of the Kings: our reading list. en we pick one book anytime we’re open - even if you don’t need us to teach Most points wins. Placement Game for active Games for Gatherings the box and divvy them up among the players so everyone completely lling your 5x5 grid, that is, not in the original version are approximately 1.5" x 3.25", the Castles rise 1.5" • Carcassonne Mini Expansions 1 thru 7 • Lewis & Clark: The Expedition - check out Time’s Up! Title Recall. e Last Rites and Love Letter: Premium. to read each month until they’re all read. At which time, you. • Zombie Dice - 8 Zombie- emed knows the names on a few of the cards. en form the NMBR 9 is a puzzling, number-stacking the Whole Family discarding any dominoes during the game, so there high, and the King Meeples are 1" tall. • Carcassonne: e Phantom - A Must- A Unique Racing Game with game play is exactly the same: you’re we start a new list. Newcomers are always welcome! Just Games cards back into one deck. Also decide whether you’re Jason Bush immediately turned the credit for his old Here’s a brief overview of the games in our May Learn to game. Score points by piling is month we're hosting a are no holes in your nished kingdom. Have Mini Expansion for Carcassonne Resource Management just guessing titles instead of people. I read the current book and show up. Any way you build your kingdom, whether you concentrate on endless Tina’s game reviews typically explain how the game plays - going to be using the Blue side or the Yellow side of the games into new games, buying: Tzolk’in: e Mayan Play lineup. number-shaped tiles on top of Kingdomino Organized Play Day • Carcassonne: South Seas - First Stop Around the • Lost Cities - An Expedition for nd Time’s Up! Title Recall easier than Board Game Auction Results Kingdomino's game play is quick and simple, though you forests and sparkling lakes or the highs and lows of mountains and marshes, providing the information you need that’s rarely on the cards. Calendar, Qwixx, Lost Cites, Alien Frontiers and Tanz der Our meetings are full of lively discussions of the current Saturday, May 12 Learn to Play Ticket to Ride each other. Only tiles on at Here Be Books & Games. We World Tw o Time’s Up! Tim prefers the original. Lots of great deals were had at Here Be Books & Games’ Board usually have to make some hard choices both when or a little bit of everything with lots of glittery crowns, it's a fun, puzzly game back of the box. She also makes good use of pictures of All players, passing the same deck around until it’s Hornochsen. book, show & tell of other stu we’ve read recently, the second level and up have some cool promos to give away as prizes to partici- • Century: Spice Road - If You Like • Pandemic - A Game Auction, Saturday, April 21. Ticket to Ride is a cross-country set-collection train placing dominoes and choosing your next domino. How that's over before you want it to be. 2 to 4 players ages 8 and up can play the game and its components. depleted, take turns trying to get their team to guess the Either game you play, time is ticking movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other score points: 1 x number Splendor, You‘ll Love is! Test of Mettle A BIG ank You to all the participants: the sellers who game in which players collect and play matching train pants, including: Dark Castles, Ice Castles, Princess bad do you want to go rst? Maybe that domino with the Kingdomino in about 15 minutes. Younger kids can play, too - they'll just in these interactive, modern 99 lots went up for auction with Tim presiding as geeky stu . It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t on 2nd level, 2 x number on • Cinque Terre If any of the above titles spark your interest, or you see a names on the cards over three rounds: brought Castles, Sand Castles and a Tile Tower. So, it seemed a need a little help calculating their scores at the end. - Pickup & Deliver and Cooperation Charades-style party games that are cards to claim railway routes connecting cities on a 3rd level, etc. Everyone plays the same number tiles in 3-crown mountain tile on it is worth going last. auctioneer, occassionally relieved by Bailey. Several games their games like that month’s book. good time to write a review of this quick, puzzly, tile Produce on the Italian Riviera • Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - A Story game on your inking About List, you need only visit 1st Round, you can say almost anything! Hint: it’s a sooo much fun, they’re our favorite. turn-of-the-century map. Each Ticket to Ride game and the same order until all the tiles have been played. Count Because it's made by Blue Orange Games, the original were still in shrinkwrap. Some lots included a whole stack to the What are we reading in the near future? I’m glad you placement, kingdom-building game by Bruno Cathala, • Coal Baron - Workin’ in the Coal Mine Unfolds e Glass Meeple to be illuminated. good idea to use a gesture, too, if you can think of expansion o ers an exciting new twist, while keeping the your score and highest wins. publisher of Spot It!, you know Kingdomino is family of expansions along with the base game. auction and asked. Here’s a tentative list of the books we’ll likely read published by Blue Orange Games. Goin’ Down Down • Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 - A Fresh one. Your teammates can guess repeatedly, but you friendly and that you can play it with the kids. But is it • Codenames: Pictures - 3 Relaxing Games Time’s Up! can’t pass. Don’t worry if you don’t know who some- e Franklin Mint 3D Chess Set, similar to the one Spock played on the the buyers in the near future – listed alphabetically by the member Sagrada is a beautiful puzzle Kingdomino, takes its name from and Exciting Pandemic Game fun for adults? e answer is a resounding "Yes!" Take a • DC Comics Deck-building Game Series - one is, try to nd other ways to get your team to original Star Trek series, with its gold and silver plated chessmen, sadly got no who bid on who chose them, not in reading order: game of dice drafting and stained its domino game • Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu - Leash the Madness! them. look at some of the Honors Kingdomino has garnered Super Frenemies of America • P.I. - Don your fedoras and threnchcoats, guess. bids. It did generate a lot of laughter though, when Tim accidently said it was • e Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Aubrey) glass window crafting. Draft the pieces featuring since it debuted in 2016: • Dimension - at’s How the Ball gumshoes, mystery is afoot from “Star Wars” and Tina gently corrected that it was “Star Trek.” “Lost Many • e Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay sparkling transparent dice and a terrain tile at 2nd Round, you can only give a single one-word • 2016 Tric Trac Nominee Stacks • Qwixx - To X or Not to X some geek cred there, Tim,” one buyer commented to more laughter. thanks to Smith (Carmen) place them in your window each end. Your clue, but you can gesture all you want and make • 2016 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee • Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & • Railroad Revolution - Specialized Workers Here’s a sampling of some of the games buyers did take home from the Bailey and • Rune Service by J.B. Garner (Diane) matching its pattern. Use Tools goal is to build the sounds. Your teammates only get one guess and you to break the rules and x your • 2017 Spiel des Jahres Winner Clark - A ematic Euro Dice Game Lend Layers of Complexity 4 Issue 60 Here Be Books & Games News May 2018 • Dixit auction: Roz for running the games back and forth between the • Hounded (Iron Druid series) by Kevin Hearne (Erik) same basic gameplay as the original. We’ve played most of window when you get stuck. Meet Objectives to earn richest kingdom lled with waving elds of grain; rich, • 2017 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nomi- Three Completed Kingdoms at Game End - 6+ Games for Fun & Interactive Gatherings • Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on Our Favorite can pass if you want. • El Gaucho - Round ’em Up and Move ’em Out! • Archipelago and solo expansion $45 Gate Room, where the games were on display, and the • Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Jonathan) them, including: Europe, Nordic Countries, USA 1910, points and win! Every game o ers new challenges. dark forests; sparkling lakes; green pastures; a bit of nee the Cursed Island - A Cooperative 3rd Round, you can’t say any • Fiery Dragons - 10 Games for Kids Party Game • Castles of Mad King Ludwig $30 Drgaon Room, where the auction was held. ank you so • Neuromancer by William Gibson (Tim) Rails & Sails, Asia, India, Heart of Africa, Nederlands, and at’s the Learn to Play lineup for May. marsh-land for that homey plu mud smell; towering • 2017 Gouden Ludo Best Family Game Winner Game Filled with Euro Game words at all. Just act it out! Your • Firefly: The Game - A Shiny • Kingdom Builder $17 much Roz, Liz and Diane for pulling games while I made * Note: you have to be attending meetings for your book U.K. & Pennsylvania. So let us teach you how to play mountains rich with ore; and golden crowns sprinkled • 2017 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee Goodness Tim and I used to play a teammates get one guess and you up the invoices and credit slips. e auction’s success was selection to be eligible as the next reading choice. Ticket to Ride! Game Set in the ’Verse • Robo Rally Reboot - e Classic • Kingsburg and To Forge A Realm Expansion $45 We Played Games All Day throughout to prove your abundance - and earn you loads Tim and I really like Kingdomino. It's light, fun, easy to lot of party games... and can pass on cards you don’t want a team e ort. With your kind help, it all went quite • Five Tribes - Journey to the Programmed-Movement Robot- • Mansions of Madness $20 A full list of all the books we’ve already read in Book Club Saturday, May 26 Learn to Play Puzzly Games of points. You score points for each contiguous terrain: teach and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's not all u and Did you know that Tina’s been writing game reviews for cards when we lived in San to waste time on. smoothly. & All Night to Celebrate World of the Arabian Nights Racing Game Gets an Update! • Small World $17 is available on our web site at: number of tiles times the number of crowns in that area. pretty pieces either. You have to make some hard choices. this newsletter since it launched in April 2013? After she Diego. at’s before we Azul is a beautiful puzzly • Flash! - A Real-Time Dice Game • Roll For It! - 4 Small Dice Games At the end of the rst round, after all • Snow Tails $32 We’re considering making this a quarterly event with the TableTop Day! Add 'em all up and that's your score. Highest score wins. Of course you want the dominoes with the crowns on had about 40 under her belt, she started her own blog: were introduced to hbbng.biz/book-club/ game of tile laying for 2-4 The Glass Meeple (theglassmeeple.com). for the Whole Family • Scotland Yard - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow designer board 40 cards have been guessed, review • Tyrants of the Underdark $25 next Board Game Auction in July. Tell us what you think Saturday, April 28 was International Sounds simple enough, but there are a few caveats: them, they multiply your terrain scores, but the dominoes players. Azul invites you, a • Forbidden Desert: irst for Old them with the group to make sure • Wasabi $37 and whether you’d be interested in partcipating. Is quar- So bring some of the Sci Fi & Fantasy books you’ve read TableTop Day, a celebration for all fans of tabletop with the crowns are also the highest valued, meaning you'll Here’s a list of some of the games she’s reviewed: games. You know, tile-laying artist, to embellish • Your kingdom may not exceed a 5x5 tile grid. Survival - e Sequel to Forbidden Island Provides • Splendor - Splendidly Addicting everyone knows who each person is • Willow $5 terly too often? Would just twice a year be better? Let us recently, bring yourself, and be prepared for loads of geeky gaming - a single day where the whole world is brought usually get last pick or next to last pick in the next round modern board games talk 6:00 pm, Friday, May 11 at Here Be Books & the walls of the Royal Palace of together in the common purpose of having fun playing • When placing a domino, at least one end must • 6 nimmt! - A Deceptively Simple Card Game New Mechanics and Challenges to Slake Your irst • Stone Age - A Classic Worker Placement like Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Castles of Burgundy and a before playing Round 2. Yes, there’s a e bidding was fun and lively with lots of good volleys know. when something even better might turn up. The green pasture in the bottom right corner Games! Evora. Take turns drafting games together, face-to-face. Every year since its inception connect to a matching terrain tile. Your starting • 6 nimmt! Junior - 10 Games for Kids for Adventure Game slew of others that have the names of the designers written memory component to the game, too! on many items. Several buyers took home stacks of games scores 3 points (3 tiles x 1 crown), while the lake colored tiles from factories to in 2013, we at Here Be Books & Games have hosted a Castle Tile is considered wild. Another thing I like about Kingdomino is that it scales well on the edge above it scores 9 points (3 tiles x 3 crowns) • Acquire 2016 - A 3D Plastic Reprint of • Get Bit! - 10 Games for Kids • Sushi Go! - A Fresh, Light Quick Snack on the cover like the author of a book. It’s important to listen to and, particu- like Adam Dintleman Learn to Play Board your player board. Score points based on how you place FREE TableTop Day celebration, and this year was no • The turn order each round is determined by who for di erent types of gamers: you can use the variants or the Classic Stock Market Game • Glass Road - Lighter Strategy Fare by Agricola’s • Ticket to Ride - 7 Classic Games at larly, to watch what clues the other seen here with his $120 Despite its debut in 1999, we didn’t discover Time’s Up! Kingdomino Play Day Games - Anytime - at your tiles to decorate the palace. Earn extra points for exception. chose the least not, it's up to you. When playing with young kids, you might want to keep it simple, leaving out the Harmony and • Agricola Revised Edition - How it Designer Never Grow Old teams are giving so you can use them, haul and Liz Yanzer until September 2010 at at Board Game ing in speci c patterns and sets; wasted tiles harm your score. valuable Middle Kingdom rules. With seasoned adults, you can throw in both scoring bonuses for a more challenging game. e Compares to the Original • Grand Austria Hotel - A Dice • Time’s Up! - Our Favorite Party Game too! Saturday, May 19 1pm to 7pm with some of her great HBB&G! In addition to playing games all day and all night, we gave Raleigh, North Carolina. I should say I discovered it, e player with the most points wins. domino in Dynasty variant provides a longer game in which you total the scores of three play-throughs to determine the winner. You • Aton - One of My Favorite Two-Play Selection Euro Game • Tuscany - Expands the World of Viticul- deals shown below. away promos and several games, too. Every attendee ’cause I was the one who played it rst then nally Time’s Up! is hilarious fun. I recom- Kingdomino is a fun, puzzly, tile-placement game the Anytime we’re open you can learn to the previ- can even combine Kingdomino with Queendomino for still more challenges, but that's a topic for another day. Games • Istanbul - A Lesson in Eciency ture in Myriad Ways Century: Spice Road is a gorgeous received a free promo of their choice and an entry in our convinced Tim and our guests to try it one Game Night mend three teams of three players whole family can play in about 15 minutes. Read the full Sellers made out, too. play a new game at Here Be Books & ous • Bohnanza - Growing Beans for Fun & • Jaipur - Send Your Camels to Trade • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - Time & 3D inking fast-paced and addictive game doorprize drawing. Ian McNear, Liz Yanzer, Derrick Kingdomino also plays well with just two players: the rulebook includes a variant in which players build 7x7 tile king- three years later. Tim was hooked then as were a lot of the each or more, but you can play with review later in this newsletter. e three biggest Store Games - or just come in and play! On Pro t • King of New York - Mutant Monsters • Unexploded Cow - Blowing Up Cows for Fun & Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting of spice trading and Seabrook, and Ti a Steppe each won their pick of a game doms and have two meeples with which to choose dominoes each round. other gamers who played Time’s Up! that night. as few as 4 players. ere were only We’re hosting a Kingdomino Organized Play Day Saturday, Credits we issued were the Saturdays when we’re not holding a special event or engine building for 2 to 5 • Bohnanza Card Games & Expansions - Rampage New york Pro t Friday, May 11, 6pm to 8pm from the game table. Mike Wengland won the special I love the bits in Kingdomino: the dominoes are nice and chunky - they're shiny, too. e Castles ere isn’t much to the components of Time’s Up! - just a four of us playing in my rst game of May 19 from 1pm to 7pm. If you don’t know how $336, $257, and $222. Game Night, we’ll post at least three games on the sched- players. Each turn you can round: From Pirates to Fairy Tales • King of Tokyo - A King-of-the-Hill • Valdora - Gorgeous Medieval- Castle Panic Tower 2018 promo and Taylor Rhett won are cute and colorful and who can resist wooden meeples in a new king meeple shape. e box timer; a scorepad; a bunch of double-sided cards featuring Time’s Up! to play, we’ll teach you. If you’re already e lowest was $30 for Reading: Revelation Space by Alastair ule that we’re prepared to teach, usually: take one of four actions: lowest value goes rst, then • Bohnanza: Pirates - Bean Trading on the Dice Game emed Pickup-and-Deliver the special Sagrada TableTop Day Window promo. also has a really nice insert to keep everything organized - always a plus in my book. the names of over 1000 famous people, both ctional and If you prefer guess- familiar with the game, this is your chance to play King- just one game. Reynolds (Zach’s pick) 1. An easy-to-learn and quick-playing casual game. 1) Take a Market card into second lowest, etc. Each domino High Seas • Kingdomino - A Puzzly Tile-Placement Game for the Game with Books ank you to everyone who came in and played games on has a number on its back to is year Blue Orange is releasing a giant-sized Kingdomino for retail. Kingdomino: • BraveRats, aka R - 10 Games for Kids Whole Family real; and a rulebook with a glossary that tells you who all ing the titles of domino and pick up some really cool Kingdomino promos Happy seller Michael e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets your hand for its create, trade • Vegas Showdown - A Classic 2. A medium-level game. TableTop Day. A good time was had by all. It was a fun guide you during setup at the Giant Version was originally created for retailers to use for in-store demos only, but when • Can't Stop - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow Old • La Granja: No Siesta! - e Lighter, Dicier Cousin those people are in case you don’t recognize some of them. books, movies, including: Dark Castle, Ice Castle, Princess Castle, Sand Castle Wengland posted on once a month at Here Be Books & or upgrade ability; 2) Play a card from your hand to Bidding Game of Casino Build- 3. A more complex strategy game. day. beginning of each round. customers clamored for a chance to buy it for themselves, • Carcassonne - e Classic Tile-laying • Las Vegas - Why Didn’t I ink of at? You probably won’t know who some of them are. I sadly television shows, and a Tile Tower. Admission is FREE. Facebook, “I earned Games. We read fantasy and science create, trade or upgrade spices; 3) Ful ll an Order card; 4) ing • One of Kingdomino's variants, Middle Kingdom, Blue Orange decided to produce more for retail. Each domino in Board Game Gets a New Look • Las Vegas: Boulevard - A 12-Module Expansion for know who more of the ctional people are than the real songs, albums, plays, $217.00 from their ction, old and new, including urban If you want to learn one of the scheduled games or Rest, taking all your cards back into your hand. e game • Viticulture - A Game of Growing Kingdomino - A requires you to make your Castle the center of your the Giant Version measures 3.12" x 6.25", the Castles rise a little over 3" • Carcassonne: Hills & Sheep Expansion - Las Vegas ones. musicals, paintings, auction!! Amazing!! Wasn't expecting that!! anks all!!” fantasy and alternate history. Attending something else, just drop by and we’ll teach you how to ends at the end of the round in which a player completes Grapes and Making Wine Puzzly Tile- kingdom: awarding you 10 points if you succeed. high, and the wooden King Meeples are 2" tall! You'll de nitely want e Hills Are Alive with the Sound of • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game - Experience and sculptures Mike’s already put some of his take to good use on Blood members each suggest a book to add to play! You’re also welcome to come by and play games a speci c number of Orders - depends on player count. • Wits & Wagers - 6+ Fun & Inter- To setup the game, divide into teams, pull 40 cards out of • In the Harmony variant you can earn 5 points for a bigger table to play this Great Dane-sized puppy. For comparison: dominoes Baaa-ing and Tie-breaking the Horror of a Zombie Apocalypse instead of people, Rage, Blood Rage: 5-Player Expansion, Valley of the Kings: our reading list. en we pick one book anytime we’re open - even if you don’t need us to teach Most points wins. Placement Game for active Games for Gatherings the box and divvy them up among the players so everyone completely lling your 5x5 grid, that is, not in the original version are approximately 1.5" x 3.25", the Castles rise 1.5" • Carcassonne Mini Expansions 1 thru 7 • Lewis & Clark: The Expedition - check out Time’s Up! Title Recall. e Last Rites and Love Letter: Premium. to read each month until they’re all read. At which time, you. • Zombie Dice - 8 Zombie- emed knows the names on a few of the cards. en form the NMBR 9 is a puzzling, number-stacking the Whole Family discarding any dominoes during the game, so there high, and the King Meeples are 1" tall. • Carcassonne: e Phantom - A Must- A Unique Racing Game with game play is exactly the same: you’re we start a new list. Newcomers are always welcome! Just Games cards back into one deck. Also decide whether you’re Jason Bush immediately turned the credit for his old Here’s a brief overview of the games in our May Learn to game. Score points by piling is month we're hosting a are no holes in your nished kingdom. Have Mini Expansion for Carcassonne Resource Management just guessing titles instead of people. I read the current book and show up. Any way you build your kingdom, whether you concentrate on endless Tina’s game reviews typically explain how the game plays - going to be using the Blue side or the Yellow side of the games into new games, buying: Tzolk’in: e Mayan Play lineup. number-shaped tiles on top of Kingdomino Organized Play Day • Carcassonne: South Seas - First Stop Around the • Lost Cities - An Expedition for nd Time’s Up! Title Recall easier than Board Game Auction Results Kingdomino's game play is quick and simple, though you forests and sparkling lakes or the highs and lows of mountains and marshes, providing the information you need that’s rarely on the cards. Calendar, Qwixx, Lost Cites, Alien Frontiers and Tanz der Our meetings are full of lively discussions of the current Saturday, May 12 Learn to Play Ticket to Ride each other. Only tiles on at Here Be Books & Games. We World Tw o Time’s Up! Tim prefers the original. Lots of great deals were had at Here Be Books & Games’ Board usually have to make some hard choices both when or a little bit of everything with lots of glittery crowns, it's a fun, puzzly game back of the box. She also makes good use of pictures of All players, passing the same deck around until it’s Hornochsen. book, show & tell of other stu we’ve read recently, the second level and up have some cool promos to give away as prizes to partici- • Century: Spice Road - If You Like • Pandemic - A Game Auction, Saturday, April 21. Ticket to Ride is a cross-country set-collection train placing dominoes and choosing your next domino. How that's over before you want it to be. 2 to 4 players ages 8 and up can play the game and its components. depleted, take turns trying to get their team to guess the Either game you play, time is ticking movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other score points: 1 x number Splendor, You‘ll Love is! Test of Mettle A BIG ank You to all the participants: the sellers who game in which players collect and play matching train pants, including: Dark Castles, Ice Castles, Princess bad do you want to go rst? Maybe that domino with the Kingdomino in about 15 minutes. Younger kids can play, too - they'll just in these interactive, modern 99 lots went up for auction with Tim presiding as geeky stu . It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t on 2nd level, 2 x number on • Cinque Terre If any of the above titles spark your interest, or you see a names on the cards over three rounds: brought Castles, Sand Castles and a Tile Tower. So, it seemed a need a little help calculating their scores at the end. - Pickup & Deliver and Cooperation Charades-style party games that are cards to claim railway routes connecting cities on a 3rd level, etc. Everyone plays the same number tiles in 3-crown mountain tile on it is worth going last. auctioneer, occassionally relieved by Bailey. Several games their games like that month’s book. good time to write a review of this quick, puzzly, tile Produce on the Italian Riviera • Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - A Story game on your inking About List, you need only visit 1st Round, you can say almost anything! Hint: it’s a sooo much fun, they’re our favorite. turn-of-the-century map. Each Ticket to Ride game and the same order until all the tiles have been played. Count Because it's made by Blue Orange Games, the original were still in shrinkwrap. Some lots included a whole stack to the What are we reading in the near future? I’m glad you placement, kingdom-building game by Bruno Cathala, • Coal Baron - Workin’ in the Coal Mine Unfolds e Glass Meeple to be illuminated. good idea to use a gesture, too, if you can think of expansion o ers an exciting new twist, while keeping the your score and highest wins. publisher of Spot It!, you know Kingdomino is family Here Be Books & Games Board Game Store & Gaming Salon of expansions along with the base game. auction and asked. Here’s a tentative list of the books we’ll likely read published by Blue Orange Games. Goin’ Down Down • Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 - A Fresh one. Your teammates can guess repeatedly, but you friendly and that you can play it with the kids. But is it • Codenames: Pictures - 3 Relaxing Games Time’s Up! can’t pass. Don’t worry if you don’t know who some- e Franklin Mint 3D Chess Set, similar to the one Spock played on the the buyers in the near future – listed alphabetically by the member Sagrada is a beautiful puzzle Kingdomino, takes its name from • Save up to 20% OFF MSRP on Games! • Free In-Store Gaming in 3 Game Rooms and Exciting Pandemic Game fun for adults? e answer is a resounding "Yes!" Take a • DC Comics Deck-building Game Series - • Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu - Leash the Madness! one is, try to nd other ways to get your team to original Star Trek series, with its gold and silver plated chessmen, sadly got no who bid on who chose them, not in reading order: game of dice drafting and stained its domino game • Board Games, RPGs, & Supplies. • Gaming Events Every Saturday! them. look at some of the Honors Kingdomino has garnered Super Frenemies of America • P.I. - Don your fedoras and threnchcoats, guess. bids. It did generate a lot of laughter though, when Tim accidently said it was • e Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Aubrey) glass window crafting. Draft the pieces featuring since it debuted in 2016: • Friendly, Knowledgeable Staff. • Game Night 1st Saturday Every Month. • Dimension - at’s How the Ball gumshoes, mystery is afoot from “Star Wars” and Tina gently corrected that it was “Star Trek.” “Lost Many • e Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay sparkling transparent dice and a terrain tile at 2nd Round, you can only give a single one-word • 2016 Tric Trac Nominee • Recommendations to suit your tastes. • Game Demos Anytime, just ask. Stacks • Qwixx - To X or Not to X some geek cred there, Tim,” one buyer commented to more laughter. thanks to Smith (Carmen) place them in your window each end. Your clue, but you can gesture all you want and make • 2016 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee • Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & • Railroad Revolution - Specialized Workers Here’s a sampling of some of the games buyers did take home from the Bailey and • Rune Service by J.B. Garner (Diane) matching its pattern. Use Tools goal is to build the • Great customer service! • We’ll teach you how to play! sounds. Your teammates only get one guess and you to break the rules and x your • 2017 Spiel des Jahres Winner Clark - A ematic Euro Dice Game Lend Layers of Complexity 5 Issue 60 Here Be Books & Games News May 2018 auction: Roz for running the games back and forth between the • Hounded (Iron Druid series) by Kevin Hearne (Erik) same basic gameplay as the original. We’ve played most of window when you get stuck. Meet Objectives to earn richest kingdom lled with waving elds of grain; rich, • 2017 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nomi- • Dixit - 6+ Games for Fun & Interactive Gatherings • Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on Our Favorite can pass if you want. • El Gaucho - Round ’em Up and Move ’em Out! • Archipelago and solo expansion $45 Gate Room, where the games were on display, and the • Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Jonathan) them, including: Europe, Nordic Countries, USA 1910, points and win! Every game o ers new challenges. dark forests; sparkling lakes; green pastures; a bit of nee the Cursed Island - A Cooperative 3rd Round, you can’t say any The Glass Meeple • Fiery Dragons - 10 Games for Kids Party Game • Castles of Mad King Ludwig $30 Drgaon Room, where the auction was held. ank you so • Neuromancer by William Gibson (Tim) Rails & Sails, Asia, India, Heart of Africa, Nederlands, and at’s the Learn to Play lineup for May. marsh-land for that homey plu mud smell; towering • 2017 Gouden Ludo Best Family Game Winner Game Filled with Euro Game words at all. Just act it out! Your • Firefly: The Game - A Shiny • Kingdom Builder $17 much Roz, Liz and Diane for pulling games while I made * Note: you have to be attending meetings for your book U.K. & Pennsylvania. So let us teach you how to play mountains rich with ore; and golden crowns sprinkled • 2017 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee Game Reviews by Tina Goodness Tim and I used to play a teammates get one guess and you up the invoices and credit slips. e auction’s success was selection to be eligible as the next reading choice. Ticket to Ride! Game Set in the ’Verse • Robo Rally Reboot - e Classic • Kingsburg and To Forge A Realm Expansion $45 We Played Games All Day throughout to prove your abundance - and earn you loads Tim and I really like Kingdomino. It's light, fun, easy to lot of party games... and can pass on cards you don’t want a team e ort. With your kind help, it all went quite • Five Tribes - Journey to the Programmed-Movement Robot- • Mansions of Madness $20 A full list of all the books we’ve already read in Book Club Saturday, May 26 Learn to Play Puzzly Games of points. You score points for each contiguous terrain: teach and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's not all u and Did you know that Tina’s been writing game reviews for cards when we lived in San to waste time on. smoothly. & All Night to Celebrate World of the Arabian Nights Racing Game Gets an Update! • Small World $17 is available on our web site at: number of tiles times the number of crowns in that area. pretty pieces either. You have to make some hard choices. this newsletter since it launched in April 2013? After she Diego. at’s before we Azul is a beautiful puzzly • Flash! - A Real-Time Dice Game • Roll For It! - 4 Small Dice Games At the end of the rst round, after all • Snow Tails $32 We’re considering making this a quarterly event with the TableTop Day! Add 'em all up and that's your score. Highest score wins. Of course you want the dominoes with the crowns on had about 40 under her belt, she started her own blog: were introduced to hbbng.biz/book-club/ game of tile laying for 2-4 The Glass Meeple (theglassmeeple.com). for the Whole Family • Scotland Yard - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow designer board 40 cards have been guessed, review • Tyrants of the Underdark $25 next Board Game Auction in July. Tell us what you think Saturday, April 28 was International Sounds simple enough, but there are a few caveats: them, they multiply your terrain scores, but the dominoes players. Azul invites you, a • Forbidden Desert: irst for Old them with the group to make sure • Wasabi $37 and whether you’d be interested in partcipating. Is quar- So bring some of the Sci Fi & Fantasy books you’ve read TableTop Day, a celebration for all fans of tabletop with the crowns are also the highest valued, meaning you'll Here’s a list of some of the games she’s reviewed: games. You know, tile-laying artist, to embellish • Your kingdom may not exceed a 5x5 tile grid. Survival - e Sequel to Forbidden Island Provides • Splendor - Splendidly Addicting everyone knows who each person is • Willow $5 terly too often? Would just twice a year be better? Let us recently, bring yourself, and be prepared for loads of geeky gaming - a single day where the whole world is brought usually get last pick or next to last pick in the next round modern board games talk 6:00 pm, Friday, May 11 at Here Be Books & the walls of the Royal Palace of together in the common purpose of having fun playing • When placing a domino, at least one end must • 6 nimmt! - A Deceptively Simple Card Game New Mechanics and Challenges to Slake Your irst • Stone Age - A Classic Worker Placement like Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Castles of Burgundy and a before playing Round 2. Yes, there’s a e bidding was fun and lively with lots of good volleys know. when something even better might turn up. Games! Evora. Take turns drafting games together, face-to-face. Every year since its inception connect to a matching terrain tile. Your starting • 6 nimmt! Junior - 10 Games for Kids for Adventure Game slew of others that have the names of the designers written memory component to the game, too! on many items. Several buyers took home stacks of games colored tiles from factories to in 2013, we at Here Be Books & Games have hosted a Castle Tile is considered wild. Another thing I like about Kingdomino is that it scales well • Acquire 2016 - A 3D Plastic Reprint of • Get Bit! - 10 Games for Kids • Sushi Go! - A Fresh, Light Quick Snack on the cover like the author of a book. It’s important to listen to and, particu- like Adam Dintleman Learn to Play Board your player board. Score points based on how you place FREE TableTop Day celebration, and this year was no • The turn order each round is determined by who for di erent types of gamers: you can use the variants or the Classic Stock Market Game • Glass Road - Lighter Strategy Fare by Agricola’s • Ticket to Ride - 7 Classic Games at larly, to watch what clues the other seen here with his $120 Despite its debut in 1999, we didn’t discover Time’s Up! Kingdomino Play Day Games - Anytime - at your tiles to decorate the palace. Earn extra points for exception. chose the least not, it's up to you. When playing with young kids, you might want to keep it simple, leaving out the Harmony and • Agricola Revised Edition - How it Designer Never Grow Old teams are giving so you can use them, haul and Liz Yanzer until September 2010 at at Board Game ing in speci c patterns and sets; wasted tiles harm your score. valuable Middle Kingdom rules. With seasoned adults, you can throw in both scoring bonuses for a more challenging game. e Compares to the Original • Grand Austria Hotel - A Dice • Time’s Up! - Our Favorite Party Game too! Saturday, May 19 1pm to 7pm with some of her great HBB&G! In addition to playing games all day and all night, we gave Raleigh, North Carolina. I should say I discovered it, e player with the most points wins. domino in Dynasty variant provides a longer game in which you total the scores of three play-throughs to determine the winner. You • Aton - One of My Favorite Two-Play Selection Euro Game • Tuscany - Expands the World of Viticul- deals shown below. away promos and several games, too. Every attendee ’cause I was the one who played it rst then nally Time’s Up! is hilarious fun. I recom- Kingdomino is a fun, puzzly, tile-placement game the Anytime we’re open you can learn to the previ- can even combine Kingdomino with Queendomino for still more challenges, but that's a topic for another day. Games • Istanbul - A Lesson in Eciency ture in Myriad Ways Century: Spice Road is a gorgeous received a free promo of their choice and an entry in our convinced Tim and our guests to try it one Game Night mend three teams of three players whole family can play in about 15 minutes. Read the full Sellers made out, too. play a new game at Here Be Books & ous • Bohnanza - Growing Beans for Fun & • Jaipur - Send Your Camels to Trade • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - Time & 3D inking fast-paced and addictive game doorprize drawing. Ian McNear, Liz Yanzer, Derrick Kingdomino also plays well with just two players: the rulebook includes a variant in which players build 7x7 tile king- three years later. Tim was hooked then as were a lot of the each or more, but you can play with review later in this newsletter. e three biggest Store Games - or just come in and play! On Pro t • King of New York - Mutant Monsters • Unexploded Cow - Blowing Up Cows for Fun & Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting of spice trading and Seabrook, and Ti a Steppe each won their pick of a game doms and have two meeples with which to choose dominoes each round. other gamers who played Time’s Up! that night. as few as 4 players. ere were only We’re hosting a Kingdomino Organized Play Day Saturday, Credits we issued were the Saturdays when we’re not holding a special event or engine building for 2 to 5 • Bohnanza Card Games & Expansions - Rampage New york Pro t Friday, May 11, 6pm to 8pm from the game table. Mike Wengland won the special I love the bits in Kingdomino: the dominoes are nice and chunky - they're shiny, too. e Castles ere isn’t much to the components of Time’s Up! - just a four of us playing in my rst game of May 19 from 1pm to 7pm. If you don’t know how $336, $257, and $222. Game Night, we’ll post at least three games on the sched- players. Each turn you can round: From Pirates to Fairy Tales • King of Tokyo - A King-of-the-Hill • Valdora - Gorgeous Medieval- Castle Panic Tower 2018 promo and Taylor Rhett won are cute and colorful and who can resist wooden meeples in a new king meeple shape. e box timer; a scorepad; a bunch of double-sided cards featuring Time’s Up! to play, we’ll teach you. If you’re already e lowest was $30 for Reading: Revelation Space by Alastair ule that we’re prepared to teach, usually: take one of four actions: lowest value goes rst, then • Bohnanza: Pirates - Bean Trading on the Dice Game emed Pickup-and-Deliver the special Sagrada TableTop Day Window promo. also has a really nice insert to keep everything organized - always a plus in my book. the names of over 1000 famous people, both ctional and If you prefer guess- familiar with the game, this is your chance to play King- just one game. Reynolds (Zach’s pick) 1. An easy-to-learn and quick-playing casual game. 1) Take a Market card into second lowest, etc. Each domino High Seas • Kingdomino - A Puzzly Tile-Placement Game for the Game with Books ank you to everyone who came in and played games on has a number on its back to is year Blue Orange is releasing a giant-sized Kingdomino for retail. Kingdomino: • BraveRats, aka R - 10 Games for Kids Whole Family real; and a rulebook with a glossary that tells you who all ing the titles of domino and pick up some really cool Kingdomino promos Happy seller Michael e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets your hand for its create, trade • Vegas Showdown - A Classic 2. A medium-level game. TableTop Day. A good time was had by all. It was a fun guide you during setup at the Giant Version was originally created for retailers to use for in-store demos only, but when • Can't Stop - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow Old • La Granja: No Siesta! - e Lighter, Dicier Cousin those people are in case you don’t recognize some of them. books, movies, including: Dark Castle, Ice Castle, Princess Castle, Sand Castle Wengland posted on once a month at Here Be Books & or upgrade ability; 2) Play a card from your hand to Bidding Game of Casino Build- 3. A more complex strategy game. day. beginning of each round. customers clamored for a chance to buy it for themselves, • Carcassonne - e Classic Tile-laying • Las Vegas - Why Didn’t I ink of at? You probably won’t know who some of them are. I sadly television shows, and a Tile Tower. Admission is FREE. Facebook, “I earned Games. We read fantasy and science create, trade or upgrade spices; 3) Ful ll an Order card; 4) ing • One of Kingdomino's variants, Middle Kingdom, Blue Orange decided to produce more for retail. Each domino in Board Game Gets a New Look • Las Vegas: Boulevard - A 12-Module Expansion for know who more of the ctional people are than the real songs, albums, plays, $217.00 from their ction, old and new, including urban If you want to learn one of the scheduled games or Rest, taking all your cards back into your hand. e game • Viticulture - A Game of Growing Kingdomino - A requires you to make your Castle the center of your the Giant Version measures 3.12" x 6.25", the Castles rise a little over 3" • Carcassonne: Hills & Sheep Expansion - Las Vegas ones. musicals, paintings, auction!! Amazing!! Wasn't expecting that!! anks all!!” fantasy and alternate history. Attending something else, just drop by and we’ll teach you how to ends at the end of the round in which a player completes Grapes and Making Wine Puzzly Tile- kingdom: awarding you 10 points if you succeed. high, and the wooden King Meeples are 2" tall! You'll de nitely want e Hills Are Alive with the Sound of • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game - Experience and sculptures Mike’s already put some of his take to good use on Blood members each suggest a book to add to play! You’re also welcome to come by and play games a speci c number of Orders - depends on player count. • Wits & Wagers - 6+ Fun & Inter- To setup the game, divide into teams, pull 40 cards out of • In the Harmony variant you can earn 5 points for a bigger table to play this Great Dane-sized puppy. For comparison: dominoes Baaa-ing and Tie-breaking the Horror of a Zombie Apocalypse instead of people, Rage, Blood Rage: 5-Player Expansion, Valley of the Kings: our reading list. en we pick one book anytime we’re open - even if you don’t need us to teach Most points wins. Placement Game for active Games for Gatherings the box and divvy them up among the players so everyone completely lling your 5x5 grid, that is, not in the original version are approximately 1.5" x 3.25", the Castles rise 1.5" • Carcassonne Mini Expansions 1 thru 7 • Lewis & Clark: The Expedition - check out Time’s Up! Title Recall. e Last Rites and Love Letter: Premium. to read each month until they’re all read. At which time, you. • Zombie Dice - 8 Zombie- emed knows the names on a few of the cards. en form the NMBR 9 is a puzzling, number-stacking the Whole Family discarding any dominoes during the game, so there high, and the King Meeples are 1" tall. • Carcassonne: e Phantom - A Must- A Unique Racing Game with game play is exactly the same: you’re we start a new list. Newcomers are always welcome! Just Games cards back into one deck. Also decide whether you’re Jason Bush immediately turned the credit for his old Here’s a brief overview of the games in our May Learn to game. Score points by piling is month we're hosting a are no holes in your nished kingdom. Have Mini Expansion for Carcassonne Resource Management just guessing titles instead of people. I read the current book and show up. Any way you build your kingdom, whether you concentrate on endless Tina’s game reviews typically explain how the game plays - going to be using the Blue side or the Yellow side of the games into new games, buying: Tzolk’in: e Mayan Play lineup. number-shaped tiles on top of Kingdomino Organized Play Day • Carcassonne: South Seas - First Stop Around the • Lost Cities - An Expedition for nd Time’s Up! Title Recall easier than Board Game Auction Results Kingdomino's game play is quick and simple, though you forests and sparkling lakes or the highs and lows of mountains and marshes, providing the information you need that’s rarely on the cards. Calendar, Qwixx, Lost Cites, Alien Frontiers and Tanz der Our meetings are full of lively discussions of the current Saturday, May 12 Learn to Play Ticket to Ride each other. Only tiles on at Here Be Books & Games. We World Tw o Time’s Up! Tim prefers the original. Lots of great deals were had at Here Be Books & Games’ Board usually have to make some hard choices both when or a little bit of everything with lots of glittery crowns, it's a fun, puzzly game back of the box. She also makes good use of pictures of All players, passing the same deck around until it’s Hornochsen. book, show & tell of other stu we’ve read recently, the second level and up have some cool promos to give away as prizes to partici- • Century: Spice Road - If You Like • Pandemic - A Game Auction, Saturday, April 21. Ticket to Ride is a cross-country set-collection train placing dominoes and choosing your next domino. How that's over before you want it to be. 2 to 4 players ages 8 and up can play the game and its components. depleted, take turns trying to get their team to guess the Either game you play, time is ticking movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other score points: 1 x number Splendor, You‘ll Love is! Test of Mettle A BIG ank You to all the participants: the sellers who game in which players collect and play matching train pants, including: Dark Castles, Ice Castles, Princess bad do you want to go rst? Maybe that domino with the Kingdomino in about 15 minutes. Younger kids can play, too - they'll just in these interactive, modern 99 lots went up for auction with Tim presiding as geeky stu . It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t on 2nd level, 2 x number on • Cinque Terre If any of the above titles spark your interest, or you see a names on the cards over three rounds: brought Castles, Sand Castles and a Tile Tower. So, it seemed a need a little help calculating their scores at the end. - Pickup & Deliver and Cooperation Charades-style party games that are cards to claim railway routes connecting cities on a 3rd level, etc. Everyone plays the same number tiles in 3-crown mountain tile on it is worth going last. auctioneer, occassionally relieved by Bailey. Several games their games like that month’s book. good time to write a review of this quick, puzzly, tile Produce on the Italian Riviera • Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - A Story game on your inking About List, you need only visit 1st Round, you can say almost anything! Hint: it’s a sooo much fun, they’re our favorite. turn-of-the-century map. Each Ticket to Ride game and the same order until all the tiles have been played. Count Because it's made by Blue Orange Games, the original were still in shrinkwrap. Some lots included a whole stack to the What are we reading in the near future? I’m glad you placement, kingdom-building game by Bruno Cathala, • Coal Baron - Workin’ in the Coal Mine Unfolds e Glass Meeple to be illuminated. good idea to use a gesture, too, if you can think of expansion o ers an exciting new twist, while keeping the your score and highest wins. publisher of Spot It!, you know Kingdomino is family of expansions along with the base game. auction and asked. Here’s a tentative list of the books we’ll likely read published by Blue Orange Games. Goin’ Down Down • Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 - A Fresh one. Your teammates can guess repeatedly, but you friendly and that you can play it with the kids. But is it • Codenames: Pictures - 3 Relaxing Games Time’s Up! can’t pass. Don’t worry if you don’t know who some- e Franklin Mint 3D Chess Set, similar to the one Spock played on the the buyers in the near future – listed alphabetically by the member Sagrada is a beautiful puzzle Kingdomino, takes its name from and Exciting Pandemic Game fun for adults? e answer is a resounding "Yes!" Take a • DC Comics Deck-building Game Series - one is, try to nd other ways to get your team to original Star Trek series, with its gold and silver plated chessmen, sadly got no who bid on who chose them, not in reading order: game of dice drafting and stained its domino game • Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu - Leash the Madness! them. look at some of the Honors Kingdomino has garnered Super Frenemies of America • P.I. - Don your fedoras and threnchcoats, guess. bids. It did generate a lot of laughter though, when Tim accidently said it was • e Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Aubrey) glass window crafting. Draft the pieces featuring since it debuted in 2016: • Dimension - at’s How the Ball gumshoes, mystery is afoot from “Star Wars” and Tina gently corrected that it was “Star Trek.” “Lost Many • e Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay sparkling transparent dice and a terrain tile at 2nd Round, you can only give a single one-word • 2016 Tric Trac Nominee Stacks • Qwixx - To X or Not to X some geek cred there, Tim,” one buyer commented to more laughter. thanks to Smith (Carmen) place them in your window each end. Your clue, but you can gesture all you want and make • 2016 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee • Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & • Railroad Revolution - Specialized Workers Here’s a sampling of some of the games buyers did take home from the Bailey and • Rune Service by J.B. Garner (Diane) matching its pattern. Use Tools goal is to build the sounds. Your teammates only get one guess and you to break the rules and x your • 2017 Spiel des Jahres Winner Clark - A ematic Euro Dice Game Lend Layers of Complexity 6 Issue 60 Here Be Books & Games News May 2018 auction: Roz for running the games back and forth between the • Hounded (Iron Druid series) by Kevin Hearne (Erik) same basic gameplay as the original. We’ve played most of window when you get stuck. Meet Objectives to earn richest kingdom lled with waving elds of grain; rich, • 2017 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nomi- • Dixit - 6+ Games for Fun & Interactive Gatherings • Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on Our Favorite can pass if you want. • El Gaucho - Round ’em Up and Move ’em Out! • Archipelago and solo expansion $45 Gate Room, where the games were on display, and the • Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Jonathan) them, including: Europe, Nordic Countries, USA 1910, points and win! Every game o ers new challenges. dark forests; sparkling lakes; green pastures; a bit of nee the Cursed Island - A Cooperative 3rd Round, you can’t say any • Fiery Dragons - 10 Games for Kids Party Game • Castles of Mad King Ludwig $30 Drgaon Room, where the auction was held. ank you so • Neuromancer by William Gibson (Tim) Rails & Sails, Asia, India, Heart of Africa, Nederlands, and at’s the Learn to Play lineup for May. marsh-land for that homey plu mud smell; towering • 2017 Gouden Ludo Best Family Game Winner Game Filled with Euro Game words at all. Just act it out! Your • Firefly: The Game - A Shiny • Kingdom Builder $17 much Roz, Liz and Diane for pulling games while I made * Note: you have to be attending meetings for your book U.K. & Pennsylvania. So let us teach you how to play mountains rich with ore; and golden crowns sprinkled • 2017 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee Goodness Tim and I used to play a teammates get one guess and you up the invoices and credit slips. e auction’s success was selection to be eligible as the next reading choice. Ticket to Ride! Game Set in the ’Verse • Robo Rally Reboot - e Classic • Kingsburg and To Forge A Realm Expansion $45 We Played Games All Day throughout to prove your abundance - and earn you loads Tim and I really like Kingdomino. It's light, fun, easy to lot of party games... and can pass on cards you don’t want a team e ort. With your kind help, it all went quite • Five Tribes - Journey to the Programmed-Movement Robot- • Mansions of Madness $20 A full list of all the books we’ve already read in Book Club Saturday, May 26 Learn to Play Puzzly Games of points. You score points for each contiguous terrain: teach and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's not all u and Did you know that Tina’s been writing game reviews for cards when we lived in San to waste time on. smoothly. & All Night to Celebrate World of the Arabian Nights Racing Game Gets an Update! • Small World $17 is available on our web site at: number of tiles times the number of crowns in that area. pretty pieces either. You have to make some hard choices. this newsletter since it launched in April 2013? After she Diego. at’s before we Azul is a beautiful puzzly • Flash! - A Real-Time Dice Game • Roll For It! - 4 Small Dice Games At the end of the rst round, after all • Snow Tails $32 We’re considering making this a quarterly event with the TableTop Day! Add 'em all up and that's your score. Highest score wins. Of course you want the dominoes with the crowns on had about 40 under her belt, she started her own blog: were introduced to hbbng.biz/book-club/ game of tile laying for 2-4 The Glass Meeple (theglassmeeple.com). for the Whole Family • Scotland Yard - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow designer board 40 cards have been guessed, review • Tyrants of the Underdark $25 next Board Game Auction in July. Tell us what you think Saturday, April 28 was International Sounds simple enough, but there are a few caveats: them, they multiply your terrain scores, but the dominoes players. Azul invites you, a • Forbidden Desert: irst for Old them with the group to make sure • Wasabi $37 and whether you’d be interested in partcipating. Is quar- So bring some of the Sci Fi & Fantasy books you’ve read TableTop Day, a celebration for all fans of tabletop with the crowns are also the highest valued, meaning you'll Here’s a list of some of the games she’s reviewed: games. You know, tile-laying artist, to embellish • Your kingdom may not exceed a 5x5 tile grid. Survival - e Sequel to Forbidden Island Provides • Splendor - Splendidly Addicting everyone knows who each person is • Willow $5 terly too often? Would just twice a year be better? Let us recently, bring yourself, and be prepared for loads of geeky gaming - a single day where the whole world is brought usually get last pick or next to last pick in the next round modern board games talk 6:00 pm, Friday, May 11 at Here Be Books & the walls of the Royal Palace of together in the common purpose of having fun playing • When placing a domino, at least one end must • 6 nimmt! - A Deceptively Simple Card Game New Mechanics and Challenges to Slake Your irst • Stone Age - A Classic Worker Placement like Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Castles of Burgundy and a before playing Round 2. Yes, there’s a e bidding was fun and lively with lots of good volleys know. when something even better might turn up. Games! Evora. Take turns drafting games together, face-to-face. Every year since its inception connect to a matching terrain tile. Your starting • 6 nimmt! Junior - 10 Games for Kids for Adventure Game slew of others that have the names of the designers written memory component to the game, too! on many items. Several buyers took home stacks of games colored tiles from factories to in 2013, we at Here Be Books & Games have hosted a Castle Tile is considered wild. Another thing I like about Kingdomino is that it scales well • Acquire 2016 - A 3D Plastic Reprint of • Get Bit! - 10 Games for Kids • Sushi Go! - A Fresh, Light Quick Snack on the cover like the author of a book. It’s important to listen to and, particu- like Adam Dintleman Learn to Play Board your player board. Score points based on how you place FREE TableTop Day celebration, and this year was no • The turn order each round is determined by who for di erent types of gamers: you can use the variants or the Classic Stock Market Game • Glass Road - Lighter Strategy Fare by Agricola’s • Ticket to Ride - 7 Classic Games at larly, to watch what clues the other seen here with his $120 Despite its debut in 1999, we didn’t discover Time’s Up! Kingdomino Play Day Games - Anytime - at your tiles to decorate the palace. Earn extra points for exception. chose the least not, it's up to you. When playing with young kids, you might want to keep it simple, leaving out the Harmony and • Agricola Revised Edition - How it Designer Never Grow Old teams are giving so you can use them, haul and Liz Yanzer until September 2010 at at Board Game ing in speci c patterns and sets; wasted tiles harm your score. valuable Middle Kingdom rules. With seasoned adults, you can throw in both scoring bonuses for a more challenging game. e Compares to the Original • Grand Austria Hotel - A Dice • Time’s Up! - Our Favorite Party Game too! Saturday, May 19 1pm to 7pm with some of her great HBB&G! In addition to playing games all day and all night, we gave Raleigh, North Carolina. I should say I discovered it, e player with the most points wins. domino in Dynasty variant provides a longer game in which you total the scores of three play-throughs to determine the winner. You • Aton - One of My Favorite Two-Play Selection Euro Game • Tuscany - Expands the World of Viticul- deals shown below. away promos and several games, too. Every attendee ’cause I was the one who played it rst then nally Time’s Up! is hilarious fun. I recom- Kingdomino is a fun, puzzly, tile-placement game the Anytime we’re open you can learn to the previ- can even combine Kingdomino with Queendomino for still more challenges, but that's a topic for another day. Games • Istanbul - A Lesson in Eciency ture in Myriad Ways Century: Spice Road is a gorgeous received a free promo of their choice and an entry in our convinced Tim and our guests to try it one Game Night mend three teams of three players whole family can play in about 15 minutes. Read the full Sellers made out, too. play a new game at Here Be Books & ous • Bohnanza - Growing Beans for Fun & • Jaipur - Send Your Camels to Trade • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - Time & 3D inking fast-paced and addictive game doorprize drawing. Ian McNear, Liz Yanzer, Derrick Kingdomino also plays well with just two players: the rulebook includes a variant in which players build 7x7 tile king- three years later. Tim was hooked then as were a lot of the each or more, but you can play with review later in this newsletter. e three biggest Store Games - or just come in and play! On Pro t • King of New York - Mutant Monsters • Unexploded Cow - Blowing Up Cows for Fun & Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting of spice trading and Seabrook, and Ti a Steppe each won their pick of a game doms and have two meeples with which to choose dominoes each round. other gamers who played Time’s Up! that night. as few as 4 players. ere were only We’re hosting a Kingdomino Organized Play Day Saturday, Credits we issued were the Saturdays when we’re not holding a special event or engine building for 2 to 5 • Bohnanza Card Games & Expansions - Rampage New york Pro t Friday, May 11, 6pm to 8pm from the game table. Mike Wengland won the special I love the bits in Kingdomino: the dominoes are nice and chunky - they're shiny, too. e Castles ere isn’t much to the components of Time’s Up! - just a four of us playing in my rst game of May 19 from 1pm to 7pm. If you don’t know how $336, $257, and $222. Game Night, we’ll post at least three games on the sched- players. Each turn you can round: From Pirates to Fairy Tales • King of Tokyo - A King-of-the-Hill • Valdora - Gorgeous Medieval- Castle Panic Tower 2018 promo and Taylor Rhett won are cute and colorful and who can resist wooden meeples in a new king meeple shape. e box timer; a scorepad; a bunch of double-sided cards featuring Time’s Up! to play, we’ll teach you. If you’re already e lowest was $30 for Reading: Revelation Space by Alastair ule that we’re prepared to teach, usually: take one of four actions: lowest value goes rst, then • Bohnanza: Pirates - Bean Trading on the Dice Game emed Pickup-and-Deliver the special Sagrada TableTop Day Window promo. also has a really nice insert to keep everything organized - always a plus in my book. the names of over 1000 famous people, both ctional and If you prefer guess- familiar with the game, this is your chance to play King- just one game. Reynolds (Zach’s pick) 1. An easy-to-learn and quick-playing casual game. 1) Take a Market card into second lowest, etc. Each domino High Seas • Kingdomino - A Puzzly Tile-Placement Game for the Game with Books ank you to everyone who came in and played games on has a number on its back to is year Blue Orange is releasing a giant-sized Kingdomino for retail. Kingdomino: • BraveRats, aka R - 10 Games for Kids Whole Family real; and a rulebook with a glossary that tells you who all ing the titles of domino and pick up some really cool Kingdomino promos Happy seller Michael e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets your hand for its create, trade • Vegas Showdown - A Classic 2. A medium-level game. TableTop Day. A good time was had by all. It was a fun guide you during setup at the Giant Version was originally created for retailers to use for in-store demos only, but when • Can't Stop - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow Old • La Granja: No Siesta! - e Lighter, Dicier Cousin those people are in case you don’t recognize some of them. books, movies, including: Dark Castle, Ice Castle, Princess Castle, Sand Castle Wengland posted on once a month at Here Be Books & or upgrade ability; 2) Play a card from your hand to Bidding Game of Casino Build- 3. A more complex strategy game. day. beginning of each round. customers clamored for a chance to buy it for themselves, • Carcassonne - e Classic Tile-laying • Las Vegas - Why Didn’t I ink of at? You probably won’t know who some of them are. I sadly television shows, and a Tile Tower. Admission is FREE. Facebook, “I earned Games. We read fantasy and science create, trade or upgrade spices; 3) Ful ll an Order card; 4) ing • One of Kingdomino's variants, Middle Kingdom, Blue Orange decided to produce more for retail. Each domino in Board Game Gets a New Look • Las Vegas: Boulevard - A 12-Module Expansion for know who more of the ctional people are than the real songs, albums, plays, $217.00 from their ction, old and new, including urban If you want to learn one of the scheduled games or Rest, taking all your cards back into your hand. e game • Viticulture - A Game of Growing Kingdomino - A requires you to make your Castle the center of your the Giant Version measures 3.12" x 6.25", the Castles rise a little over 3" • Carcassonne: Hills & Sheep Expansion - Las Vegas ones. musicals, paintings, auction!! Amazing!! Wasn't expecting that!! anks all!!” fantasy and alternate history. Attending something else, just drop by and we’ll teach you how to ends at the end of the round in which a player completes Grapes and Making Wine Puzzly Tile- kingdom: awarding you 10 points if you succeed. high, and the wooden King Meeples are 2" tall! You'll de nitely want e Hills Are Alive with the Sound of • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game - Experience and sculptures Mike’s already put some of his take to good use on Blood members each suggest a book to add to play! You’re also welcome to come by and play games a speci c number of Orders - depends on player count. • Wits & Wagers - 6+ Fun & Inter- To setup the game, divide into teams, pull 40 cards out of • In the Harmony variant you can earn 5 points for a bigger table to play this Great Dane-sized puppy. For comparison: dominoes Baaa-ing and Tie-breaking the Horror of a Zombie Apocalypse instead of people, Rage, Blood Rage: 5-Player Expansion, Valley of the Kings: our reading list. en we pick one book anytime we’re open - even if you don’t need us to teach Most points wins. Placement Game for active Games for Gatherings the box and divvy them up among the players so everyone completely lling your 5x5 grid, that is, not in the original version are approximately 1.5" x 3.25", the Castles rise 1.5" • Carcassonne Mini Expansions 1 thru 7 • Lewis & Clark: The Expedition - check out Time’s Up! Title Recall. e Last Rites and Love Letter: Premium. to read each month until they’re all read. At which time, you. • Zombie Dice - 8 Zombie- emed knows the names on a few of the cards. en form the NMBR 9 is a puzzling, number-stacking the Whole Family discarding any dominoes during the game, so there high, and the King Meeples are 1" tall. • Carcassonne: e Phantom - A Must- A Unique Racing Game with game play is exactly the same: you’re we start a new list. Newcomers are always welcome! Just Games cards back into one deck. Also decide whether you’re Jason Bush immediately turned the credit for his old Here’s a brief overview of the games in our May Learn to game. Score points by piling is month we're hosting a are no holes in your nished kingdom. Have Mini Expansion for Carcassonne Resource Management just guessing titles instead of people. I read the current book and show up. Any way you build your kingdom, whether you concentrate on endless Tina’s game reviews typically explain how the game plays - going to be using the Blue side or the Yellow side of the games into new games, buying: Tzolk’in: e Mayan Play lineup. number-shaped tiles on top of Kingdomino Organized Play Day • Carcassonne: South Seas - First Stop Around the • Lost Cities - An Expedition for nd Time’s Up! Title Recall easier than Board Game Auction Results Kingdomino's game play is quick and simple, though you forests and sparkling lakes or the highs and lows of mountains and marshes, providing the information you need that’s rarely on the cards. Calendar, Qwixx, Lost Cites, Alien Frontiers and Tanz der Our meetings are full of lively discussions of the current Saturday, May 12 Learn to Play Ticket to Ride each other. Only tiles on at Here Be Books & Games. We World Tw o Time’s Up! Tim prefers the original. Lots of great deals were had at Here Be Books & Games’ Board usually have to make some hard choices both when or a little bit of everything with lots of glittery crowns, it's a fun, puzzly game back of the box. She also makes good use of pictures of All players, passing the same deck around until it’s Hornochsen. book, show & tell of other stu we’ve read recently, the second level and up • Century: Spice Road - If You Like • Pandemic - A Ticket to Ride is a cross-country set-collection train have some cool promos to give away as prizes to partici- placing dominoes and choosing your next domino. How that's over before you want it to be. 2 to 4 players ages 8 and up can play Either game you play, time is ticking Game Auction, Saturday, April 21. movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other score points: 1 x number the game and its components. depleted, take turns trying to get their team to guess the A BIG ank You to all the participants: the sellers who pants, including: Dark Castles, Ice Castles, Princess Kingdomino Splendor, You‘ll Love is! Test of Mettle in these interactive, modern game in which players collect and play matching train on 2nd level, 2 x number on bad do you want to go rst? Maybe that domino with the in about 15 minutes. Younger kids can play, too - they'll just names on the cards over three rounds: 99 lots went up for auction with Tim presiding as brought geeky stu . It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t Castles, Sand Castles and a Tile Tower. So, it seemed a • Cinque Terre - Pickup & Deliver and Cooperation If any of the above titles spark your interest, or you see a Charades-style party games that are cards to claim railway routes connecting cities on a 3rd level, etc. Everyone plays the same number tiles in 3-crown mountain tile on it is worth going last. need a little help calculating their scores at the end. auctioneer, occassionally relieved by Bailey. Several games their games like that month’s book. good time to write a review of this quick, puzzly, tile Produce on the Italian Riviera • Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - A Story game on your inking About List, you need only visit 1st Round, you can say almost anything! Hint: it’s a sooo much fun, they’re our favorite. turn-of-the-century map. Each Ticket to Ride game and the same order until all the tiles have been played. Count Because it's made by Blue Orange Games, the original were still in shrinkwrap. Some lots included a whole stack to the What are we reading in the near future? I’m glad you placement, kingdom-building game by Bruno Cathala, • Coal Baron - Workin’ in the Coal Mine Unfolds e Glass Meeple to be illuminated. good idea to use a gesture, too, if you can think of expansion o ers an exciting new twist, while keeping the your score and highest wins. publisher of Spot It!, you know Kingdomino is family of expansions along with the base game. auction and asked. Here’s a tentative list of the books we’ll likely read published by Blue Orange Games. Goin’ Down Down • Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 - A Fresh one. Your teammates can guess repeatedly, but you friendly and that you can play it with the kids. But is it • Codenames: Pictures - 3 Relaxing Games Time’s Up! can’t pass. Don’t worry if you don’t know who some- e Franklin Mint 3D Chess Set, similar to the one Spock played on the the buyers in the near future – listed alphabetically by the member Sagrada is a beautiful puzzle Kingdomino, takes its name from and Exciting Pandemic Game fun for adults? e answer is a resounding "Yes!" Take a • DC Comics Deck-building Game Series - one is, try to nd other ways to get your team to original Star Trek series, with its gold and silver plated chessmen, sadly got no who bid on who chose them, not in reading order: game of dice drafting and stained its domino game • Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu - Leash the Madness! them. look at some of the Honors Kingdomino has garnered Super Frenemies of America • P.I. - Don your fedoras and threnchcoats, guess. bids. It did generate a lot of laughter though, when Tim accidently said it was • e Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Aubrey) glass window crafting. Draft the pieces featuring since it debuted in 2016: • Dimension - at’s How the Ball gumshoes, mystery is afoot The Glass Meeple from “Star Wars” and Tina gently corrected that it was “Star Trek.” “Lost Many • e Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay sparkling transparent dice and a terrain tile at 2nd Round, you can only give a single one-word • 2016 Tric Trac Nominee Stacks • Qwixx - To X or Not to X Game Reviews by Tina some geek cred there, Tim,” one buyer commented to more laughter. thanks to Smith (Carmen) place them in your window each end. Your clue, but you can gesture all you want and make • 2016 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee • Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & • Railroad Revolution - Specialized Workers Here’s a sampling of some of the games buyers did take home from the Bailey and • Rune Service by J.B. Garner (Diane) matching its pattern. Use Tools goal is to build the www.theglassmeeple.com sounds. Your teammates only get one guess and you to break the rules and x your • 2017 Spiel des Jahres Winner Clark - A ematic Euro Dice Game Lend Layers of Complexity 7 Issue 60 Here Be Books & Games News May 2018 auction: Roz for running the games back and forth between the • Hounded (Iron Druid series) by Kevin Hearne (Erik) same basic gameplay as the original. We’ve played most of window when you get stuck. Meet Objectives to earn richest kingdom lled with waving elds of grain; rich, • 2017 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nomi- • Dixit - 6+ Games for Fun & Interactive Gatherings • Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on Our Favorite can pass if you want. • El Gaucho - Round ’em Up and Move ’em Out! New Arrivals! Back in Stock! • Archipelago and solo expansion $45 Gate Room, where the games were on display, and the • Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Jonathan) them, including: Europe, Nordic Countries, USA 1910, points and win! Every game o ers new challenges. dark forests; sparkling lakes; green pastures; a bit of nee the Cursed Island - A Cooperative 3rd Round, you can’t say any • Fiery Dragons - 10 Games for Kids Party Game • Castles of Mad King Ludwig $30 Drgaon Room, where the auction was held. ank you so • Neuromancer by William Gibson (Tim) Rails & Sails, Asia, India, Heart of Africa, Nederlands, and at’s the Learn to Play lineup for May. marsh-land for that homey plu mud smell; towering • 2017 Gouden Ludo Best Family Game Winner Game Filled with Euro Game words at all. Just act it out! Your Axis & Allies: Anniversary Ed Azul • Firefly: The Game - A Shiny • Kingdom Builder $17 much Roz, Liz and Diane for pulling games while I made * Note: you have to be attending meetings for your book U.K. & Pennsylvania. So let us teach you how to play mountains rich with ore; and golden crowns sprinkled • 2017 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee Goodness Tim and I used to play a teammates get one guess and you Blood Rage Carcassonne: South Seas up the invoices and credit slips. e auction’s success was selection to be eligible as the next reading choice. Ticket to Ride! Game Set in the ’Verse • Robo Rally Reboot - e Classic lot of party games... and • Kingsburg and To Forge A Realm Expansion $45 We Played Games All Day throughout to prove your abundance - and earn you loads Tim and I really like Kingdomino. It's light, fun, easy to can pass on cards you don’t want Bohnanza: e Duel Carcassonne: e Tower a team e ort. With your kind help, it all went quite • Five Tribes - Journey to the Programmed-Movement Robot- • Mansions of Madness $20 A full list of all the books we’ve already read in Book Club Saturday, May 26 Learn to Play Puzzly Games of points. You score points for each contiguous terrain: teach and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's not all u and Did you know that Tina’s been writing game reviews for cards when we lived in San to waste time on. smoothly. & All Night to Celebrate World of the Arabian Nights Racing Game Gets an Update! e Bottle Imp Catan Scenarios: Helpers of • Small World $17 is available on our web site at: number of tiles times the number of crowns in that area. pretty pieces either. You have to make some hard choices. this newsletter since it launched in April 2013? After she Diego. at’s before we Azul is a beautiful puzzly • Flash! - A Real-Time Dice Game • Roll For It! - 4 Small Dice Games At the end of the rst round, after all Century: Golem Edition Catan • Snow Tails $32 We’re considering making this a quarterly event with the TableTop Day! Add 'em all up and that's your score. Highest score wins. Of course you want the dominoes with the crowns on had about 40 under her belt, she started her own blog: were introduced to hbbng.biz/book-club/ game of tile laying for 2-4 The Glass Meeple (theglassmeeple.com). for the Whole Family • Scotland Yard - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow designer board 40 cards have been guessed, review Codenames: Disney • Tyrants of the Underdark $25 next Board Game Auction in July. Tell us what you think Saturday, April 28 was International Sounds simple enough, but there are a few caveats: them, they multiply your terrain scores, but the dominoes Clans of Caledonia players. Azul invites you, a • Forbidden Desert: irst for Old them with the group to make sure • Wasabi $37 and whether you’d be interested in partcipating. Is quar- So bring some of the Sci Fi & Fantasy books you’ve read TableTop Day, a celebration for all fans of tabletop with the crowns are also the highest valued, meaning you'll Here’s a list of some of the games she’s reviewed: games. You know, Concordia: Britannia & Codenames: Pictures tile-laying artist, to embellish • Your kingdom may not exceed a 5x5 tile grid. Survival - e Sequel to Forbidden Island Provides • Splendor - Splendidly Addicting modern board games everyone knows who each person is • Willow $5 terly too often? Would just twice a year be better? Let us recently, bring yourself, and be prepared for loads of geeky gaming - a single day where the whole world is brought usually get last pick or next to last pick in the next round Germania Coup talk 6:00 pm, Friday, May 11 at Here Be Books & the walls of the Royal Palace of together in the common purpose of having fun playing • When placing a domino, at least one end must • 6 nimmt! - A Deceptively Simple Card Game New Mechanics and Challenges to Slake Your irst • Stone Age - A Classic Worker Placement like Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Castles of Burgundy and a before playing Round 2. Yes, there’s a e bidding was fun and lively with lots of good volleys know. when something even better might turn up. Games! Evora. Take turns drafting games together, face-to-face. Every year since its inception connect to a matching terrain tile. Your starting • 6 nimmt! Junior - 10 Games for Kids for Adventure Game slew of others that have the names of the designers written memory component to the game, too! Ice Cool Doctor Who Fluxx on many items. Several buyers took home stacks of games colored tiles from factories to in 2013, we at Here Be Books & Games have hosted a Castle Tile is considered wild. Another thing I like about Kingdomino is that it scales well • Acquire 2016 - A 3D Plastic Reprint of • Get Bit! - 10 Games for Kids • Sushi Go! - A Fresh, Light Quick Snack on the cover like the author of a book. It’s important to listen to and, particu- Guilds of London Friday like Adam Dintleman Learn to Play Board your player board. Score points based on how you place FREE TableTop Day celebration, and this year was no • The turn order each round is determined by who for di erent types of gamers: you can use the variants or the Classic Stock Market Game • Glass Road - Lighter Strategy Fare by Agricola’s • Ticket to Ride - 7 Classic Games at larly, to watch what clues the other seen here with his $120 Despite its debut in 1999, we didn’t discover Time’s Up! Magic Maze Gaia Project Kingdomino Play Day Games - Anytime - at your tiles to decorate the palace. Earn extra points for exception. chose the least not, it's up to you. When playing with young kids, you might want to keep it simple, leaving out the Harmony and • Agricola Revised Edition - How it Designer Never Grow Old teams are giving so you can use them, haul and Liz Yanzer until September 2010 at at Board Game ing in Modern Art (new edition) Jaipur speci c patterns and sets; wasted tiles harm your score. valuable Middle Kingdom rules. With seasoned adults, you can throw in both scoring bonuses for a more challenging game. e Compares to the Original • Grand Austria Hotel - A Dice • Time’s Up! - Our Favorite Party Game too! Saturday, May 19 1pm to 7pm with some of her great HBB&G! In addition to playing games all day and all night, we gave Raleigh, North Carolina. I should say I discovered it, e player with the most points wins. domino in Dynasty variant provides a longer game in which you total the scores of three play-throughs to determine the winner. You • Aton - One of My Favorite Two-Play Selection Euro Game • Tuscany - Expands the World of Viticul- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Lost Cities deals shown below. away promos and several games, too. Every attendee ’cause I was the one who played it rst then nally Time’s Up! is hilarious fun. I recom- Kingdomino is a fun, puzzly, tile-placement game the Anytime we’re open you can learn to the previ- can even combine Kingdomino with Queendomino for still more challenges, but that's a topic for another day. Games • Istanbul - A Lesson in Eciency ture in Myriad Ways Detective: Carlton House & Red Dragon Inn: Battle for Century: Spice Road is a gorgeous received a free promo of their choice and an entry in our convinced Tim and our guests to try it one Game Night mend three teams of three players whole family can play in about 15 minutes. Read the full Sellers made out, too. play a new game at Here Be Books & ous • Bohnanza - Growing Beans for Fun & • Jaipur - Send Your Camels to Trade • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - Time & 3D inking Queen’s Park Greyport fast-paced and addictive game doorprize drawing. Ian McNear, Liz Yanzer, Derrick Kingdomino also plays well with just two players: the rulebook includes a variant in which players build 7x7 tile king- three years later. Tim was hooked then as were a lot of the each or more, but you can play with review later in this newsletter. e three biggest Store Games - or just come in and play! On Pro t • King of New York - Mutant Monsters • Unexploded Cow - Blowing Up Cows for Fun & Voyages of Marco Polo: Agents Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting of spice trading and Seabrook, and Ti a Steppe each won their pick of a game doms and have two meeples with which to choose dominoes each round. other gamers who played Time’s Up! that night. as few as 4 players. ere were only Santorini We’re hosting a Kingdomino Organized Play Day Saturday, Credits we issued were the Saturdays when we’re not holding a special event or engine building for 2 to 5 • Bohnanza Card Games & Expansions - Rampage New york Pro t of Venice Friday, May 11, 6pm to 8pm from the game table. Mike Wengland won the special I love the bits in Kingdomino: the dominoes are nice and chunky - they're shiny, too. e Castles ere isn’t much to the components of Time’s Up! - just a four of us playing in my rst game of Smash Up: at 70s Expansion May 19 from 1pm to 7pm. If you don’t know how $336, $257, and $222. Game Night, we’ll post at least three games on the sched- players. Each turn you can round: From Pirates to Fairy Tales • King of Tokyo - A King-of-the-Hill • Valdora - Gorgeous Medieval- Castle Panic Tower 2018 promo and Taylor Rhett won are cute and colorful and who can resist wooden meeples in a new king meeple shape. e box timer; a scorepad; a bunch of double-sided cards featuring Time’s Up! Sushi Go Party! to play, we’ll teach you. If you’re already e lowest was $30 for Reading: Revelation Space by Alastair ule that we’re prepared to teach, usually: take one of four actions: lowest value goes rst, then • Bohnanza: Pirates - Bean Trading on the Dice Game emed Pickup-and-Deliver the special Sagrada TableTop Day Window promo. also has a really nice insert to keep everything organized - always a plus in my book. the names of over 1000 famous people, both ctional and If you prefer guess- familiar with the game, this is your chance to play King- just one game. Reynolds (Zach’s pick) 1. An easy-to-learn and quick-playing casual game. 1) Take a Market card into second lowest, etc. Each domino High Seas • Kingdomino - A Puzzly Tile-Placement Game for the Game with Books Ticket to Ride: Nordic ank you to everyone who came in and played games on has a number on its back to is year Blue Orange is releasing a giant-sized Kingdomino for retail. Kingdomino: • BraveRats, aka R - 10 Games for Kids Whole Family real; and a rulebook with a glossary that tells you who all ing the titles of Countries domino and pick up some really cool Kingdomino promos Happy seller Michael e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets your hand for its create, trade • Vegas Showdown - A Classic 2. A medium-level game. TableTop Day. A good time was had by all. It was a fun guide you during setup at the Giant Version was originally created for retailers to use for in-store demos only, but when • Can't Stop - 7 Classic Games at Never Grow Old • La Granja: No Siesta! - e Lighter, Dicier Cousin those people are in case you don’t recognize some of them. books, movies, including: Dark Castle, Ice Castle, Princess Castle, Sand Castle Wengland posted on once a month at Here Be Books & or upgrade ability; 2) Play a card from your hand to Bidding Game of Casino Build- game library Troyes 3. A more complex strategy game. day. beginning of each round. customers clamored for a chance to buy it for themselves, • Carcassonne - e Classic Tile-laying • Las Vegas - Why Didn’t I ink of at? You probably won’t know who some of them are. I sadly television shows, and a Tile Tower. Admission is FREE. Facebook, “I earned Games. We read fantasy and science create, trade or upgrade spices; 3) Ful ll an Order card; 4) ing Ultimate Werewolf Deluxe Ed. • One of Kingdomino's variants, Middle Kingdom, Blue Orange decided to produce more for retail. Each domino in Board Game Gets a New Look • Las Vegas: Boulevard - A 12-Module Expansion for know who more of the ctional people are than the real songs, albums, plays, additions $217.00 from their ction, old and new, including urban If you want to learn one of the scheduled games or Rest, taking all your cards back into your hand. e game Kingdomino - A • Viticulture - A Game of Growing requires you to make your Castle the center of your the Giant Version measures 3.12" x 6.25", the Castles rise a little over 3" • Carcassonne: Hills & Sheep Expansion - Las Vegas ones. musicals, paintings, Blood Rage Wits & Wagers auction!! Amazing!! Wasn't expecting that!! anks all!!” fantasy and alternate history. Attending something else, just drop by and we’ll teach you how to ends at the end of the round in which a player completes Grapes and Making Wine Puzzly Tile- kingdom: awarding you 10 points if you succeed. high, and the wooden King Meeples are 2" tall! You'll de nitely want e Hills Are Alive with the Sound of • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game - Experience and sculptures Mike’s already put some of his take to good use on Blood members each suggest a book to add to play! You’re also welcome to come by and play games a speci c number of Orders - depends on player count. • Wits & Wagers - 6+ Fun & Inter- To setup the game, divide into teams, pull 40 cards out of Bohnanza: e Duel • In the Harmony variant you can earn 5 points for a bigger table to play this Great Dane-sized puppy. For comparison: dominoes Baaa-ing and Tie-breaking the Horror of a Zombie Apocalypse instead of people, Rage, Blood Rage: 5-Player Expansion, Valley of the Kings: our reading list. en we pick one book anytime we’re open - even if you don’t need us to teach Most points wins. Placement Game for active Games for Gatherings the box and divvy them up among the players so everyone Charterstone completely lling your 5x5 grid, that is, not in the original version are approximately 1.5" x 3.25", the Castles rise 1.5" • Carcassonne Mini Expansions 1 thru 7 • Lewis & Clark: The Expedition - check out Time’s Up! Title Recall. e Last Rites and Love Letter: Premium. to read each month until they’re all read. At which time, you. • Zombie Dice - 8 Zombie- emed knows the names on a few of the cards. en form the NMBR 9 is a puzzling, number-stacking the Whole Family discarding any dominoes during the game, so there high, and the King Meeples are 1" tall. • Carcassonne: e Phantom - A Must- A Unique Racing Game with game play is exactly the same: you’re Cosmic Encounter we start a new list. Newcomers are always welcome! Just Games cards back into one deck. Also decide whether you’re Jason Bush immediately turned the credit for his old Here’s a brief overview of the games in our May Learn to game. Score points by piling is month we're hosting a are no holes in your nished kingdom. Have Mini Expansion for Carcassonne Resource Management just guessing titles instead of people. I Friday read the current book and show up. Any way you build your kingdom, whether you concentrate on endless Tina’s game reviews typically explain how the game plays - going to be using the Blue side or the Yellow side of the Used Games For Sale games into new games, buying: Tzolk’in: e Mayan Play lineup. number-shaped tiles on top of Kingdomino Organized Play Day • Carcassonne: South Seas - First Stop Around the • Lost Cities - An Expedition for nd Time’s Up! Title Recall easier than Board Game Auction Results Kingdomino's game play is quick and simple, though you forests and sparkling lakes or the highs and lows of mountains and marshes, providing the information you need that’s rarely on the cards. Harbour Calendar, Qwixx, Lost Cites, Alien Frontiers and Tanz der Our meetings are full of lively discussions of the current Saturday, May 12 Learn to Play Ticket to Ride each other. Only tiles on at Here Be Books & Games. We World Tw o Time’s Up! Tim prefers the original. Isis & Osiris Lots of great deals were had at Here Be Books & Games’ Board usually have to make some hard choices both when or a little bit of everything with lots of glittery crowns, it's a fun, puzzly game back of the box. She also makes good use of pictures of All players, passing the same deck around until it’s Mansions of Madness 2nd Ed Hornochsen. book, show & tell of other stu we’ve read recently, the second level and up have some cool promos to give away as prizes to partici- • Century: Spice Road - If You Like • Pandemic - A Scrabble Deluxe Game Auction, Saturday, April 21. Ticket to Ride is a cross-country set-collection train placing dominoes and choosing your next domino. How that's over before you want it to be. 2 to 4 players ages 8 and up can play the game and its components. depleted, take turns trying to get their team to guess the Either game you play, time is ticking movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other score points: 1 x number Splendor, You‘ll Love is! Test of Mettle Palace of Mad King Ludwig Starfarers of Catan A BIG ank You to all the participants: the sellers who game in which players collect and play matching train pants, including: Dark Castles, Ice Castles, Princess bad do you want to go rst? Maybe that domino with the Kingdomino in about 15 minutes. Younger kids can play, too - they'll just in these interactive, modern 99 lots went up for auction with Tim presiding as geeky stu . It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t on 2nd level, 2 x number on • Cinque Terre If any of the above titles spark your interest, or you see a names on the cards over three rounds: brought Castles, Sand Castles and a Tile Tower. So, it seemed a need a little help calculating their scores at the end. - Pickup & Deliver and Cooperation Charades-style party games that are Smallworld Trivial Pursuit: Booklovers Ed. cards to claim railway routes connecting cities on a 3rd level, etc. Everyone plays the same number tiles in 3-crown mountain tile on it is worth going last. auctioneer, occassionally relieved by Bailey. Several games their games like that month’s book. good time to write a review of this quick, puzzly, tile Produce on the Italian Riviera • Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - A Story game on your inking About List, you need only visit 1st Round, you can say almost anything! Hint: it’s a sooo much fun, they’re our favorite. e Walking Dead: e Best turn-of-the-century map. Each Ticket to Ride game and the same order until all the tiles have been played. Count Because it's made by Blue Orange Games, the original were still in shrinkwrap. Some lots included a whole stack to the What are we reading in the near future? I’m glad you placement, kingdom-building game by Bruno Cathala, • Coal Baron - Workin’ in the Coal Mine Unfolds e Glass Meeple to be illuminated. good idea to use a gesture, too, if you can think of Defense expansion o ers an exciting new twist, while keeping the your score and highest wins. publisher of Spot It!, you know Kingdomino is family of expansions along with the base game. auction and asked. Here’s a tentative list of the books we’ll likely read published by Blue Orange Games. Goin’ Down Down • Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 - A Fresh one. Your teammates can guess repeatedly, but you friendly and that you can play it with the kids. But is it • Codenames: Pictures - 3 Relaxing Games Time’s Up! can’t pass. Don’t worry if you don’t know who some- e Franklin Mint 3D Chess Set, similar to the one Spock played on the the buyers in the near future – listed alphabetically by the member Sagrada is a beautiful puzzle Kingdomino, takes its name from and Exciting Pandemic Game fun for adults? e answer is a resounding "Yes!" Take a • DC Comics Deck-building Game Series - one is, try to nd other ways to get your team to original Star Trek series, with its gold and silver plated chessmen, sadly got no who bid on who chose them, not in reading order: game of dice drafting and stained its domino game • Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu - Leash the Madness! Here Be Books & Games them. look at some of the Honors Kingdomino has garnered Super Frenemies of America • P.I. - Don your fedoras and threnchcoats, guess. bids. It did generate a lot of laughter though, when Tim accidently said it was • e Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Aubrey) glass window crafting. Draft the pieces featuring 810 Travelers Blvd, Suite A2, Summerville, SC 29485 since it debuted in 2016: • Dimension - at’s How the Ball gumshoes, mystery is afoot from “Star Wars” and Tina gently corrected that it was “Star Trek.” “Lost Many • e Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay sparkling transparent dice and a terrain tile at 2nd Round, you can only give a single one-word Phone: (843) 695-1498 • Hours: Tue & Wed 1 to 7pm, Fri & Sat 11am to 7pm • 2016 Tric Trac Nominee Stacks • Qwixx - To X or Not to X some geek cred there, Tim,” one buyer commented to more laughter. thanks to Smith (Carmen) place them in your window each end. Your clue, but you can gesture all you want and make • 2016 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee • Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & • Railroad Revolution - Specialized Workers Web: HereBeBooksAndGames.com • Online Store: HereBeBooksAndGames.com/onlinestore Here’s a sampling of some of the games buyers did take home from the Bailey and • Rune Service by J.B. Garner (Diane) matching its pattern. Use Tools goal is to build the sounds. Your teammates only get one guess and you to break the rules and x your • 2017 Spiel des Jahres Winner Clark - A ematic Euro Dice Game Lend Layers of Complexity Facebook: www.facebook.com/herebebooksandgames