Learn to Play Colt Express Games of Auld Lang Syne: 7 Game Gift Exchange Recap When you learn to play Colt Classics that Never Grow See who picked what at our 5) on the common pile, with cards face up or face down you do, you give that player one of your six bullet cards; (Diane) 11. John took home Kingdom Builder Big Box All of these games of days-gone-by were rst published at copy, discovered it was back in print (end of 2014) and ducking, hiding, back-tracking even to confuse the detectives (the rest of the players) pursuing I've never played a game with all of the expansions, but I have played many games with multiple Each player starts the game with a set of four Tickets each showing two cities that need to be connected (should he Express at Here Be Books & Old Some old favorites you might annual December Game depending on the type of the current round. Instead of that card gets shued in the opponent's deck, possibly least 10 years ago and all of them are currently in print. I'll immediately bought it for Tim for Christmas. Man was him. While the detectives are almost always informed of Mr. X's mode of transportation, his expansions. I even created several emed Carcassonne Combos decide to keep the Ticket). You have to keep at least two of them, but you can keep more. It's a good idea to try to keep want to get to know yourself... Night... • Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Jonathan) 12. Brent picked up Path nder ACG: Wrath of the Righ- Games on Saturday, Jan 21 playing a card, a player may draw three cards from her giving her a dead card in hand on a future turn and start with the oldest, provide a quick overview, then follow he surprised. It's hard to surprise my husband. exact location is only sighted a few times during the game. e pursuing detectives also move by (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193814/) that if you played all of Tickets whose routes can overlap or travel in the same general direction. Any Tickets completed by the end of the game Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup teous and expansions you’ll get a free promo... deck. forcing her to draw instead of playing something. If the up with more detail on a few of them in my next few posts. taxi, bus or subway, attempting to apprehend Mr. X by moving onto his current location. If the them you would've played almost all of the expansions - all that I had at the score you the points noted in the corner of the Tickets; any not completed score that number of negative points. Players group at: At any rate, we stocked it for awhile, until it went out of Marshal ends up in the same car as you, likely due to 13. Adam chose Witcher & Adventure Time Fluxx Some, I've already covered in great detail, in which case I'll detectives don't apprehend Mr. X within a set number of turns, Mr. X escapes to continue his time anyway. also each receive four colored Train cards. e colored Train cards correspond with the colored spaces on the board of the Page 1 Page 3 Page 3 Phase 2: Stealin' - Check to make sure everything is www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club. print again. But I'm quite happy to say it's back! going o as planned and that you've avoided enemy other bandits luring him through the train, he'll be happy 14. Derek took home Abyss just link to that post. :-) On to the games... nefarious crime spree. Carcassonne got an updated look in 2015 with new artwork. I covered it in a routes you can claim. On your turn, you can do one of the following actions: to give you a bullet, too. So what's the game like? Can't Stop is a push-your-luck bullets. e action cards are carried out in the order they Game Gift Exchange Recap 15. Jacob picked 7 Wonders and Welcome Back to the Acquire (1964) dice game. Your goal is to be the rst player to claim three Scotland Yard has seen many iterations, reboots and re-themes in its long post on eGlassMeeple.com. I've also written about the six numbered mini- • Take 1 or 2 Train cards from the face-up selection of 5 cards, the top of the deck or a combination of both. If you Here Be Books & Games News were played, with a player's best-laid plans possibly going At the end of the game, whoever red the most bullets 55 gamers attended December’s Game Dungeon I was quite averse to even trying this columns, by reaching their tops rst with your cones - print history. Among the most beautiful and thematic re-themes are Fury expansions, my favorite e Phantom, the large Hills & Sheep expansion and the Carcassonne: South Seas spin-o on e take a face-up Locomotive (wild card that can be played as any color), that's the only card you can take that turn. 4650 Ladson Rd, Ste I, Summerville, SC 29485 awry due to mistakes and oversights! receives a $1,000 braggart bonus, and whoever bagged the Night and Game Gift Exchange. Many 16. Jason chose King of Tokyo and some neat arwork game. Somehow I had gotten the they look like the safety cones used on streets. Once a of Dracula (currently available, but out-of-print) and Letters from Whi- Glass Meeple. • Claim a Route by laying down cards of the color and quantity corresponding to the entire route between two richest haul wins! impression that Acquire was long, techapel (between printings right now). In 1991, Parker Brothers added it adjacent cities that you wish to claim and placing your colored trains to signify it. Grey routes can be claimed with (843) 695-1498 10am to 6pm Tues thru Sat Colt Express takes place in a 3D train in which the bandits people brought treats to share - Carissa’s 17. Diane selected a basket of games that included If column is claimed, it is considered Closed and you can no Now if I could just get those last few tiles before they make more!!! arduous and cutthroat. Not liking to its Clue line as Clue: e Great Museum Caper with a neat 3-D board. a set of any one color of Train cards. Locomotives are wild and work as any color. Used books & new board games. We'll teach you how to play! can move from one car to another, run on the roof, punch You can learn to play Colt Express at Here Be Books & pie was my favorite, and her towering Wishes Were Fishes, Ticket to Ride: e Card Game and longer play in that column. e columns are numbered 2 TransAmerica (2002) games with lots of direct conict, I New York Chase and seven other re-implementations are listed in the Board Game Geek • Take Tickets. You'll usually only do this when you've completed or almost completed your initial Tickets. Remem- the other bandits, shoot 'em, rob the passengers, or draw Games, January 21, 2017 from 1 to 5 p.m. We’ll even cocunut cake was delectable. Tilak, who some homemade meeple and robot ornaments to 12 which corresponds with the possible results you can Issue 46 January 2017 the Marshal out of position. e train has as many cars as give you a copy of the Colt Express: Cursed Loot promo for received it in the game bundle he avoided it like the plague. Turns out get with a pair of dice. You advance your cones up a database. Scotland Yard is itself in print and available as I write this. TransAmerica is one of the rst modern board games I learned when we really got into ber any uncompleted Tickets at the end of the game score negative points. Don't announce it when you've com- the number of players, and each car is seeded with gems, trying the game out. (While supplies last.) Just drop by and chose in the Gift Exchange, shared it 18. Tina elected Hacienda and Salmon Run I was wrong on all counts. It's column with dice rolls. You each get your own set of Robo Rally (1994) board games. e concept is simple: connect the ve city cards in your hand by rail, one pleted a Ticket. Completed Tickets are only scored at the end of the game. To Take Tickets, draw four Tickets from city from each of the ve colored regions on the board, before any of the other players bags of loot or suitcases at the start of the game. Each we’ll teach you how to play! Admission is FREE. with the attendees in celebration of his friend Prabhu’s 19. William picked Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert neither long, arduous, nor cutthroat and there really colored cones to keep track of your progress in the the top of the Ticket deck. You must keep at least one, but you can keep more than one if you desire. Save the Date! I love Robo Rally. It is the most chaotic, crazy, fun, programmed-movement racing game connect theirs. player starts a round with six cards in hand, with each birthday. (since this was Aaron’s gift we rolled a die to see who got isn't any direct conict, just a vying for majority stock in columns - placed or moved at the end of your turn if Saturday, January 7, 6pm I’ve ever played. Each player takes a cute little robot gure and places it on the starting line. When one player has two or fewer trains left, after claiming a route, all players, including that player get one more turn. card showing one of these actions. Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting the seven hotels (original versions) or companies (later you're successful. TransAmerica is played over a series of rounds. Players start with their locomotive at the Game Night We changed up the rules of the Gift Exchange this year: next pick) en it's a race around the factory oor to make it to all of the ags rst. Of course, there en the game is over. Players then each reveal their Tickets, one at a time, tracing the path between the cities depicted Current Read: Something Wicked is Way Comes by Ray versions). Actually, vying for majority stock isn't even the are all sorts of things on the factory oor to impede your progress like fast and slow Engine House at one end of the score track. As they score points each round, they on their Ticket - or not if they weren't successful - and scoring points accordingly. Finally, the player with the Longest Friday, January 13, 6 pm • Everyone brought an unwrapped game or bundle of 20. Cameron chose Codenames: After Dark, Archer Love On your turn, take the three tracking cones (usually Bradbury (Jason’s pick) goal of the game, the goal is just to make the most money conveyor belts, gears that will turn you around if you end your turn there, laser beams to move closer and closer to the Barrier at the other end of the score track. You don't Continuous Route of trains, score a 10 point bonus. e player with the highest scores wins. Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club games whose original MSRP was $50 or more. Letter, Scattergories and some decoder rings white), then roll the 4 dice. You have to use the dice you and become the wealthiest player. rolled in pairs. So, a roll of 1, 3, 4, 5, would provide the watch out for - and don't forget your fellow robots. ey shoot their own laser beams at the want want to go past the Barrier, so scoring points is a bad thing. Something Wicked is Way Comes Next Meeting: Friday, January 13 at • Aaron Cox was elected to go first due to his gener- 21. Callan selected the fancy Star Trek Panic basket And that's the game in a nutshell. I don't exactly know why I never get tired of playing Ticket to Ride. I do like to mix it Game play is quite simple and straightforward: 1) play a end of each turn - you don't want to be in front of that! Your fellow robots may also get in by Ray Bradbury 6 pm at HBB&G. ousity in previous gift exchanges. following potential combinations: At the beginning of each round, players choose an intersection on the map of the up and play the dierent maps, though. 22. Christine & Christopher picked Firey: e Game and tile to the board, if that causes the creation of a new your way or push you around and set you o course. It's crazy United States - great for teaching kids geography - as their starting place, marking it Saturday, January 21, 1 to 5pm e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club • The person whose gift he picked got to choose next 4: 1 + 3 7: 3 + 4 Firey: Shiny Dice company or a merger, resolve that; 2) buy up to 3 shares of fun!!! with their depot (colored wooden disc). On your turn, you can place one or two ere are several stand-alone Ticket to Ride games: the original USA, Europe, Nordic Countries, Marklin, and the latest - Learn to Play Colt Express reads fantasy and science ction, plus and so on. 5: 1 + 4 8: 3 + 5 stock - if you can aord it!; 3) draw a new tile. e room rails: if you cross a river or mountain, you can only place one rail, otherwise you can place Rails & Sails. Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition is a must-see - a must-have in my book! I resisted for a few weeks urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. • Participants were allowed to augment their game 23. Tim chose Firey: e Game and chocolate 6: 1 + 5 9: 4 + 5 Designed by Richard Gareld and rst published in 1994 by Avalon Hill for strategy, however, is expansive. While there is random- two. When laying your rail, you must always be able to trace a path back to your depot. then broke down and bought a copy for myself. It sports a larger, more beautifully illustrated board, 5 unique train We meet about once a month, gifts with trinkets, goodies or even a towering 24. Maia selected Power Grid and Prolix with a few hard-to-nd expansions, just the base game of Robo Rally was later ness in which tiles you draw, everything else - including Arrange the dice into the model sets in matching colored tins, the USA 1910 Expansion, and bright shiny coconut cake to make them more desirable. reprinted by Wizards of the Coast. Recently it got a reboot, this time with Connecting your railway to a fellow player's increases your possible routes/rail placements. Eventually, everyone will be Game Night usually the Friday after Game Night 25. Leslie chose Tempus, Sync Up and Catch Phrase two pairs you want to use. new graphics throughout. It's lovely. You can use the new trains on the which stocks sky rocket - is dependent on the players' pre-painted robots and a few other changes. I can't wait to try it and plan to connected before the round is over. at 6 p.m. at the store. is new method of exchange was well received, so we’ll Sometimes you can only small maps: only the long 5- and 6-train routes hang over a bit. 1st Saturday of Every Month 26. Gary, Chris & Josh picked a game bundle that actions. write it up here afterwards. When a player connects all ve of his cities, he displays his cards to conrm it. en the other players show their cards Attending members submit a book do it again that way next year. use one pair. You can included Lord of the Rings Confrontation So what was and count the least number of rails required to connect the rest of their cities, moving their locomotive towards the ere are also lots of Map expansions for Ticket to Ride: Legendary Since 2007! title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - progress in up to three Carcassonne (2000) I did my best to record what games were given away and my reaction Barrier on the score track accordingly. e player who successfully connected all ve of his cities doesn't have to move his Asia & Team Asia (my favorite), India & Switzerland, Heart of usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When 27. Erin & Mike chose a bundle with Acquire, Red Shirts columns (signied by the three tracking cones) on one Carcassonne At the start of a round, a round card is revealed, showing in what order they were chosen. Here’s the run-down in after I nally is an old favorite of mine. It's a tile-laying game of short-term area control - sort of. locomotive at all. Africa, Nederlands, and United Kingdom & Pennsylvania. All of the we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by and more. turn, but your turn isn't over until you either decide to how many cards will be played; whether they'll be played case you’re interested or want to make notes for next year’s played it for I've become a Carcassonne Completist - determined to own every expansion and mini-expansion, Map expansions can be played with either the original USA Ticket to Ride each member - we start a new list. It was quite a night! Stop or don’t have a legal play. For example, if in previous though not every spin-o. It seems to be a losing battle. Recently I had all but 2 of the 40 Collect all of the cards, shue each color separately, deal a new set to each player, choose your starting locations and take or Ticket to Ride: Europe. Colt Express face up or face down, individually, or in pairs; and what exchange. the rst time? Learn to Play action will occur at the end of the round (e.g., all bandits You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection rolls that turn, you had already committed your tracking expansions and mini expansions (some are just 1 tile). en just as the last 2 arrived from turns playing rails again until a player connects her cities. Record the scores moving locomotives along the track. Rinse INSIDE: 1. Aaron chose Mythos Tales Games of Old Lang Syne: 7 Classic I loved it and and repeat until a train crosses the Barrier. e player closest to the Engine House wins! Every expansion and stand-alone game provides its own additional set On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Paci c on top of the train move to the engine). You can pick up and come to the meeting. cones to columns 3, 7 and 10, you would only be able to Germany, I discovered they'd printed a couple new promo tiles. Grrrr! • Learn to Play Colt Express and More details are available on asked to play again! of rules, adding just a little more complexity, while building on the Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers loot, gems or suitcases only by playing a "steal" card when our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and 2. Adam took Mombasa Games That Never Grow Old use the 7 you rolled (3 + 4). Should you ever roll a dice TransAmerica is a fun and quick family game. I've taught it to kids as young as four - they don't have to be able to read, get a free promo. A new version of Acquire just released at the end of 2016. Carcassonne play is simple: draw a landscape tile and place it, then optionally place a meeple. same simple game play. I would rate the two maps in Rails & Sails and on board. After a few minutes, gun re and hurrying you're in a train car that holds one of these items — but our Meetup Group. 3. Michael chose Ticket to Ride combination that won't let you advance in one of the just be able to match the city names on their cards with those on the board. We used to teach and play it all the time, Should auld acquaintance be forgot I'm planning to acquire a copy shortly and will post my When you place a meeple: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania as the most complex of them all. • Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits since everyone is planning to get these goods, you'll need three columns you're working in, you lose all progress then it went out of print. Now that it's available again - in a bigger box for some reason, though exactly the same game - Something Wicked This Way Comes Current Reading List: 4. Tilak selected the towering coconut cake with a bundle and never brought to mind thoughts on it after playing it a few times. e publisher • on a Road, he becomes a Robber and scores you 1 point per tile of the road when the road Summary have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and to move, punch and shoot to get others out of your way. made that turn. Remove the white cones from the board we can introduce it to more families! by Ray Bradbury of games Should auld acquaintance be forgot made quite a few changes, so I'm intrigued to see how is nished. jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding You can punch someone only in the same car as you, and If you have copies you’d like to trade or sell, please and play passes to the next player. I hope I've demonstrated with this list of Games of Old Lang Syne, that games of days gone by can be just as exciting • Game Gift Exchange Recap those work before commenting. Ticket to Ride (2004) the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it when you do, the other bandit drops one of the goods bring them in. 5. Carissa picked Forbidden Stars and games of auld lang syne. e push-your-luck element of Can't Stop makes play • in a City, he becomes a Knight scoring you 2 points per tile when the city is completed. and fun to play as the latest entry to the Cult of the New list. More so: you know them, you like them - love them even. Ticket to Ride is one of my favorite games of all time - in all its many forms! I • Games of Auld Lang Syne: 7 having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel Ford? Will these bandits he's collected and is knocked into an adjacent car. • Legacy of Heorot or Lucifer’s Hammer or Footfall by 6. Scott & Gabriel selected Pandemic: Cthulhu It's so easy to focus solely on the latest releases when Can't Stop (1980) quick, lively and very addicting. It's just as fun with 2 • on a Cloister, he becomes a monk, scoring 9 points for you when the cloister is complete: surrounded by 8 tiles, 4 Playing them brings back fond memories of past plays and times spent with friends and loved ones. Plus, you don't have never tire of playing it, so it of course deserves a spot on this Games of Auld Classic Games That Never hinder one another more than the Marshal since only the richest one of them can Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle or e Door Into choosing games to review, that I thought I'd change players as with 3 or 4. sides and 4 diagonals. to spend time learning new rules: just sit down and play. Each player's character has a special power, such as start- 7. Kat & Daniel took home Space Alert & Gearworld I rst met Can't Stop on Board Game Lang Syne list. I really need to write about my favorite games more often. Grow Old come out on top? Summer by Robert Heinlein or Sundiver by David things up a bit and reect on some of my favorite games Scotland Yard (1983) • lying flat on a field, he becomes a farmer. Farmers score only at the end of the game, yielding 3 points per com- ing the round with an extra card, playing your rst card Arena when my husband introduced Too many games, too little time. But I digress. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. • Game Library Additions Pilgrimage: e Book of the People 8. Brent grabbed Mice & Mystics and a gogeous handmade of auld lang syne. I have so many old favorites that I still pleted city served (touched) by the farm. In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other face down, or pocketing a bag of loot when you punch Brin or by Zenna me to the game. It was immediately Scotland Yard has you and your fellow detectives running Should auld acquaintance be forgot and games of auld lang syne. Henderson (Carmen) castle dice tower which he later gifted to me. play, I decided to narrow the eld by eliminating games Ticket to Ride is a set collection, route-building game. e designer, Alan • New Arrivals bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. e someone instead of letting it hit the ground. addicting even though I lost big time all over London chasing down the elusive Mr. X (played After scoring a completed feature, you get your meeple back and can use it again in a later turn. And days of auld lang syne, my dear and games of auld lang syne. Goblin Quest Explaining Cthulhu 9. Nelson selected Mysterium that aren't currently in print. I wouldn't want to get you the rst several times I played. My Moon, somehow came up with the perfect formula balancing interesting • Back In Stock game consists of ve rounds, and each round has two phases: You can shoot someone in an adjacent car or (if you're • by Jim C. Hines or by one player). Mr. X's job is to move from point-to- Each large expansion adds new tiles, new meeples and new rules. Some of the mini-expansions also add new game pieces We'll raise a cup of kindness, dear to games of auld lang syne. to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvartsman all excited about a game only to tell you that it's not husband remarked that he had owned game play with simple, streamlined rules. • Used Games for Sale Phase 1: Schemin' - Prepare the train robbery by playing your Action cards (2 to running on top of the train) anyone in sight, and when 10. Richard chose Mage Wars Arena point around the map of London via taxi, bus or subway, and rules as well. Many of the promo mini-expansions just add a few new tiles, usually with some new twist to the rules. available right now. at would just be mean. and loved it as a kid, so I went looking for a Issue 46 Here Be Books & Games News January 2017

5) on the common pile, with cards face up or face down you do, you give that player one of your six bullet cards; (Diane) 11. John took home Kingdom Builder Big Box All of these games of days-gone-by were rst published at copy, discovered it was back in print (end of 2014) and ducking, hiding, back-tracking even to confuse the detectives (the rest of the players) pursuing I've never played a game with all of the expansions, but I have played many games with multiple Each player starts the game with a set of four Tickets each showing two cities that need to be connected (should he depending on the type of the current round. Instead of that card gets shued in the opponent's deck, possibly • Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Jonathan) 12. Brent picked up Path nder ACG: Wrath of the Righ- least 10 years ago and all of them are currently in print. I'll immediately bought it for Tim for Christmas. Man was him. While the detectives are almost always informed of Mr. X's mode of transportation, his expansions. I even created several emed Carcassonne Combos decide to keep the Ticket). You have to keep at least two of them, but you can keep more. It's a good idea to try to keep playing a card, a player may draw three cards from her giving her a dead card in hand on a future turn and start with the oldest, provide a quick overview, then follow he surprised. It's hard to surprise my husband. exact location is only sighted a few times during the game. e pursuing detectives also move by Tickets whose routes can overlap or travel in the same general direction. Any Tickets completed by the end of the game Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup teous and expansions (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193814/) that if you played all of deck. forcing her to draw instead of playing something. If the up with more detail on a few of them in my next few posts. taxi, bus or subway, attempting to apprehend Mr. X by moving onto his current location. If the score you the points noted in the corner of the Tickets; any not completed score that number of negative points. Players group at: At any rate, we stocked it for awhile, until it went out of them you would've played almost all of the expansions - all that I had at the Marshal ends up in the same car as you, likely due to 13. Adam chose Witcher & Adventure Time Fluxx Some, I've already covered in great detail, in which case I'll detectives don't apprehend Mr. X within a set number of turns, Mr. X escapes to continue his time anyway. also each receive four colored Train cards. e colored Train cards correspond with the colored spaces on the board of the Phase 2: Stealin' - Check to make sure everything is www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club. print again. But I'm quite happy to say it's back! going o as planned and that you've avoided enemy other bandits luring him through the train, he'll be happy 14. Derek took home Abyss just link to that post. :-) On to the games... nefarious crime spree. Carcassonne got an updated look in 2015 with new artwork. I covered it in a routes you can claim. On your turn, you can do one of the following actions: to give you a bullet, too. So what's the game like? Can't Stop is a push-your-luck bullets. e action cards are carried out in the order they Game Gift Exchange Recap 15. Jacob picked 7 Wonders and Welcome Back to the Acquire (1964) dice game. Your goal is to be the rst player to claim three Scotland Yard has seen many iterations, reboots and re-themes in its long post on eGlassMeeple.com. I've also written about the six numbered mini- • Take 1 or 2 Train cards from the face-up selection of 5 cards, the top of the deck or a combination of both. If you were played, with a player's best-laid plans possibly going At the end of the game, whoever red the most bullets 55 gamers attended December’s Game Dungeon I was quite averse to even trying this columns, by reaching their tops rst with your cones - print history. Among the most beautiful and thematic re-themes are Fury expansions, my favorite e Phantom, the large Hills & Sheep expansion and the Carcassonne: South Seas spin-o on e take a face-up Locomotive (wild card that can be played as any color), that's the only card you can take that turn. awry due to mistakes and oversights! receives a $1,000 braggart bonus, and whoever bagged the Night and Game Gift Exchange. Many 16. Jason chose King of Tokyo and some neat arwork game. Somehow I had gotten the they look like the safety cones used on streets. Once a of Dracula (currently available, but out-of-print) and Letters from Whi- Glass Meeple. • Claim a Route by laying down cards of the color and quantity corresponding to the entire route between two richest haul wins! impression that Acquire was long, techapel (between printings right now). In 1991, Parker Brothers added it adjacent cities that you wish to claim and placing your colored trains to signify it. Grey routes can be claimed with Colt Express takes place in a 3D train in which the bandits people brought treats to share - Carissa’s 17. Diane selected a basket of games that included If column is claimed, it is considered Closed and you can no Now if I could just get those last few tiles before they make more!!! arduous and cutthroat. Not liking to its Clue line as Clue: e Great Museum Caper with a neat 3-D board. a set of any one color of Train cards. Locomotives are wild and work as any color. can move from one car to another, run on the roof, punch You can learn to play Colt Express at Here Be Books & pie was my favorite, and her towering Wishes Were Fishes, Ticket to Ride: e Card Game and longer play in that column. e columns are numbered 2 TransAmerica (2002) games with lots of direct conict, I New York Chase and seven other re-implementations are listed in the Board Game Geek • Take Tickets. You'll usually only do this when you've completed or almost completed your initial Tickets. Remem- the other bandits, shoot 'em, rob the passengers, or draw Games, January 21, 2017 from 1 to 5 p.m. We’ll even cocunut cake was delectable. Tilak, who some homemade meeple and robot ornaments to 12 which corresponds with the possible results you can the Marshal out of position. e train has as many cars as give you a copy of the Colt Express: Cursed Loot promo for received it in the game bundle he avoided it like the plague. Turns out get with a pair of dice. You advance your cones up a database. Scotland Yard is itself in print and available as I write this. TransAmerica is one of the rst modern board games I learned when we really got into ber any uncompleted Tickets at the end of the game score negative points. Don't announce it when you've com- the number of players, and each car is seeded with gems, trying the game out. (While supplies last.) Just drop by and chose in the Gift Exchange, shared it 18. Tina elected Hacienda and Salmon Run I was wrong on all counts. It's column with dice rolls. You each get your own set of Robo Rally (1994) board games. e concept is simple: connect the ve city cards in your hand by rail, one pleted a Ticket. Completed Tickets are only scored at the end of the game. To Take Tickets, draw four Tickets from city from each of the ve colored regions on the board, before any of the other players bags of loot or suitcases at the start of the game. Each we’ll teach you how to play! Admission is FREE. with the attendees in celebration of his friend Prabhu’s 19. William picked Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert neither long, arduous, nor cutthroat and there really colored cones to keep track of your progress in the the top of the Ticket deck. You must keep at least one, but you can keep more than one if you desire. I love Robo Rally. It is the most chaotic, crazy, fun, programmed-movement racing game connect theirs. player starts a round with six cards in hand, with each birthday. (since this was Aaron’s gift we rolled a die to see who got isn't any direct conict, just a vying for majority stock in columns - placed or moved at the end of your turn if I’ve ever played. Each player takes a cute little robot gure and places it on the starting line. When one player has two or fewer trains left, after claiming a route, all players, including that player get one more turn. Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting the seven hotels (original versions) or companies (later card showing one of these actions. We changed up the rules of the Gift Exchange this year: next pick) you're successful. en it's a race around the factory oor to make it to all of the ags rst. Of course, there TransAmerica is played over a series of rounds. Players start with their locomotive at the en the game is over. Players then each reveal their Tickets, one at a time, tracing the path between the cities depicted Current Read: Something Wicked is Way Comes by Ray versions). Actually, vying for majority stock isn't even the are all sorts of things on the factory oor to impede your progress like fast and slow Engine House at one end of the score track. As they score points each round, they on their Ticket - or not if they weren't successful - and scoring points accordingly. Finally, the player with the Longest • Everyone brought an unwrapped game or bundle of 20. Cameron chose Codenames: After Dark, Archer Love On your turn, take the three tracking cones (usually Bradbury (Jason’s pick) goal of the game, the goal is just to make the most money conveyor belts, gears that will turn you around if you end your turn there, laser beams to move closer and closer to the Barrier at the other end of the score track. You don't Continuous Route of trains, score a 10 point bonus. e player with the highest scores wins. games whose original MSRP was $50 or more. Letter, Scattergories and some decoder rings white), then roll the 4 dice. You have to use the dice you and become the wealthiest player. rolled in pairs. So, a roll of 1, 3, 4, 5, would provide the watch out for - and don't forget your fellow robots. ey shoot their own laser beams at the want want to go past the Barrier, so scoring points is a bad thing. Next Meeting: Friday, January 13 at • Aaron Cox was elected to go first due to his gener- 21. Callan selected the fancy Star Trek Panic basket And that's the game in a nutshell. I don't exactly know why I never get tired of playing Ticket to Ride. I do like to mix it Game play is quite simple and straightforward: 1) play a end of each turn - you don't want to be in front of that! Your fellow robots may also get in 6 pm at HBB&G. ousity in previous gift exchanges. following potential combinations: At the beginning of each round, players choose an intersection on the map of the up and play the dierent maps, though. 22. Christine & Christopher picked Firey: e Game and tile to the board, if that causes the creation of a new your way or push you around and set you o course. It's crazy United States - great for teaching kids geography - as their starting place, marking it e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club • The person whose gift he picked got to choose next 4: 1 + 3 7: 3 + 4 Firey: Shiny Dice company or a merger, resolve that; 2) buy up to 3 shares of fun!!! with their depot (colored wooden disc). On your turn, you can place one or two ere are several stand-alone Ticket to Ride games: the original USA, Europe, Nordic Countries, Marklin, and the latest - reads fantasy and science ction, plus and so on. 5: 1 + 4 8: 3 + 5 stock - if you can aord it!; 3) draw a new tile. e room rails: if you cross a river or mountain, you can only place one rail, otherwise you can place Rails & Sails. Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition is a must-see - a must-have in my book! I resisted for a few weeks urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. • Participants were allowed to augment their game 23. Tim chose Firey: e Game and chocolate 6: 1 + 5 9: 4 + 5 Designed by Richard Gareld and rst published in 1994 by Avalon Hill for strategy, however, is expansive. While there is random- two. When laying your rail, you must always be able to trace a path back to your depot. then broke down and bought a copy for myself. It sports a larger, more beautifully illustrated board, 5 unique train We meet about once a month, gifts with trinkets, goodies or even a towering 24. Maia selected Power Grid and Prolix with a few hard-to-nd expansions, just the base game of Robo Rally was later ness in which tiles you draw, everything else - including Arrange the dice into the model sets in matching colored tins, the USA 1910 Expansion, and bright shiny coconut cake to make them more desirable. reprinted by Wizards of the Coast. Recently it got a reboot, this time with Connecting your railway to a fellow player's increases your possible routes/rail placements. Eventually, everyone will be usually the Friday after Game Night 25. Leslie chose Tempus, Sync Up and Catch Phrase two pairs you want to use. new graphics throughout. It's lovely. You can use the new trains on the which stocks sky rocket - is dependent on the players' pre-painted robots and a few other changes. I can't wait to try it and plan to connected before the round is over. at 6 p.m. at the store. is new method of exchange was well received, so we’ll Sometimes you can only small maps: only the long 5- and 6-train routes hang over a bit. 26. Gary, Chris & Josh picked a game bundle that actions. write it up here afterwards. When a player connects all ve of his cities, he displays his cards to conrm it. en the other players show their cards Attending members submit a book do it again that way next year. use one pair. You can included Lord of the Rings Confrontation So what was and count the least number of rails required to connect the rest of their cities, moving their locomotive towards the ere are also lots of Map expansions for Ticket to Ride: Legendary title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - progress in up to three Carcassonne (2000) I did my best to record what games were given away and my reaction Barrier on the score track accordingly. e player who successfully connected all ve of his cities doesn't have to move his Asia & Team Asia (my favorite), India & Switzerland, Heart of usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When 27. Erin & Mike chose a bundle with Acquire, Red Shirts columns (signied by the three tracking cones) on one Carcassonne At the start of a round, a round card is revealed, showing in what order they were chosen. Here’s the run-down in after I nally is an old favorite of mine. It's a tile-laying game of short-term area control - sort of. locomotive at all. Africa, Nederlands, and United Kingdom & Pennsylvania. All of the we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by and more. turn, but your turn isn't over until you either decide to how many cards will be played; whether they'll be played case you’re interested or want to make notes for next year’s played it for I've become a Carcassonne Completist - determined to own every expansion and mini-expansion, Map expansions can be played with either the original USA Ticket to Ride each member - we start a new list. It was quite a night! Stop or don’t have a legal play. For example, if in previous Collect all of the cards, shue each color separately, deal a new set to each player, choose your starting locations and take face up or face down, individually, or in pairs; and what exchange. the rst time? though not every spin-o. It seems to be a losing battle. Recently I had all but 2 of the 40 or Ticket to Ride: Europe. Learn to Play Colt Express rolls that turn, you had already committed your tracking expansions and mini expansions (some are just 1 tile). en just as the last 2 arrived from turns playing rails again until a player connects her cities. Record the scores moving locomotives along the track. Rinse action will occur at the end of the round (e.g., all bandits You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection Mythos Tales I loved it and Every expansion and stand-alone game provides its own additional set 1. Aaron chose Games of Old Lang Syne: 7 Classic cones to columns 3, 7 and 10, you would only be able to and repeat until a train crosses the Barrier. e player closest to the Engine House wins! On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Paci c on top of the train move to the engine). You can pick up and come to the meeting. More details are available on asked to play again! Germany, I discovered they'd printed a couple new promo tiles. Grrrr! of rules, adding just a little more complexity, while building on the Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers loot, gems or suitcases only by playing a "steal" card when our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and 2. Adam took Mombasa Games That Never Grow Old use the 7 you rolled (3 + 4). Should you ever roll a dice TransAmerica is a fun and quick family game. I've taught it to kids as young as four - they don't have to be able to read, A new version of Acquire just released at the end of 2016. Carcassonne play is simple: draw a landscape tile and place it, then optionally place a meeple. same simple game play. I would rate the two maps in Rails & Sails and on board. After a few minutes, gun re and hurrying you're in a train car that holds one of these items — but our Meetup Group. 3. Michael chose Ticket to Ride combination that won't let you advance in one of the just be able to match the city names on their cards with those on the board. We used to teach and play it all the time, Should auld acquaintance be forgot I'm planning to acquire a copy shortly and will post my When you place a meeple: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania as the most complex of them all. footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits since everyone is planning to get these goods, you'll need three columns you're working in, you lose all progress then it went out of print. Now that it's available again - in a bigger box for some reason, though exactly the same game - Current Reading List: 4. Tilak selected the towering coconut cake with a bundle and never brought to mind thoughts on it after playing it a few times. e publisher • on a Road, he becomes a Robber and scores you 1 point per tile of the road when the road Summary have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and to move, punch and shoot to get others out of your way. made that turn. Remove the white cones from the board we can introduce it to more families! of games Should auld acquaintance be forgot made quite a few changes, so I'm intrigued to see how is nished. jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding You can punch someone only in the same car as you, and If you have copies you’d like to trade or sell, please and play passes to the next player. I hope I've demonstrated with this list of Games of Old Lang Syne, that games of days gone by can be just as exciting those work before commenting. Ticket to Ride (2004) the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it when you do, the other bandit drops one of the goods bring them in. 5. Carissa picked Forbidden Stars and games of auld lang syne. e push-your-luck element of Can't Stop makes play • in a City, he becomes a Knight scoring you 2 points per tile when the city is completed. and fun to play as the latest entry to the Cult of the New list. More so: you know them, you like them - love them even. Ticket to Ride is one of my favorite games of all time - in all its many forms! I having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel Ford? Will these bandits he's collected and is knocked into an adjacent car. • Legacy of Heorot or Lucifer’s Hammer or Footfall by 6. Scott & Gabriel selected Pandemic: Cthulhu It's so easy to focus solely on the latest releases when Can't Stop (1980) quick, lively and very addicting. It's just as fun with 2 • on a Cloister, he becomes a monk, scoring 9 points for you when the cloister is complete: surrounded by 8 tiles, 4 Playing them brings back fond memories of past plays and times spent with friends and loved ones. Plus, you don't have never tire of playing it, so it of course deserves a spot on this Games of Auld hinder one another more than the Marshal since only the richest one of them can Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle or e Door Into choosing games to review, that I thought I'd change players as with 3 or 4. sides and 4 diagonals. to spend time learning new rules: just sit down and play. Each player's character has a special power, such as start- 7. Kat & Daniel took home Space Alert & Gearworld I rst met Can't Stop on Board Game Lang Syne list. I really need to write about my favorite games more often. come out on top? Summer by Robert Heinlein or Sundiver by David things up a bit and reect on some of my favorite games Scotland Yard (1983) • lying flat on a field, he becomes a farmer. Farmers score only at the end of the game, yielding 3 points per com- ing the round with an extra card, playing your rst card Arena when my husband introduced Too many games, too little time. But I digress. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Pilgrimage: e Book of the People 8. Brent grabbed Mice & Mystics and a gogeous handmade of auld lang syne. I have so many old favorites that I still pleted city served (touched) by the farm. In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other face down, or pocketing a bag of loot when you punch Brin or by Zenna me to the game. It was immediately Scotland Yard has you and your fellow detectives running Should auld acquaintance be forgot and games of auld lang syne. Henderson (Carmen) castle dice tower which he later gifted to me. play, I decided to narrow the eld by eliminating games Ticket to Ride is a set collection, route-building game. e designer, Alan bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. e someone instead of letting it hit the ground. addicting even though I lost big time all over London chasing down the elusive Mr. X (played After scoring a completed feature, you get your meeple back and can use it again in a later turn. And days of auld lang syne, my dear and games of auld lang syne. Goblin Quest Explaining Cthulhu 9. Nelson selected Mysterium that aren't currently in print. I wouldn't want to get you the rst several times I played. My Moon, somehow came up with the perfect formula balancing interesting game consists of ve rounds, and each round has two phases: You can shoot someone in an adjacent car or (if you're • by Jim C. Hines or by one player). Mr. X's job is to move from point-to- Each large expansion adds new tiles, new meeples and new rules. Some of the mini-expansions also add new game pieces We'll raise a cup of kindness, dear to games of auld lang syne. to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvartsman all excited about a game only to tell you that it's not husband remarked that he had owned game play with simple, streamlined rules. Phase 1: Schemin' - Prepare the train robbery by playing your Action cards (2 to running on top of the train) anyone in sight, and when 10. Richard chose Mage Wars Arena point around the map of London via taxi, bus or subway, and rules as well. Many of the promo mini-expansions just add a few new tiles, usually with some new twist to the rules. 2 available right now. at would just be mean. and loved it as a kid, so I went looking for a Issue 46 Here Be Books & Games News January 2017

5) on the common pile, with cards face up or face down you do, you give that player one of your six bullet cards; (Diane) 11. John took home Kingdom Builder Big Box All of these games of days-gone-by were rst published at copy, discovered it was back in print (end of 2014) and ducking, hiding, back-tracking even to confuse the detectives (the rest of the players) pursuing I've never played a game with all of the expansions, but I have played many games with multiple Each player starts the game with a set of four Tickets each showing two cities that need to be connected (should he depending on the type of the current round. Instead of that card gets shued in the opponent's deck, possibly • Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Jonathan) 12. Brent picked up Path nder ACG: Wrath of the Righ- least 10 years ago and all of them are currently in print. I'll immediately bought it for Tim for Christmas. Man was him. While the detectives are almost always informed of Mr. X's mode of transportation, his expansions. I even created several emed Carcassonne Combos decide to keep the Ticket). You have to keep at least two of them, but you can keep more. It's a good idea to try to keep he surprised. It's hard to surprise my husband. exact location is only sighted a few times during the game. e pursuing detectives also move by playing a card, a player may draw three cards from her giving her a dead card in hand on a future turn and Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup teous and expansions start with the oldest, provide a quick overview, then follow (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193814/) that if you played all of Tickets whose routes can overlap or travel in the same general direction. Any Tickets completed by the end of the game taxi, bus or subway, attempting to apprehend Mr. X by moving onto his current location. If the deck. forcing her to draw instead of playing something. If the group at: up with more detail on a few of them in my next few posts. At any rate, we stocked it for awhile, until it went out of them you would've played almost all of the expansions - all that I had at the score you the points noted in the corner of the Tickets; any not completed score that number of negative points. Players Marshal ends up in the same car as you, likely due to 13. Adam chose Witcher & Adventure Time Fluxx Some, I've already covered in great detail, in which case I'll detectives don't apprehend Mr. X within a set number of turns, Mr. X escapes to continue his time anyway. also each receive four colored Train cards. e colored Train cards correspond with the colored spaces on the board of the Phase 2: Stealin' - Check to make sure everything is www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club. print again. But I'm quite happy to say it's back! going o as planned and that you've avoided enemy other bandits luring him through the train, he'll be happy 14. Derek took home Abyss just link to that post. :-) On to the games... nefarious crime spree. Carcassonne got an updated look in 2015 with new artwork. I covered it in a routes you can claim. On your turn, you can do one of the following actions: to give you a bullet, too. So what's the game like? Can't Stop is a push-your-luck bullets. e action cards are carried out in the order they Game Gift Exchange Recap 15. Jacob picked 7 Wonders and Welcome Back to the Acquire (1964) dice game. Your goal is to be the rst player to claim three Scotland Yard has seen many iterations, reboots and re-themes in its long post on eGlassMeeple.com. I've also written about the six numbered mini- • Take 1 or 2 Train cards from the face-up selection of 5 cards, the top of the deck or a combination of both. If you were played, with a player's best-laid plans possibly going At the end of the game, whoever red the most bullets 55 gamers attended December’s Game Dungeon I was quite averse to even trying this columns, by reaching their tops rst with your cones - print history. Among the most beautiful and thematic re-themes are Fury expansions, my favorite e Phantom, the large Hills & Sheep expansion and the Carcassonne: South Seas spin-o on e take a face-up Locomotive (wild card that can be played as any color), that's the only card you can take that turn. awry due to mistakes and oversights! receives a $1,000 braggart bonus, and whoever bagged the Night and Game Gift Exchange. Many 16. Jason chose King of Tokyo and some neat arwork game. Somehow I had gotten the they look like the safety cones used on streets. Once a of Dracula (currently available, but out-of-print) and Letters from Whi- Glass Meeple. • Claim a Route by laying down cards of the color and quantity corresponding to the entire route between two richest haul wins! impression that Acquire was long, techapel (between printings right now). In 1991, Parker Brothers added it adjacent cities that you wish to claim and placing your colored trains to signify it. Grey routes can be claimed with Colt Express takes place in a 3D train in which the bandits people brought treats to share - Carissa’s 17. Diane selected a basket of games that included If column is claimed, it is considered Closed and you can no Now if I could just get those last few tiles before they make more!!! arduous and cutthroat. Not liking to its Clue line as Clue: e Great Museum Caper with a neat 3-D board. a set of any one color of Train cards. Locomotives are wild and work as any color. can move from one car to another, run on the roof, punch You can learn to play Colt Express at Here Be Books & pie was my favorite, and her towering Wishes Were Fishes, Ticket to Ride: e Card Game and longer play in that column. e columns are numbered 2 TransAmerica (2002) games with lots of direct conict, I New York Chase and seven other re-implementations are listed in the Board Game Geek • Take Tickets. You'll usually only do this when you've completed or almost completed your initial Tickets. Remem- the other bandits, shoot 'em, rob the passengers, or draw Games, January 21, 2017 from 1 to 5 p.m. We’ll even cocunut cake was delectable. Tilak, who some homemade meeple and robot ornaments to 12 which corresponds with the possible results you can the Marshal out of position. e train has as many cars as give you a copy of the Colt Express: Cursed Loot promo for received it in the game bundle he avoided it like the plague. Turns out get with a pair of dice. You advance your cones up a database. Scotland Yard is itself in print and available as I write this. TransAmerica is one of the rst modern board games I learned when we really got into ber any uncompleted Tickets at the end of the game score negative points. Don't announce it when you've com- the number of players, and each car is seeded with gems, trying the game out. (While supplies last.) Just drop by and chose in the Gift Exchange, shared it 18. Tina elected Hacienda and Salmon Run I was wrong on all counts. It's column with dice rolls. You each get your own set of Robo Rally (1994) board games. e concept is simple: connect the ve city cards in your hand by rail, one pleted a Ticket. Completed Tickets are only scored at the end of the game. To Take Tickets, draw four Tickets from city from each of the ve colored regions on the board, before any of the other players bags of loot or suitcases at the start of the game. Each we’ll teach you how to play! Admission is FREE. with the attendees in celebration of his friend Prabhu’s 19. William picked Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert neither long, arduous, nor cutthroat and there really colored cones to keep track of your progress in the the top of the Ticket deck. You must keep at least one, but you can keep more than one if you desire. I love Robo Rally. It is the most chaotic, crazy, fun, programmed-movement racing game connect theirs. player starts a round with six cards in hand, with each birthday. (since this was Aaron’s gift we rolled a die to see who got isn't any direct conict, just a vying for majority stock in columns - placed or moved at the end of your turn if I’ve ever played. Each player takes a cute little robot gure and places it on the starting line. When one player has two or fewer trains left, after claiming a route, all players, including that player get one more turn. Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting the seven hotels (original versions) or companies (later card showing one of these actions. We changed up the rules of the Gift Exchange this year: next pick) you're successful. en it's a race around the factory oor to make it to all of the ags rst. Of course, there TransAmerica is played over a series of rounds. Players start with their locomotive at the en the game is over. Players then each reveal their Tickets, one at a time, tracing the path between the cities depicted Current Read: Something Wicked is Way Comes by Ray versions). Actually, vying for majority stock isn't even the are all sorts of things on the factory oor to impede your progress like fast and slow Engine House at one end of the score track. As they score points each round, they on their Ticket - or not if they weren't successful - and scoring points accordingly. Finally, the player with the Longest • Everyone brought an unwrapped game or bundle of 20. Cameron chose Codenames: After Dark, Archer Love On your turn, take the three tracking cones (usually Bradbury (Jason’s pick) goal of the game, the goal is just to make the most money conveyor belts, gears that will turn you around if you end your turn there, laser beams to move closer and closer to the Barrier at the other end of the score track. You don't Continuous Route of trains, score a 10 point bonus. e player with the highest scores wins. games whose original MSRP was $50 or more. Letter, Scattergories and some decoder rings white), then roll the 4 dice. You have to use the dice you and become the wealthiest player. rolled in pairs. So, a roll of 1, 3, 4, 5, would provide the watch out for - and don't forget your fellow robots. ey shoot their own laser beams at the want want to go past the Barrier, so scoring points is a bad thing. Next Meeting: Friday, January 13 at • Aaron Cox was elected to go first due to his gener- 21. Callan selected the fancy Star Trek Panic basket And that's the game in a nutshell. I don't exactly know why I never get tired of playing Ticket to Ride. I do like to mix it Game play is quite simple and straightforward: 1) play a end of each turn - you don't want to be in front of that! Your fellow robots may also get in 6 pm at HBB&G. ousity in previous gift exchanges. following potential combinations: At the beginning of each round, players choose an intersection on the map of the up and play the dierent maps, though. 22. Christine & Christopher picked Firey: e Game and tile to the board, if that causes the creation of a new your way or push you around and set you o course. It's crazy United States - great for teaching kids geography - as their starting place, marking it e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club • The person whose gift he picked got to choose next 4: 1 + 3 7: 3 + 4 Firey: Shiny Dice company or a merger, resolve that; 2) buy up to 3 shares of fun!!! with their depot (colored wooden disc). On your turn, you can place one or two ere are several stand-alone Ticket to Ride games: the original USA, Europe, Nordic Countries, Marklin, and the latest - reads fantasy and science ction, plus and so on. 5: 1 + 4 8: 3 + 5 stock - if you can aord it!; 3) draw a new tile. e room rails: if you cross a river or mountain, you can only place one rail, otherwise you can place Rails & Sails. Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition is a must-see - a must-have in my book! I resisted for a few weeks urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. • Participants were allowed to augment their game 23. Tim chose Firey: e Game and chocolate 6: 1 + 5 9: 4 + 5 Designed by Richard Gareld and rst published in 1994 by Avalon Hill for strategy, however, is expansive. While there is random- two. When laying your rail, you must always be able to trace a path back to your depot. then broke down and bought a copy for myself. It sports a larger, more beautifully illustrated board, 5 unique train We meet about once a month, gifts with trinkets, goodies or even a towering 24. Maia selected Power Grid and Prolix with a few hard-to-nd expansions, just the base game of Robo Rally was later ness in which tiles you draw, everything else - including Arrange the dice into the model sets in matching colored tins, the USA 1910 Expansion, and bright shiny coconut cake to make them more desirable. reprinted by Wizards of the Coast. Recently it got a reboot, this time with Connecting your railway to a fellow player's increases your possible routes/rail placements. Eventually, everyone will be usually the Friday after Game Night 25. Leslie chose Tempus, Sync Up and Catch Phrase two pairs you want to use. new graphics throughout. It's lovely. You can use the new trains on the which stocks sky rocket - is dependent on the players' pre-painted robots and a few other changes. I can't wait to try it and plan to connected before the round is over. at 6 p.m. at the store. is new method of exchange was well received, so we’ll Sometimes you can only small maps: only the long 5- and 6-train routes hang over a bit. 26. Gary, Chris & Josh picked a game bundle that actions. write it up here afterwards. When a player connects all ve of his cities, he displays his cards to conrm it. en the other players show their cards Attending members submit a book do it again that way next year. use one pair. You can included Lord of the Rings Confrontation So what was and count the least number of rails required to connect the rest of their cities, moving their locomotive towards the ere are also lots of Map expansions for Ticket to Ride: Legendary title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - progress in up to three Carcassonne (2000) I did my best to record what games were given away and my reaction Barrier on the score track accordingly. e player who successfully connected all ve of his cities doesn't have to move his Asia & Team Asia (my favorite), India & Switzerland, Heart of usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When 27. Erin & Mike chose a bundle with Acquire, Red Shirts columns (signied by the three tracking cones) on one Carcassonne At the start of a round, a round card is revealed, showing in what order they were chosen. Here’s the run-down in after I nally is an old favorite of mine. It's a tile-laying game of short-term area control - sort of. locomotive at all. Africa, Nederlands, and United Kingdom & Pennsylvania. All of the we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by and more. turn, but your turn isn't over until you either decide to how many cards will be played; whether they'll be played case you’re interested or want to make notes for next year’s played it for I've become a Carcassonne Completist - determined to own every expansion and mini-expansion, Map expansions can be played with either the original USA Ticket to Ride each member - we start a new list. It was quite a night! Stop or don’t have a legal play. For example, if in previous Collect all of the cards, shue each color separately, deal a new set to each player, choose your starting locations and take face up or face down, individually, or in pairs; and what exchange. the rst time? though not every spin-o. It seems to be a losing battle. Recently I had all but 2 of the 40 or Ticket to Ride: Europe. Learn to Play Colt Express rolls that turn, you had already committed your tracking expansions and mini expansions (some are just 1 tile). en just as the last 2 arrived from turns playing rails again until a player connects her cities. Record the scores moving locomotives along the track. Rinse action will occur at the end of the round (e.g., all bandits You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection Mythos Tales I loved it and Every expansion and stand-alone game provides its own additional set 1. Aaron chose Games of Old Lang Syne: 7 Classic cones to columns 3, 7 and 10, you would only be able to and repeat until a train crosses the Barrier. e player closest to the Engine House wins! On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Paci c on top of the train move to the engine). You can pick up and come to the meeting. More details are available on asked to play again! Germany, I discovered they'd printed a couple new promo tiles. Grrrr! of rules, adding just a little more complexity, while building on the Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers loot, gems or suitcases only by playing a "steal" card when our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and 2. Adam took Mombasa Games That Never Grow Old use the 7 you rolled (3 + 4). Should you ever roll a dice TransAmerica is a fun and quick family game. I've taught it to kids as young as four - they don't have to be able to read, A new version of Acquire just released at the end of 2016. Carcassonne play is simple: draw a landscape tile and place it, then optionally place a meeple. same simple game play. I would rate the two maps in Rails & Sails and on board. After a few minutes, gun re and hurrying you're in a train car that holds one of these items — but our Meetup Group. 3. Michael chose Ticket to Ride combination that won't let you advance in one of the just be able to match the city names on their cards with those on the board. We used to teach and play it all the time, Should auld acquaintance be forgot I'm planning to acquire a copy shortly and will post my When you place a meeple: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania as the most complex of them all. footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits since everyone is planning to get these goods, you'll need three columns you're working in, you lose all progress then it went out of print. Now that it's available again - in a bigger box for some reason, though exactly the same game - Current Reading List: 4. Tilak selected the towering coconut cake with a bundle and never brought to mind thoughts on it after playing it a few times. e publisher • on a Road, he becomes a Robber and scores you 1 point per tile of the road when the road Summary have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and to move, punch and shoot to get others out of your way. made that turn. Remove the white cones from the board we can introduce it to more families! of games Should auld acquaintance be forgot made quite a few changes, so I'm intrigued to see how is nished. jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding You can punch someone only in the same car as you, and If you have copies you’d like to trade or sell, please and play passes to the next player. I hope I've demonstrated with this list of Games of Old Lang Syne, that games of days gone by can be just as exciting those work before commenting. Ticket to Ride (2004) the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it when you do, the other bandit drops one of the goods bring them in. 5. Carissa picked Forbidden Stars and games of auld lang syne. e push-your-luck element of Can't Stop makes play • in a City, he becomes a Knight scoring you 2 points per tile when the city is completed. and fun to play as the latest entry to the Cult of the New list. More so: you know them, you like them - love them even. Ticket to Ride is one of my favorite games of all time - in all its many forms! I having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel Ford? Will these bandits he's collected and is knocked into an adjacent car. • Legacy of Heorot or Lucifer’s Hammer or Footfall by 6. Scott & Gabriel selected Pandemic: Cthulhu It's so easy to focus solely on the latest releases when Can't Stop (1980) quick, lively and very addicting. It's just as fun with 2 • on a Cloister, he becomes a monk, scoring 9 points for you when the cloister is complete: surrounded by 8 tiles, 4 Playing them brings back fond memories of past plays and times spent with friends and loved ones. Plus, you don't have never tire of playing it, so it of course deserves a spot on this Games of Auld hinder one another more than the Marshal since only the richest one of them can Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle or e Door Into choosing games to review, that I thought I'd change players as with 3 or 4. sides and 4 diagonals. to spend time learning new rules: just sit down and play. Each player's character has a special power, such as start- 7. Kat & Daniel took home Space Alert & Gearworld I rst met Can't Stop on Board Game Lang Syne list. I really need to write about my favorite games more often. come out on top? Summer by Robert Heinlein or Sundiver by David things up a bit and reect on some of my favorite games Scotland Yard (1983) • lying flat on a field, he becomes a farmer. Farmers score only at the end of the game, yielding 3 points per com- ing the round with an extra card, playing your rst card Arena when my husband introduced Too many games, too little time. But I digress. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Pilgrimage: e Book of the People 8. Brent grabbed Mice & Mystics and a gogeous handmade of auld lang syne. I have so many old favorites that I still pleted city served (touched) by the farm. In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other face down, or pocketing a bag of loot when you punch Brin or by Zenna me to the game. It was immediately Scotland Yard has you and your fellow detectives running Should auld acquaintance be forgot and games of auld lang syne. Henderson (Carmen) castle dice tower which he later gifted to me. play, I decided to narrow the eld by eliminating games Ticket to Ride is a set collection, route-building game. e designer, Alan bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. e someone instead of letting it hit the ground. addicting even though I lost big time all over London chasing down the elusive Mr. X (played After scoring a completed feature, you get your meeple back and can use it again in a later turn. And days of auld lang syne, my dear and games of auld lang syne. Goblin Quest Explaining Cthulhu 9. Nelson selected Mysterium that aren't currently in print. I wouldn't want to get you the rst several times I played. My Moon, somehow came up with the perfect formula balancing interesting game consists of ve rounds, and each round has two phases: You can shoot someone in an adjacent car or (if you're • by Jim C. Hines or by one player). Mr. X's job is to move from point-to- Each large expansion adds new tiles, new meeples and new rules. Some of the mini-expansions also add new game pieces We'll raise a cup of kindness, dear to games of auld lang syne. to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvartsman all excited about a game only to tell you that it's not husband remarked that he had owned game play with simple, streamlined rules. Phase 1: Schemin' - Prepare the train robbery by playing your Action cards (2 to running on top of the train) anyone in sight, and when 10. Richard chose Mage Wars Arena point around the map of London via taxi, bus or subway, and rules as well. Many of the promo mini-expansions just add a few new tiles, usually with some new twist to the rules. 3 available right now. at would just be mean. and loved it as a kid, so I went looking for a Issue 46 Here Be Books & Games News January 2017

5) on the common pile, with cards face up or face down you do, you give that player one of your six bullet cards; (Diane) 11. John took home Kingdom Builder Big Box All of these games of days-gone-by were rst published at copy, discovered it was back in print (end of 2014) and ducking, hiding, back-tracking even to confuse the detectives (the rest of the players) pursuing I've never played a game with all of the expansions, but I have played many games with multiple Each player starts the game with a set of four Tickets each showing two cities that need to be connected (should he depending on the type of the current round. Instead of that card gets shued in the opponent's deck, possibly • Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Jonathan) 12. Brent picked up Path nder ACG: Wrath of the Righ- least 10 years ago and all of them are currently in print. I'll immediately bought it for Tim for Christmas. Man was him. While the detectives are almost always informed of Mr. X's mode of transportation, his expansions. I even created several emed Carcassonne Combos decide to keep the Ticket). You have to keep at least two of them, but you can keep more. It's a good idea to try to keep playing a card, a player may draw three cards from her giving her a dead card in hand on a future turn and start with the oldest, provide a quick overview, then follow he surprised. It's hard to surprise my husband. exact location is only sighted a few times during the game. e pursuing detectives also move by Tickets whose routes can overlap or travel in the same general direction. Any Tickets completed by the end of the game Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup teous and expansions (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193814/) that if you played all of deck. forcing her to draw instead of playing something. If the up with more detail on a few of them in my next few posts. taxi, bus or subway, attempting to apprehend Mr. X by moving onto his current location. If the score you the points noted in the corner of the Tickets; any not completed score that number of negative points. Players group at: At any rate, we stocked it for awhile, until it went out of them you would've played almost all of the expansions - all that I had at the Marshal ends up in the same car as you, likely due to 13. Adam chose Witcher & Adventure Time Fluxx Some, I've already covered in great detail, in which case I'll detectives don't apprehend Mr. X within a set number of turns, Mr. X escapes to continue his time anyway. also each receive four colored Train cards. e colored Train cards correspond with the colored spaces on the board of the Phase 2: Stealin' - Check to make sure everything is www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club. print again. But I'm quite happy to say it's back! going o as planned and that you've avoided enemy other bandits luring him through the train, he'll be happy 14. Derek took home Abyss just link to that post. :-) On to the games... nefarious crime spree. Carcassonne got an updated look in 2015 with new artwork. I covered it in a routes you can claim. On your turn, you can do one of the following actions: to give you a bullet, too. So what's the game like? Can't Stop is a push-your-luck bullets. e action cards are carried out in the order they Game Gift Exchange Recap 15. Jacob picked 7 Wonders and Welcome Back to the Acquire (1964) dice game. Your goal is to be the rst player to claim three Scotland Yard has seen many iterations, reboots and re-themes in its long post on eGlassMeeple.com. I've also written about the six numbered mini- • Take 1 or 2 Train cards from the face-up selection of 5 cards, the top of the deck or a combination of both. If you were played, with a player's best-laid plans possibly going At the end of the game, whoever red the most bullets 55 gamers attended December’s Game Dungeon I was quite averse to even trying this columns, by reaching their tops rst with your cones - print history. Among the most beautiful and thematic re-themes are Fury expansions, my favorite e Phantom, the large Hills & Sheep expansion and the Carcassonne: South Seas spin-o on e take a face-up Locomotive (wild card that can be played as any color), that's the only card you can take that turn. awry due to mistakes and oversights! receives a $1,000 braggart bonus, and whoever bagged the Night and Game Gift Exchange. Many 16. Jason chose King of Tokyo and some neat arwork game. Somehow I had gotten the they look like the safety cones used on streets. Once a of Dracula (currently available, but out-of-print) and Letters from Whi- Glass Meeple. • Claim a Route by laying down cards of the color and quantity corresponding to the entire route between two richest haul wins! impression that Acquire was long, techapel (between printings right now). In 1991, Parker Brothers added it adjacent cities that you wish to claim and placing your colored trains to signify it. Grey routes can be claimed with Colt Express takes place in a 3D train in which the bandits people brought treats to share - Carissa’s 17. Diane selected a basket of games that included If column is claimed, it is considered Closed and you can no Now if I could just get those last few tiles before they make more!!! arduous and cutthroat. Not liking to its Clue line as Clue: e Great Museum Caper with a neat 3-D board. a set of any one color of Train cards. Locomotives are wild and work as any color. can move from one car to another, run on the roof, punch You can learn to play Colt Express at Here Be Books & pie was my favorite, and her towering Wishes Were Fishes, Ticket to Ride: e Card Game and longer play in that column. e columns are numbered 2 TransAmerica (2002) games with lots of direct conict, I New York Chase and seven other re-implementations are listed in the Board Game Geek • Take Tickets. You'll usually only do this when you've completed or almost completed your initial Tickets. Remem- the other bandits, shoot 'em, rob the passengers, or draw Games, January 21, 2017 from 1 to 5 p.m. We’ll even cocunut cake was delectable. Tilak, who some homemade meeple and robot ornaments to 12 which corresponds with the possible results you can the Marshal out of position. e train has as many cars as give you a copy of the Colt Express: Cursed Loot promo for received it in the game bundle he avoided it like the plague. Turns out get with a pair of dice. You advance your cones up a database. Scotland Yard is itself in print and available as I write this. TransAmerica is one of the rst modern board games I learned when we really got into ber any uncompleted Tickets at the end of the game score negative points. Don't announce it when you've com- the number of players, and each car is seeded with gems, trying the game out. (While supplies last.) Just drop by and chose in the Gift Exchange, shared it 18. Tina elected Hacienda and Salmon Run I was wrong on all counts. It's column with dice rolls. You each get your own set of Robo Rally (1994) board games. e concept is simple: connect the ve city cards in your hand by rail, one pleted a Ticket. Completed Tickets are only scored at the end of the game. To Take Tickets, draw four Tickets from city from each of the ve colored regions on the board, before any of the other players bags of loot or suitcases at the start of the game. Each we’ll teach you how to play! Admission is FREE. with the attendees in celebration of his friend Prabhu’s 19. William picked Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert neither long, arduous, nor cutthroat and there really colored cones to keep track of your progress in the the top of the Ticket deck. You must keep at least one, but you can keep more than one if you desire. I love Robo Rally. It is the most chaotic, crazy, fun, programmed-movement racing game connect theirs. player starts a round with six cards in hand, with each birthday. (since this was Aaron’s gift we rolled a die to see who got isn't any direct conict, just a vying for majority stock in columns - placed or moved at the end of your turn if I’ve ever played. Each player takes a cute little robot gure and places it on the starting line. When one player has two or fewer trains left, after claiming a route, all players, including that player get one more turn. Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting the seven hotels (original versions) or companies (later card showing one of these actions. We changed up the rules of the Gift Exchange this year: next pick) you're successful. en it's a race around the factory oor to make it to all of the ags rst. Of course, there TransAmerica is played over a series of rounds. Players start with their locomotive at the en the game is over. Players then each reveal their Tickets, one at a time, tracing the path between the cities depicted Current Read: Something Wicked is Way Comes by Ray versions). Actually, vying for majority stock isn't even the are all sorts of things on the factory oor to impede your progress like fast and slow Engine House at one end of the score track. As they score points each round, they on their Ticket - or not if they weren't successful - and scoring points accordingly. Finally, the player with the Longest • Everyone brought an unwrapped game or bundle of 20. Cameron chose Codenames: After Dark, Archer Love On your turn, take the three tracking cones (usually Bradbury (Jason’s pick) goal of the game, the goal is just to make the most money conveyor belts, gears that will turn you around if you end your turn there, laser beams to move closer and closer to the Barrier at the other end of the score track. You don't Continuous Route of trains, score a 10 point bonus. e player with the highest scores wins. games whose original MSRP was $50 or more. Letter, Scattergories and some decoder rings white), then roll the 4 dice. You have to use the dice you and become the wealthiest player. rolled in pairs. So, a roll of 1, 3, 4, 5, would provide the watch out for - and don't forget your fellow robots. ey shoot their own laser beams at the want want to go past the Barrier, so scoring points is a bad thing. Next Meeting: Friday, January 13 at • Aaron Cox was elected to go first due to his gener- 21. Callan selected the fancy Star Trek Panic basket And that's the game in a nutshell. I don't exactly know why I never get tired of playing Ticket to Ride. I do like to mix it Game play is quite simple and straightforward: 1) play a end of each turn - you don't want to be in front of that! Your fellow robots may also get in 6 pm at HBB&G. ousity in previous gift exchanges. following potential combinations: At the beginning of each round, players choose an intersection on the map of the up and play the dierent maps, though. 22. Christine & Christopher picked Firey: e Game and tile to the board, if that causes the creation of a new your way or push you around and set you o course. It's crazy United States - great for teaching kids geography - as their starting place, marking it e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club • The person whose gift he picked got to choose next 4: 1 + 3 7: 3 + 4 Firey: Shiny Dice company or a merger, resolve that; 2) buy up to 3 shares of fun!!! with their depot (colored wooden disc). On your turn, you can place one or two ere are several stand-alone Ticket to Ride games: the original USA, Europe, Nordic Countries, Marklin, and the latest - reads fantasy and science ction, plus and so on. 5: 1 + 4 8: 3 + 5 stock - if you can aord it!; 3) draw a new tile. e room rails: if you cross a river or mountain, you can only place one rail, otherwise you can place Rails & Sails. Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition is a must-see - a must-have in my book! I resisted for a few weeks urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. • Participants were allowed to augment their game 23. Tim chose Firey: e Game and chocolate 6: 1 + 5 9: 4 + 5 Designed by Richard Gareld and rst published in 1994 by Avalon Hill for strategy, however, is expansive. While there is random- two. When laying your rail, you must always be able to trace a path back to your depot. then broke down and bought a copy for myself. It sports a larger, more beautifully illustrated board, 5 unique train We meet about once a month, gifts with trinkets, goodies or even a towering 24. Maia selected Power Grid and Prolix with a few hard-to-nd expansions, just the base game of Robo Rally was later ness in which tiles you draw, everything else - including Arrange the dice into the model sets in matching colored tins, the USA 1910 Expansion, and bright shiny coconut cake to make them more desirable. reprinted by Wizards of the Coast. Recently it got a reboot, this time with Connecting your railway to a fellow player's increases your possible routes/rail placements. Eventually, everyone will be usually the Friday after Game Night 25. Leslie chose Tempus, Sync Up and Catch Phrase two pairs you want to use. new graphics throughout. It's lovely. You can use the new trains on the which stocks sky rocket - is dependent on the players' pre-painted robots and a few other changes. I can't wait to try it and plan to connected before the round is over. at 6 p.m. at the store. is new method of exchange was well received, so we’ll Sometimes you can only small maps: only the long 5- and 6-train routes hang over a bit. 26. Gary, Chris & Josh picked a game bundle that actions. write it up here afterwards. When a player connects all ve of his cities, he displays his cards to conrm it. en the other players show their cards Attending members submit a book do it again that way next year. use one pair. You can included Lord of the Rings Confrontation So what was and count the least number of rails required to connect the rest of their cities, moving their locomotive towards the ere are also lots of Map expansions for Ticket to Ride: Legendary title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - progress in up to three Carcassonne (2000) I did my best to record what games were given away and my reaction Barrier on the score track accordingly. e player who successfully connected all ve of his cities doesn't have to move his Asia & Team Asia (my favorite), India & Switzerland, Heart of usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When 27. Erin & Mike chose a bundle with Acquire, Red Shirts columns (signied by the three tracking cones) on one Carcassonne At the start of a round, a round card is revealed, showing in what order they were chosen. Here’s the run-down in after I nally is an old favorite of mine. It's a tile-laying game of short-term area control - sort of. locomotive at all. Africa, Nederlands, and United Kingdom & Pennsylvania. All of the we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by and more. turn, but your turn isn't over until you either decide to how many cards will be played; whether they'll be played case you’re interested or want to make notes for next year’s played it for I've become a Carcassonne Completist - determined to own every expansion and mini-expansion, Map expansions can be played with either the original USA Ticket to Ride each member - we start a new list. It was quite a night! Stop or don’t have a legal play. For example, if in previous Collect all of the cards, shue each color separately, deal a new set to each player, choose your starting locations and take face up or face down, individually, or in pairs; and what exchange. the rst time? though not every spin-o. It seems to be a losing battle. Recently I had all but 2 of the 40 or Ticket to Ride: Europe. Learn to Play Colt Express rolls that turn, you had already committed your tracking expansions and mini expansions (some are just 1 tile). en just as the last 2 arrived from turns playing rails again until a player connects her cities. Record the scores moving locomotives along the track. Rinse action will occur at the end of the round (e.g., all bandits You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection Mythos Tales I loved it and Every expansion and stand-alone game provides its own additional set 1. Aaron chose Games of Old Lang Syne: 7 Classic cones to columns 3, 7 and 10, you would only be able to and repeat until a train crosses the Barrier. e player closest to the Engine House wins! On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Paci c on top of the train move to the engine). You can pick up and come to the meeting. More details are available on asked to play again! Germany, I discovered they'd printed a couple new promo tiles. Grrrr! of rules, adding just a little more complexity, while building on the Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers loot, gems or suitcases only by playing a "steal" card when our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and 2. Adam took Mombasa Games That Never Grow Old use the 7 you rolled (3 + 4). Should you ever roll a dice TransAmerica is a fun and quick family game. I've taught it to kids as young as four - they don't have to be able to read, A new version of Acquire just released at the end of 2016. Carcassonne play is simple: draw a landscape tile and place it, then optionally place a meeple. same simple game play. I would rate the two maps in Rails & Sails and on board. After a few minutes, gun re and hurrying you're in a train car that holds one of these items — but our Meetup Group. 3. Michael chose Ticket to Ride combination that won't let you advance in one of the just be able to match the city names on their cards with those on the board. We used to teach and play it all the time, Should auld acquaintance be forgot I'm planning to acquire a copy shortly and will post my When you place a meeple: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania as the most complex of them all. footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits since everyone is planning to get these goods, you'll need three columns you're working in, you lose all progress then it went out of print. Now that it's available again - in a bigger box for some reason, though exactly the same game - Current Reading List: 4. Tilak selected the towering coconut cake with a bundle and never brought to mind thoughts on it after playing it a few times. e publisher • on a Road, he becomes a Robber and scores you 1 point per tile of the road when the road Summary have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and to move, punch and shoot to get others out of your way. made that turn. Remove the white cones from the board we can introduce it to more families! of games Should auld acquaintance be forgot made quite a few changes, so I'm intrigued to see how is nished. jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding You can punch someone only in the same car as you, and If you have copies you’d like to trade or sell, please and play passes to the next player. I hope I've demonstrated with this list of Games of Old Lang Syne, that games of days gone by can be just as exciting those work before commenting. Ticket to Ride (2004) the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it when you do, the other bandit drops one of the goods bring them in. 5. Carissa picked Forbidden Stars and games of auld lang syne. e push-your-luck element of Can't Stop makes play • in a City, he becomes a Knight scoring you 2 points per tile when the city is completed. and fun to play as the latest entry to the Cult of the New list. More so: you know them, you like them - love them even. Ticket to Ride is one of my favorite games of all time - in all its many forms! I having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel Ford? Will these bandits he's collected and is knocked into an adjacent car. • Legacy of Heorot or Lucifer’s Hammer or Footfall by 6. Scott & Gabriel selected Pandemic: Cthulhu It's so easy to focus solely on the latest releases when Can't Stop (1980) quick, lively and very addicting. It's just as fun with 2 • on a Cloister, he becomes a monk, scoring 9 points for you when the cloister is complete: surrounded by 8 tiles, 4 Playing them brings back fond memories of past plays and times spent with friends and loved ones. Plus, you don't have never tire of playing it, so it of course deserves a spot on this Games of Auld hinder one another more than the Marshal since only the richest one of them can Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle or e Door Into choosing games to review, that I thought I'd change players as with 3 or 4. sides and 4 diagonals. to spend time learning new rules: just sit down and play. Each player's character has a special power, such as start- 7. Kat & Daniel took home Space Alert & Gearworld I rst met Can't Stop on Board Game Lang Syne list. I really need to write about my favorite games more often. come out on top? Summer by Robert Heinlein or Sundiver by David things up a bit and reect on some of my favorite games Scotland Yard (1983) • lying flat on a field, he becomes a farmer. Farmers score only at the end of the game, yielding 3 points per com- ing the round with an extra card, playing your rst card Arena when my husband introduced Too many games, too little time. But I digress. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Pilgrimage: e Book of the People 8. Brent grabbed Mice & Mystics and a gogeous handmade of auld lang syne. I have so many old favorites that I still pleted city served (touched) by the farm. In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other face down, or pocketing a bag of loot when you punch Brin or by Zenna me to the game. It was immediately Scotland Yard has you and your fellow detectives running Should auld acquaintance be forgot and games of auld lang syne. Henderson (Carmen) castle dice tower which he later gifted to me. play, I decided to narrow the eld by eliminating games Ticket to Ride is a set collection, route-building game. e designer, Alan bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. e someone instead of letting it hit the ground. addicting even though I lost big time all over London chasing down the elusive Mr. X (played After scoring a completed feature, you get your meeple back and can use it again in a later turn. And days of auld lang syne, my dear and games of auld lang syne. Goblin Quest Explaining Cthulhu 9. Nelson selected Mysterium that aren't currently in print. I wouldn't want to get you the rst several times I played. My Moon, somehow came up with the perfect formula balancing interesting game consists of ve rounds, and each round has two phases: You can shoot someone in an adjacent car or (if you're • by Jim C. Hines or by one player). Mr. X's job is to move from point-to- Each large expansion adds new tiles, new meeples and new rules. Some of the mini-expansions also add new game pieces We'll raise a cup of kindness, dear to games of auld lang syne. to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvartsman all excited about a game only to tell you that it's not husband remarked that he had owned game play with simple, streamlined rules. Phase 1: Schemin' - Prepare the train robbery by playing your Action cards (2 to running on top of the train) anyone in sight, and when 10. Richard chose Mage Wars Arena point around the map of London via taxi, bus or subway, and rules as well. Many of the promo mini-expansions just add a few new tiles, usually with some new twist to the rules. available right now. at would just be mean. and loved it as a kid, so I went looking for a 4 Issue 46 Here Be Books & Games News January 2017

5) on the common pile, with cards face up or face down you do, you give that player one of your six bullet cards; (Diane) 11. John took home Kingdom Builder Big Box All of these games of days-gone-by were rst published at copy, discovered it was back in print (end of 2014) and ducking, hiding, back-tracking even to confuse the detectives (the rest of the players) pursuing I've never played a game with all of the expansions, but I have played many games with multiple Each player starts the game with a set of four Tickets each showing two cities that need to be connected (should he depending on the type of the current round. Instead of that card gets shued in the opponent's deck, possibly • Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Jonathan) 12. Brent picked up Path nder ACG: Wrath of the Righ- least 10 years ago and all of them are currently in print. I'll immediately bought it for Tim for Christmas. Man was him. While the detectives are almost always informed of Mr. X's mode of transportation, his expansions. I even created several emed Carcassonne Combos decide to keep the Ticket). You have to keep at least two of them, but you can keep more. It's a good idea to try to keep he surprised. It's hard to surprise my husband. playing a card, a player may draw three cards from her giving her a dead card in hand on a future turn and Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup teous and expansions start with the oldest, provide a quick overview, then follow exact location is only sighted a few times during the game. e pursuing detectives also move by (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193814/) that if you played all of Tickets whose routes can overlap or travel in the same general direction. Any Tickets completed by the end of the game deck. forcing her to draw instead of playing something. If the group at: up with more detail on a few of them in my next few posts. At any rate, we stocked it for awhile, until it went out of taxi, bus or subway, attempting to apprehend Mr. X by moving onto his current location. If the them you would've played almost all of the expansions - all that I had at the score you the points noted in the corner of the Tickets; any not completed score that number of negative points. Players Marshal ends up in the same car as you, likely due to 13. Adam chose Witcher & Adventure Time Fluxx Some, I've already covered in great detail, in which case I'll detectives don't apprehend Mr. X within a set number of turns, Mr. X escapes to continue his time anyway. also each receive four colored Train cards. e colored Train cards correspond with the colored spaces on the board of the Phase 2: Stealin' - Check to make sure everything is www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club. print again. But I'm quite happy to say it's back! going o as planned and that you've avoided enemy other bandits luring him through the train, he'll be happy 14. Derek took home Abyss just link to that post. :-) On to the games... nefarious crime spree. Carcassonne got an updated look in 2015 with new artwork. I covered it in a routes you can claim. On your turn, you can do one of the following actions: to give you a bullet, too. So what's the game like? Can't Stop is a push-your-luck bullets. e action cards are carried out in the order they Game Gift Exchange Recap 15. Jacob picked 7 Wonders and Welcome Back to the Acquire (1964) dice game. Your goal is to be the rst player to claim three Scotland Yard has seen many iterations, reboots and re-themes in its long post on eGlassMeeple.com. I've also written about the six numbered mini- • Take 1 or 2 Train cards from the face-up selection of 5 cards, the top of the deck or a combination of both. If you were played, with a player's best-laid plans possibly going At the end of the game, whoever red the most bullets 55 gamers attended December’s Game Dungeon I was quite averse to even trying this columns, by reaching their tops rst with your cones - print history. Among the most beautiful and thematic re-themes are Fury expansions, my favorite e Phantom, the large Hills & Sheep expansion and the Carcassonne: South Seas spin-o on e take a face-up Locomotive (wild card that can be played as any color), that's the only card you can take that turn. awry due to mistakes and oversights! receives a $1,000 braggart bonus, and whoever bagged the Night and Game Gift Exchange. Many 16. Jason chose King of Tokyo and some neat arwork game. Somehow I had gotten the they look like the safety cones used on streets. Once a of Dracula (currently available, but out-of-print) and Letters from Whi- Glass Meeple. • Claim a Route by laying down cards of the color and quantity corresponding to the entire route between two richest haul wins! impression that Acquire was long, techapel (between printings right now). In 1991, Parker Brothers added it adjacent cities that you wish to claim and placing your colored trains to signify it. Grey routes can be claimed with Colt Express takes place in a 3D train in which the bandits people brought treats to share - Carissa’s 17. Diane selected a basket of games that included If column is claimed, it is considered Closed and you can no Now if I could just get those last few tiles before they make more!!! arduous and cutthroat. Not liking to its Clue line as Clue: e Great Museum Caper with a neat 3-D board. a set of any one color of Train cards. Locomotives are wild and work as any color. can move from one car to another, run on the roof, punch You can learn to play Colt Express at Here Be Books & pie was my favorite, and her towering Wishes Were Fishes, Ticket to Ride: e Card Game and longer play in that column. e columns are numbered 2 TransAmerica (2002) games with lots of direct conict, I New York Chase and seven other re-implementations are listed in the Board Game Geek • Take Tickets. You'll usually only do this when you've completed or almost completed your initial Tickets. Remem- the other bandits, shoot 'em, rob the passengers, or draw Games, January 21, 2017 from 1 to 5 p.m. We’ll even cocunut cake was delectable. Tilak, who some homemade meeple and robot ornaments to 12 which corresponds with the possible results you can the Marshal out of position. e train has as many cars as give you a copy of the Colt Express: Cursed Loot promo for received it in the game bundle he avoided it like the plague. Turns out get with a pair of dice. You advance your cones up a database. Scotland Yard is itself in print and available as I write this. TransAmerica is one of the rst modern board games I learned when we really got into ber any uncompleted Tickets at the end of the game score negative points. Don't announce it when you've com- the number of players, and each car is seeded with gems, trying the game out. (While supplies last.) Just drop by and chose in the Gift Exchange, shared it 18. Tina elected Hacienda and Salmon Run I was wrong on all counts. It's column with dice rolls. You each get your own set of Robo Rally (1994) board games. e concept is simple: connect the ve city cards in your hand by rail, one pleted a Ticket. Completed Tickets are only scored at the end of the game. To Take Tickets, draw four Tickets from city from each of the ve colored regions on the board, before any of the other players bags of loot or suitcases at the start of the game. Each we’ll teach you how to play! Admission is FREE. with the attendees in celebration of his friend Prabhu’s 19. William picked Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert neither long, arduous, nor cutthroat and there really colored cones to keep track of your progress in the the top of the Ticket deck. You must keep at least one, but you can keep more than one if you desire. I love Robo Rally. It is the most chaotic, crazy, fun, programmed-movement racing game connect theirs. player starts a round with six cards in hand, with each birthday. (since this was Aaron’s gift we rolled a die to see who got isn't any direct conict, just a vying for majority stock in columns - placed or moved at the end of your turn if I’ve ever played. Each player takes a cute little robot gure and places it on the starting line. When one player has two or fewer trains left, after claiming a route, all players, including that player get one more turn. Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting the seven hotels (original versions) or companies (later card showing one of these actions. We changed up the rules of the Gift Exchange this year: next pick) you're successful. en it's a race around the factory oor to make it to all of the ags rst. Of course, there TransAmerica is played over a series of rounds. Players start with their locomotive at the en the game is over. Players then each reveal their Tickets, one at a time, tracing the path between the cities depicted Current Read: Something Wicked is Way Comes by Ray versions). Actually, vying for majority stock isn't even the are all sorts of things on the factory oor to impede your progress like fast and slow Engine House at one end of the score track. As they score points each round, they on their Ticket - or not if they weren't successful - and scoring points accordingly. Finally, the player with the Longest • Everyone brought an unwrapped game or bundle of 20. Cameron chose Codenames: After Dark, Archer Love On your turn, take the three tracking cones (usually Bradbury (Jason’s pick) goal of the game, the goal is just to make the most money conveyor belts, gears that will turn you around if you end your turn there, laser beams to move closer and closer to the Barrier at the other end of the score track. You don't Continuous Route of trains, score a 10 point bonus. e player with the highest scores wins. games whose original MSRP was $50 or more. Letter, Scattergories and some decoder rings white), then roll the 4 dice. You have to use the dice you and become the wealthiest player. rolled in pairs. So, a roll of 1, 3, 4, 5, would provide the watch out for - and don't forget your fellow robots. ey shoot their own laser beams at the want want to go past the Barrier, so scoring points is a bad thing. Next Meeting: Friday, January 13 at • Aaron Cox was elected to go first due to his gener- 21. Callan selected the fancy Star Trek Panic basket And that's the game in a nutshell. I don't exactly know why I never get tired of playing Ticket to Ride. I do like to mix it Game play is quite simple and straightforward: 1) play a end of each turn - you don't want to be in front of that! Your fellow robots may also get in 6 pm at HBB&G. ousity in previous gift exchanges. following potential combinations: At the beginning of each round, players choose an intersection on the map of the up and play the dierent maps, though. 22. Christine & Christopher picked Firey: e Game and tile to the board, if that causes the creation of a new your way or push you around and set you o course. It's crazy United States - great for teaching kids geography - as their starting place, marking it e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club • The person whose gift he picked got to choose next 4: 1 + 3 7: 3 + 4 Firey: Shiny Dice company or a merger, resolve that; 2) buy up to 3 shares of fun!!! with their depot (colored wooden disc). On your turn, you can place one or two ere are several stand-alone Ticket to Ride games: the original USA, Europe, Nordic Countries, Marklin, and the latest - reads fantasy and science ction, plus and so on. 5: 1 + 4 8: 3 + 5 stock - if you can aord it!; 3) draw a new tile. e room rails: if you cross a river or mountain, you can only place one rail, otherwise you can place Rails & Sails. Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition is a must-see - a must-have in my book! I resisted for a few weeks urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. • Participants were allowed to augment their game 23. Tim chose Firey: e Game and chocolate 6: 1 + 5 9: 4 + 5 Designed by Richard Gareld and rst published in 1994 by Avalon Hill for strategy, however, is expansive. While there is random- two. When laying your rail, you must always be able to trace a path back to your depot. then broke down and bought a copy for myself. It sports a larger, more beautifully illustrated board, 5 unique train We meet about once a month, gifts with trinkets, goodies or even a towering 24. Maia selected Power Grid and Prolix with a few hard-to-nd expansions, just the base game of Robo Rally was later ness in which tiles you draw, everything else - including Arrange the dice into the model sets in matching colored tins, the USA 1910 Expansion, and bright shiny coconut cake to make them more desirable. reprinted by Wizards of the Coast. Recently it got a reboot, this time with Connecting your railway to a fellow player's increases your possible routes/rail placements. Eventually, everyone will be usually the Friday after Game Night 25. Leslie chose Tempus, Sync Up and Catch Phrase two pairs you want to use. new graphics throughout. It's lovely. You can use the new trains on the which stocks sky rocket - is dependent on the players' pre-painted robots and a few other changes. I can't wait to try it and plan to connected before the round is over. at 6 p.m. at the store. is new method of exchange was well received, so we’ll Sometimes you can only small maps: only the long 5- and 6-train routes hang over a bit. 26. Gary, Chris & Josh picked a game bundle that actions. write it up here afterwards. When a player connects all ve of his cities, he displays his cards to conrm it. en the other players show their cards Attending members submit a book do it again that way next year. use one pair. You can included Lord of the Rings Confrontation So what was and count the least number of rails required to connect the rest of their cities, moving their locomotive towards the ere are also lots of Map expansions for Ticket to Ride: Legendary title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - progress in up to three Carcassonne (2000) I did my best to record what games were given away and my reaction Barrier on the score track accordingly. e player who successfully connected all ve of his cities doesn't have to move his Asia & Team Asia (my favorite), India & Switzerland, Heart of usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When 27. Erin & Mike chose a bundle with Acquire, Red Shirts columns (signied by the three tracking cones) on one Carcassonne At the start of a round, a round card is revealed, showing in what order they were chosen. Here’s the run-down in after I nally is an old favorite of mine. It's a tile-laying game of short-term area control - sort of. locomotive at all. Africa, Nederlands, and United Kingdom & Pennsylvania. All of the we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by and more. turn, but your turn isn't over until you either decide to how many cards will be played; whether they'll be played case you’re interested or want to make notes for next year’s played it for I've become a Carcassonne Completist - determined to own every expansion and mini-expansion, Map expansions can be played with either the original USA Ticket to Ride each member - we start a new list. It was quite a night! Stop or don’t have a legal play. For example, if in previous Collect all of the cards, shue each color separately, deal a new set to each player, choose your starting locations and take face up or face down, individually, or in pairs; and what exchange. the rst time? though not every spin-o. It seems to be a losing battle. Recently I had all but 2 of the 40 or Ticket to Ride: Europe. Learn to Play Colt Express rolls that turn, you had already committed your tracking expansions and mini expansions (some are just 1 tile). en just as the last 2 arrived from turns playing rails again until a player connects her cities. Record the scores moving locomotives along the track. Rinse action will occur at the end of the round (e.g., all bandits You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection Mythos Tales I loved it and Every expansion and stand-alone game provides its own additional set 1. Aaron chose Games of Old Lang Syne: 7 Classic cones to columns 3, 7 and 10, you would only be able to and repeat until a train crosses the Barrier. e player closest to the Engine House wins! On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Paci c on top of the train move to the engine). You can pick up and come to the meeting. More details are available on asked to play again! Germany, I discovered they'd printed a couple new promo tiles. Grrrr! of rules, adding just a little more complexity, while building on the Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers loot, gems or suitcases only by playing a "steal" card when our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and 2. Adam took Mombasa Games That Never Grow Old use the 7 you rolled (3 + 4). Should you ever roll a dice TransAmerica is a fun and quick family game. I've taught it to kids as young as four - they don't have to be able to read, A new version of Acquire just released at the end of 2016. Carcassonne play is simple: draw a landscape tile and place it, then optionally place a meeple. same simple game play. I would rate the two maps in Rails & Sails and on board. After a few minutes, gun re and hurrying you're in a train car that holds one of these items — but our Meetup Group. 3. Michael chose Ticket to Ride combination that won't let you advance in one of the just be able to match the city names on their cards with those on the board. We used to teach and play it all the time, Should auld acquaintance be forgot I'm planning to acquire a copy shortly and will post my When you place a meeple: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania as the most complex of them all. footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits since everyone is planning to get these goods, you'll need three columns you're working in, you lose all progress then it went out of print. Now that it's available again - in a bigger box for some reason, though exactly the same game - Current Reading List: 4. Tilak selected the towering coconut cake with a bundle and never brought to mind thoughts on it after playing it a few times. e publisher • on a Road, he becomes a Robber and scores you 1 point per tile of the road when the road Summary have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and to move, punch and shoot to get others out of your way. made that turn. Remove the white cones from the board we can introduce it to more families! of games Should auld acquaintance be forgot made quite a few changes, so I'm intrigued to see how is nished. jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding You can punch someone only in the same car as you, and If you have copies you’d like to trade or sell, please and play passes to the next player. I hope I've demonstrated with this list of Games of Old Lang Syne, that games of days gone by can be just as exciting those work before commenting. Ticket to Ride (2004) the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it when you do, the other bandit drops one of the goods bring them in. 5. Carissa picked Forbidden Stars and games of auld lang syne. e push-your-luck element of Can't Stop makes play • in a City, he becomes a Knight scoring you 2 points per tile when the city is completed. and fun to play as the latest entry to the Cult of the New list. More so: you know them, you like them - love them even. Ticket to Ride is one of my favorite games of all time - in all its many forms! I having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel Ford? Will these bandits he's collected and is knocked into an adjacent car. • Legacy of Heorot or Lucifer’s Hammer or Footfall by 6. Scott & Gabriel selected Pandemic: Cthulhu It's so easy to focus solely on the latest releases when Can't Stop (1980) quick, lively and very addicting. It's just as fun with 2 • on a Cloister, he becomes a monk, scoring 9 points for you when the cloister is complete: surrounded by 8 tiles, 4 Playing them brings back fond memories of past plays and times spent with friends and loved ones. Plus, you don't have never tire of playing it, so it of course deserves a spot on this Games of Auld hinder one another more than the Marshal since only the richest one of them can Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle or e Door Into choosing games to review, that I thought I'd change players as with 3 or 4. sides and 4 diagonals. to spend time learning new rules: just sit down and play. Each player's character has a special power, such as start- 7. Kat & Daniel took home Space Alert & Gearworld I rst met Can't Stop on Board Game Lang Syne list. I really need to write about my favorite games more often. come out on top? Summer by Robert Heinlein or Sundiver by David things up a bit and reect on some of my favorite games Scotland Yard (1983) • lying flat on a field, he becomes a farmer. Farmers score only at the end of the game, yielding 3 points per com- ing the round with an extra card, playing your rst card Arena when my husband introduced Too many games, too little time. But I digress. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Pilgrimage: e Book of the People 8. Brent grabbed Mice & Mystics and a gogeous handmade of auld lang syne. I have so many old favorites that I still pleted city served (touched) by the farm. In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other face down, or pocketing a bag of loot when you punch Brin or by Zenna me to the game. It was immediately Scotland Yard has you and your fellow detectives running Should auld acquaintance be forgot and games of auld lang syne. Henderson (Carmen) castle dice tower which he later gifted to me. play, I decided to narrow the eld by eliminating games Ticket to Ride is a set collection, route-building game. e designer, Alan bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. e someone instead of letting it hit the ground. addicting even though I lost big time all over London chasing down the elusive Mr. X (played After scoring a completed feature, you get your meeple back and can use it again in a later turn. And days of auld lang syne, my dear and games of auld lang syne. Goblin Quest Explaining Cthulhu 9. Nelson selected Mysterium that aren't currently in print. I wouldn't want to get you the rst several times I played. My Moon, somehow came up with the perfect formula balancing interesting game consists of ve rounds, and each round has two phases: You can shoot someone in an adjacent car or (if you're • by Jim C. Hines or by one player). Mr. X's job is to move from point-to- Each large expansion adds new tiles, new meeples and new rules. Some of the mini-expansions also add new game pieces We'll raise a cup of kindness, dear to games of auld lang syne. to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvartsman all excited about a game only to tell you that it's not husband remarked that he had owned game play with simple, streamlined rules. Phase 1: Schemin' - Prepare the train robbery by playing your Action cards (2 to running on top of the train) anyone in sight, and when 10. Richard chose Mage Wars Arena point around the map of London via taxi, bus or subway, and rules as well. Many of the promo mini-expansions just add a few new tiles, usually with some new twist to the rules. available right now. at would just be mean. and loved it as a kid, so I went looking for a 5 Issue 46 Here Be Books & Games News January 2017

5) on the common pile, with cards face up or face down you do, you give that player one of your six bullet cards; (Diane) 11. John took home Kingdom Builder Big Box All of these games of days-gone-by were rst published at copy, discovered it was back in print (end of 2014) and ducking, hiding, back-tracking even to confuse the detectives (the rest of the players) pursuing I've never played a game with all of the expansions, but I have played many games with multiple Each player starts the game with a set of four Tickets each showing two cities that need to be connected (should he depending on the type of the current round. Instead of that card gets shued in the opponent's deck, possibly • Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Jonathan) 12. Brent picked up Path nder ACG: Wrath of the Righ- least 10 years ago and all of them are currently in print. I'll immediately bought it for Tim for Christmas. Man was him. While the detectives are almost always informed of Mr. X's mode of transportation, his expansions. I even created several emed Carcassonne Combos decide to keep the Ticket). You have to keep at least two of them, but you can keep more. It's a good idea to try to keep playing a card, a player may draw three cards from her start with the oldest, provide a quick overview, then follow he surprised. It's hard to surprise my husband. exact location is only sighted a few times during the game. e pursuing detectives also move by (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193814/) that if you played all of Tickets whose routes can overlap or travel in the same general direction. Any Tickets completed by the end of the game giving her a dead card in hand on a future turn and Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup teous and expansions deck. up with more detail on a few of them in my next few posts. taxi, bus or subway, attempting to apprehend Mr. X by moving onto his current location. If the them you would've played almost all of the expansions - all that I had at the score you the points noted in the corner of the Tickets; any not completed score that number of negative points. Players forcing her to draw instead of playing something. If the group at: At any rate, we stocked it for awhile, until it went out of Marshal ends up in the same car as you, likely due to 13. Adam chose Witcher & Adventure Time Fluxx Some, I've already covered in great detail, in which case I'll detectives don't apprehend Mr. X within a set number of turns, Mr. X escapes to continue his time anyway. also each receive four colored Train cards. e colored Train cards correspond with the colored spaces on the board of the Phase 2: Stealin' - Check to make sure everything is www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club. print again. But I'm quite happy to say it's back! going o as planned and that you've avoided enemy other bandits luring him through the train, he'll be happy 14. Derek took home Abyss just link to that post. :-) On to the games... nefarious crime spree. Carcassonne got an updated look in 2015 with new artwork. I covered it in a routes you can claim. On your turn, you can do one of the following actions: to give you a bullet, too. So what's the game like? Can't Stop is a push-your-luck bullets. e action cards are carried out in the order they Game Gift Exchange Recap 15. Jacob picked 7 Wonders and Welcome Back to the Acquire (1964) dice game. Your goal is to be the rst player to claim three Scotland Yard has seen many iterations, reboots and re-themes in its long post on eGlassMeeple.com. I've also written about the six numbered mini- • Take 1 or 2 Train cards from the face-up selection of 5 cards, the top of the deck or a combination of both. If you were played, with a player's best-laid plans possibly going At the end of the game, whoever red the most bullets 55 gamers attended December’s Game Dungeon I was quite averse to even trying this columns, by reaching their tops rst with your cones - print history. Among the most beautiful and thematic re-themes are Fury expansions, my favorite e Phantom, the large Hills & Sheep expansion and the Carcassonne: South Seas spin-o on e take a face-up Locomotive (wild card that can be played as any color), that's the only card you can take that turn. awry due to mistakes and oversights! receives a $1,000 braggart bonus, and whoever bagged the Night and Game Gift Exchange. Many 16. Jason chose King of Tokyo and some neat arwork game. Somehow I had gotten the they look like the safety cones used on streets. Once a of Dracula (currently available, but out-of-print) and Letters from Whi- Glass Meeple. • Claim a Route by laying down cards of the color and quantity corresponding to the entire route between two richest haul wins! impression that Acquire was long, techapel (between printings right now). In 1991, Parker Brothers added it adjacent cities that you wish to claim and placing your colored trains to signify it. Grey routes can be claimed with Colt Express takes place in a 3D train in which the bandits people brought treats to share - Carissa’s 17. Diane selected a basket of games that included If column is claimed, it is considered Closed and you can no Now if I could just get those last few tiles before they make more!!! arduous and cutthroat. Not liking to its Clue line as Clue: e Great Museum Caper with a neat 3-D board. a set of any one color of Train cards. Locomotives are wild and work as any color. can move from one car to another, run on the roof, punch You can learn to play Colt Express at Here Be Books & pie was my favorite, and her towering Wishes Were Fishes, Ticket to Ride: e Card Game and longer play in that column. e columns are numbered 2 TransAmerica (2002) games with lots of direct conict, I New York Chase and seven other re-implementations are listed in the Board Game Geek • Take Tickets. You'll usually only do this when you've completed or almost completed your initial Tickets. Remem- the other bandits, shoot 'em, rob the passengers, or draw Games, January 21, 2017 from 1 to 5 p.m. We’ll even cocunut cake was delectable. Tilak, who some homemade meeple and robot ornaments to 12 which corresponds with the possible results you can the Marshal out of position. e train has as many cars as give you a copy of the Colt Express: Cursed Loot promo for received it in the game bundle he avoided it like the plague. Turns out get with a pair of dice. You advance your cones up a database. Scotland Yard is itself in print and available as I write this. TransAmerica is one of the rst modern board games I learned when we really got into ber any uncompleted Tickets at the end of the game score negative points. Don't announce it when you've com- the number of players, and each car is seeded with gems, trying the game out. (While supplies last.) Just drop by and chose in the Gift Exchange, shared it 18. Tina elected Hacienda and Salmon Run I was wrong on all counts. It's column with dice rolls. You each get your own set of Robo Rally (1994) board games. e concept is simple: connect the ve city cards in your hand by rail, one pleted a Ticket. Completed Tickets are only scored at the end of the game. To Take Tickets, draw four Tickets from city from each of the ve colored regions on the board, before any of the other players bags of loot or suitcases at the start of the game. Each we’ll teach you how to play! Admission is FREE. with the attendees in celebration of his friend Prabhu’s 19. William picked Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert neither long, arduous, nor cutthroat and there really colored cones to keep track of your progress in the the top of the Ticket deck. You must keep at least one, but you can keep more than one if you desire. I love Robo Rally. It is the most chaotic, crazy, fun, programmed-movement racing game connect theirs. player starts a round with six cards in hand, with each birthday. (since this was Aaron’s gift we rolled a die to see who got isn't any direct conict, just a vying for majority stock in columns - placed or moved at the end of your turn if I’ve ever played. Each player takes a cute little robot gure and places it on the starting line. When one player has two or fewer trains left, after claiming a route, all players, including that player get one more turn. Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting the seven hotels (original versions) or companies (later card showing one of these actions. We changed up the rules of the Gift Exchange this year: next pick) you're successful. en it's a race around the factory oor to make it to all of the ags rst. Of course, there TransAmerica is played over a series of rounds. Players start with their locomotive at the en the game is over. Players then each reveal their Tickets, one at a time, tracing the path between the cities depicted Current Read: Something Wicked is Way Comes by Ray versions). Actually, vying for majority stock isn't even the are all sorts of things on the factory oor to impede your progress like fast and slow Engine House at one end of the score track. As they score points each round, they on their Ticket - or not if they weren't successful - and scoring points accordingly. Finally, the player with the Longest • Everyone brought an unwrapped game or bundle of 20. Cameron chose Codenames: After Dark, Archer Love On your turn, take the three tracking cones (usually Bradbury (Jason’s pick) goal of the game, the goal is just to make the most money conveyor belts, gears that will turn you around if you end your turn there, laser beams to move closer and closer to the Barrier at the other end of the score track. You don't Continuous Route of trains, score a 10 point bonus. e player with the highest scores wins. games whose original MSRP was $50 or more. Letter, Scattergories and some decoder rings white), then roll the 4 dice. You have to use the dice you and become the wealthiest player. rolled in pairs. So, a roll of 1, 3, 4, 5, would provide the watch out for - and don't forget your fellow robots. ey shoot their own laser beams at the want want to go past the Barrier, so scoring points is a bad thing. Next Meeting: Friday, January 13 at • Aaron Cox was elected to go first due to his gener- 21. Callan selected the fancy Star Trek Panic basket And that's the game in a nutshell. I don't exactly know why I never get tired of playing Ticket to Ride. I do like to mix it Game play is quite simple and straightforward: 1) play a end of each turn - you don't want to be in front of that! Your fellow robots may also get in 6 pm at HBB&G. ousity in previous gift exchanges. following potential combinations: At the beginning of each round, players choose an intersection on the map of the up and play the dierent maps, though. 22. Christine & Christopher picked Firey: e Game and tile to the board, if that causes the creation of a new your way or push you around and set you o course. It's crazy United States - great for teaching kids geography - as their starting place, marking it e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club • The person whose gift he picked got to choose next 4: 1 + 3 7: 3 + 4 Firey: Shiny Dice company or a merger, resolve that; 2) buy up to 3 shares of fun!!! with their depot (colored wooden disc). On your turn, you can place one or two ere are several stand-alone Ticket to Ride games: the original USA, Europe, Nordic Countries, Marklin, and the latest - reads fantasy and science ction, plus and so on. 5: 1 + 4 8: 3 + 5 stock - if you can aord it!; 3) draw a new tile. e room rails: if you cross a river or mountain, you can only place one rail, otherwise you can place Rails & Sails. Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition is a must-see - a must-have in my book! I resisted for a few weeks urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. • Participants were allowed to augment their game 23. Tim chose Firey: e Game and chocolate 6: 1 + 5 9: 4 + 5 Designed by Richard Gareld and rst published in 1994 by Avalon Hill for strategy, however, is expansive. While there is random- two. When laying your rail, you must always be able to trace a path back to your depot. then broke down and bought a copy for myself. It sports a larger, more beautifully illustrated board, 5 unique train We meet about once a month, gifts with trinkets, goodies or even a towering 24. Maia selected Power Grid and Prolix with a few hard-to-nd expansions, just the base game of Robo Rally was later ness in which tiles you draw, everything else - including Arrange the dice into the model sets in matching colored tins, the USA 1910 Expansion, and bright shiny coconut cake to make them more desirable. reprinted by Wizards of the Coast. Recently it got a reboot, this time with Connecting your railway to a fellow player's increases your possible routes/rail placements. Eventually, everyone will be usually the Friday after Game Night 25. Leslie chose Tempus, Sync Up and Catch Phrase two pairs you want to use. new graphics throughout. It's lovely. You can use the new trains on the which stocks sky rocket - is dependent on the players' pre-painted robots and a few other changes. I can't wait to try it and plan to connected before the round is over. at 6 p.m. at the store. is new method of exchange was well received, so we’ll Sometimes you can only small maps: only the long 5- and 6-train routes hang over a bit. 26. Gary, Chris & Josh picked a game bundle that actions. write it up here afterwards. When a player connects all ve of his cities, he displays his cards to conrm it. en the other players show their cards Attending members submit a book do it again that way next year. use one pair. You can included Lord of the Rings Confrontation So what was and count the least number of rails required to connect the rest of their cities, moving their locomotive towards the ere are also lots of Map expansions for Ticket to Ride: Legendary title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - progress in up to three Carcassonne (2000) I did my best to record what games were given away and my reaction Barrier on the score track accordingly. e player who successfully connected all ve of his cities doesn't have to move his Asia & Team Asia (my favorite), India & Switzerland, Heart of usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When 27. Erin & Mike chose a bundle with Acquire, Red Shirts columns (signied by the three tracking cones) on one Carcassonne At the start of a round, a round card is revealed, showing in what order they were chosen. Here’s the run-down in after I nally is an old favorite of mine. It's a tile-laying game of short-term area control - sort of. locomotive at all. Africa, Nederlands, and United Kingdom & Pennsylvania. All of the we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by and more. turn, but your turn isn't over until you either decide to how many cards will be played; whether they'll be played case you’re interested or want to make notes for next year’s played it for I've become a Carcassonne Completist - determined to own every expansion and mini-expansion, Map expansions can be played with either the original USA Ticket to Ride each member - we start a new list. It was quite a night! Stop or don’t have a legal play. For example, if in previous Collect all of the cards, shue each color separately, deal a new set to each player, choose your starting locations and take face up or face down, individually, or in pairs; and what exchange. the rst time? though not every spin-o. It seems to be a losing battle. Recently I had all but 2 of the 40 or Ticket to Ride: Europe. Learn to Play Colt Express rolls that turn, you had already committed your tracking expansions and mini expansions (some are just 1 tile). en just as the last 2 arrived from turns playing rails again until a player connects her cities. Record the scores moving locomotives along the track. Rinse action will occur at the end of the round (e.g., all bandits You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection Mythos Tales I loved it and Every expansion and stand-alone game provides its own additional set 1. Aaron chose Games of Old Lang Syne: 7 Classic cones to columns 3, 7 and 10, you would only be able to and repeat until a train crosses the Barrier. e player closest to the Engine House wins! On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Paci c on top of the train move to the engine). You can pick up and come to the meeting. More details are available on asked to play again! Germany, I discovered they'd printed a couple new promo tiles. Grrrr! of rules, adding just a little more complexity, while building on the Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers loot, gems or suitcases only by playing a "steal" card when our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and 2. Adam took Mombasa Games That Never Grow Old use the 7 you rolled (3 + 4). Should you ever roll a dice TransAmerica is a fun and quick family game. I've taught it to kids as young as four - they don't have to be able to read, A new version of Acquire just released at the end of 2016. Carcassonne play is simple: draw a landscape tile and place it, then optionally place a meeple. same simple game play. I would rate the two maps in Rails & Sails and on board. After a few minutes, gun re and hurrying you're in a train car that holds one of these items — but our Meetup Group. 3. Michael chose Ticket to Ride combination that won't let you advance in one of the just be able to match the city names on their cards with those on the board. We used to teach and play it all the time, Should auld acquaintance be forgot I'm planning to acquire a copy shortly and will post my When you place a meeple: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania as the most complex of them all. footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits since everyone is planning to get these goods, you'll need three columns you're working in, you lose all progress then it went out of print. Now that it's available again - in a bigger box for some reason, though exactly the same game - Current Reading List: 4. Tilak selected the towering coconut cake with a bundle and never brought to mind thoughts on it after playing it a few times. e publisher • on a Road, he becomes a Robber and scores you 1 point per tile of the road when the road Summary have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and to move, punch and shoot to get others out of your way. made that turn. Remove the white cones from the board we can introduce it to more families! of games Should auld acquaintance be forgot made quite a few changes, so I'm intrigued to see how is nished. jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding You can punch someone only in the same car as you, and If you have copies you’d like to trade or sell, please and play passes to the next player. I hope I've demonstrated with this list of Games of Old Lang Syne, that games of days gone by can be just as exciting those work before commenting. Ticket to Ride (2004) the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it when you do, the other bandit drops one of the goods bring them in. 5. Carissa picked Forbidden Stars and games of auld lang syne. e push-your-luck element of Can't Stop makes play • in a City, he becomes a Knight scoring you 2 points per tile when the city is completed. and fun to play as the latest entry to the Cult of the New list. More so: you know them, you like them - love them even. Ticket to Ride is one of my favorite games of all time - in all its many forms! I having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel Ford? Will these bandits he's collected and is knocked into an adjacent car. • Legacy of Heorot or Lucifer’s Hammer or Footfall by 6. Scott & Gabriel selected Pandemic: Cthulhu It's so easy to focus solely on the latest releases when Can't Stop (1980) quick, lively and very addicting. It's just as fun with 2 • on a Cloister, he becomes a monk, scoring 9 points for you when the cloister is complete: surrounded by 8 tiles, 4 Playing them brings back fond memories of past plays and times spent with friends and loved ones. Plus, you don't have never tire of playing it, so it of course deserves a spot on this Games of Auld hinder one another more than the Marshal since only the richest one of them can Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle or e Door Into choosing games to review, that I thought I'd change players as with 3 or 4. sides and 4 diagonals. to spend time learning new rules: just sit down and play. Each player's character has a special power, such as start- 7. Kat & Daniel took home Space Alert & Gearworld I rst met Can't Stop on Board Game Lang Syne list. I really need to write about my favorite games more often. come out on top? Summer by Robert Heinlein or Sundiver by David things up a bit and reect on some of my favorite games Scotland Yard (1983) • lying flat on a field, he becomes a farmer. Farmers score only at the end of the game, yielding 3 points per com- ing the round with an extra card, playing your rst card Arena when my husband introduced Too many games, too little time. But I digress. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Pilgrimage: e Book of the People 8. Brent grabbed Mice & Mystics and a gogeous handmade of auld lang syne. I have so many old favorites that I still pleted city served (touched) by the farm. In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other face down, or pocketing a bag of loot when you punch Brin or by Zenna me to the game. It was immediately Scotland Yard has you and your fellow detectives running Should auld acquaintance be forgot and games of auld lang syne. Henderson (Carmen) castle dice tower which he later gifted to me. play, I decided to narrow the eld by eliminating games Ticket to Ride is a set collection, route-building game. e designer, Alan bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. e someone instead of letting it hit the ground. addicting even though I lost big time all over London chasing down the elusive Mr. X (played After scoring a completed feature, you get your meeple back and can use it again in a later turn. And days of auld lang syne, my dear and games of auld lang syne. 9. Nelson selected Mysterium that aren't currently in print. I wouldn't want to get you the rst several times I played. My Moon, somehow came up with the perfect formula balancing interesting game consists of ve rounds, and each round has two phases: You can shoot someone in an adjacent car or (if you're • Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu by one player). Mr. X's job is to move from point-to- Each large expansion adds new tiles, new meeples and new rules. Some of the mini-expansions also add new game pieces We'll raise a cup of kindness, dear to games of auld lang syne. to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvartsman all excited about a game only to tell you that it's not husband remarked that he had owned game play with simple, streamlined rules. Phase 1: Schemin' - Prepare the train robbery by playing your Action cards (2 to running on top of the train) anyone in sight, and when 10. Richard chose Mage Wars Arena point around the map of London via taxi, bus or subway, and rules as well. Many of the promo mini-expansions just add a few new tiles, usually with some new twist to the rules. available right now. at would just be mean. and loved it as a kid, so I went looking for a 6 Issue 46 Here Be Books & Games News January 2017

5) on the common pile, with cards face up or face down you do, you give that player one of your six bullet cards; (Diane) 11. John took home Kingdom Builder Big Box All of these games of days-gone-by were rst published at copy, discovered it was back in print (end of 2014) and ducking, hiding, back-tracking even to confuse the detectives (the rest of the players) pursuing I've never played a game with all of the expansions, but I have played many games with multiple Each player starts the game with a set of four Tickets each showing two cities that need to be connected (should he depending on the type of the current round. Instead of that card gets shued in the opponent's deck, possibly • Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Jonathan) 12. Brent picked up Path nder ACG: Wrath of the Righ- least 10 years ago and all of them are currently in print. I'll immediately bought it for Tim for Christmas. Man was him. While the detectives are almost always informed of Mr. X's mode of transportation, his expansions. I even created several emed Carcassonne Combos decide to keep the Ticket). You have to keep at least two of them, but you can keep more. It's a good idea to try to keep playing a card, a player may draw three cards from her start with the oldest, provide a quick overview, then follow he surprised. It's hard to surprise my husband. exact location is only sighted a few times during the game. e pursuing detectives also move by Tickets whose routes can overlap or travel in the same general direction. Any Tickets completed by the end of the game giving her a dead card in hand on a future turn and Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup teous and expansions (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193814/) that if you played all of deck. up with more detail on a few of them in my next few posts. taxi, bus or subway, attempting to apprehend Mr. X by moving onto his current location. If the score you the points noted in the corner of the Tickets; any not completed score that number of negative points. Players forcing her to draw instead of playing something. If the group at: At any rate, we stocked it for awhile, until it went out of them you would've played almost all of the expansions - all that I had at the Marshal ends up in the same car as you, likely due to 13. Adam chose Witcher & Adventure Time Fluxx Some, I've already covered in great detail, in which case I'll detectives don't apprehend Mr. X within a set number of turns, Mr. X escapes to continue his time anyway. also each receive four colored Train cards. e colored Train cards correspond with the colored spaces on the board of the Phase 2: Stealin' - Check to make sure everything is www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club. print again. But I'm quite happy to say it's back! going o as planned and that you've avoided enemy other bandits luring him through the train, he'll be happy 14. Derek took home Abyss just link to that post. :-) On to the games... nefarious crime spree. Carcassonne got an updated look in 2015 with new artwork. I covered it in a routes you can claim. On your turn, you can do one of the following actions: to give you a bullet, too. So what's the game like? Can't Stop is a push-your-luck bullets. e action cards are carried out in the order they Game Gift Exchange Recap 15. Jacob picked 7 Wonders and Welcome Back to the Acquire (1964) dice game. Your goal is to be the rst player to claim three Scotland Yard has seen many iterations, reboots and re-themes in its long post on eGlassMeeple.com. I've also written about the six numbered mini- • Take 1 or 2 Train cards from the face-up selection of 5 cards, the top of the deck or a combination of both. If you were played, with a player's best-laid plans possibly going At the end of the game, whoever red the most bullets 55 gamers attended December’s Game Dungeon I was quite averse to even trying this columns, by reaching their tops rst with your cones - print history. Among the most beautiful and thematic re-themes are Fury expansions, my favorite e Phantom, the large Hills & Sheep expansion and the Carcassonne: South Seas spin-o on e take a face-up Locomotive (wild card that can be played as any color), that's the only card you can take that turn. awry due to mistakes and oversights! receives a $1,000 braggart bonus, and whoever bagged the Night and Game Gift Exchange. Many 16. Jason chose King of Tokyo and some neat arwork game. Somehow I had gotten the they look like the safety cones used on streets. Once a of Dracula (currently available, but out-of-print) and Letters from Whi- Glass Meeple. • Claim a Route by laying down cards of the color and quantity corresponding to the entire route between two richest haul wins! impression that Acquire was long, techapel (between printings right now). In 1991, Parker Brothers added it adjacent cities that you wish to claim and placing your colored trains to signify it. Grey routes can be claimed with Colt Express takes place in a 3D train in which the bandits people brought treats to share - Carissa’s 17. Diane selected a basket of games that included If column is claimed, it is considered Closed and you can no Now if I could just get those last few tiles before they make more!!! arduous and cutthroat. Not liking to its Clue line as Clue: e Great Museum Caper with a neat 3-D board. a set of any one color of Train cards. Locomotives are wild and work as any color. can move from one car to another, run on the roof, punch You can learn to play Colt Express at Here Be Books & pie was my favorite, and her towering Wishes Were Fishes, Ticket to Ride: e Card Game and longer play in that column. e columns are numbered 2 TransAmerica (2002) games with lots of direct conict, I New York Chase and seven other re-implementations are listed in the Board Game Geek • Take Tickets. You'll usually only do this when you've completed or almost completed your initial Tickets. Remem- the other bandits, shoot 'em, rob the passengers, or draw Games, January 21, 2017 from 1 to 5 p.m. We’ll even cocunut cake was delectable. Tilak, who some homemade meeple and robot ornaments to 12 which corresponds with the possible results you can the Marshal out of position. e train has as many cars as give you a copy of the Colt Express: Cursed Loot promo for received it in the game bundle he avoided it like the plague. Turns out get with a pair of dice. You advance your cones up a database. Scotland Yard is itself in print and available as I write this. TransAmerica is one of the rst modern board games I learned when we really got into ber any uncompleted Tickets at the end of the game score negative points. Don't announce it when you've com- the number of players, and each car is seeded with gems, trying the game out. (While supplies last.) Just drop by and chose in the Gift Exchange, shared it 18. Tina elected Hacienda and Salmon Run I was wrong on all counts. It's column with dice rolls. You each get your own set of Robo Rally (1994) board games. e concept is simple: connect the ve city cards in your hand by rail, one pleted a Ticket. Completed Tickets are only scored at the end of the game. To Take Tickets, draw four Tickets from city from each of the ve colored regions on the board, before any of the other players bags of loot or suitcases at the start of the game. Each we’ll teach you how to play! Admission is FREE. with the attendees in celebration of his friend Prabhu’s 19. William picked Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert neither long, arduous, nor cutthroat and there really colored cones to keep track of your progress in the the top of the Ticket deck. You must keep at least one, but you can keep more than one if you desire. I love Robo Rally. It is the most chaotic, crazy, fun, programmed-movement racing game connect theirs. player starts a round with six cards in hand, with each birthday. (since this was Aaron’s gift we rolled a die to see who got isn't any direct conict, just a vying for majority stock in columns - placed or moved at the end of your turn if I’ve ever played. Each player takes a cute little robot gure and places it on the starting line. When one player has two or fewer trains left, after claiming a route, all players, including that player get one more turn. Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting the seven hotels (original versions) or companies (later card showing one of these actions. We changed up the rules of the Gift Exchange this year: next pick) you're successful. en it's a race around the factory oor to make it to all of the ags rst. Of course, there TransAmerica is played over a series of rounds. Players start with their locomotive at the en the game is over. Players then each reveal their Tickets, one at a time, tracing the path between the cities depicted Current Read: Something Wicked is Way Comes by Ray versions). Actually, vying for majority stock isn't even the are all sorts of things on the factory oor to impede your progress like fast and slow Engine House at one end of the score track. As they score points each round, they on their Ticket - or not if they weren't successful - and scoring points accordingly. Finally, the player with the Longest • Everyone brought an unwrapped game or bundle of 20. Cameron chose Codenames: After Dark, Archer Love On your turn, take the three tracking cones (usually Bradbury (Jason’s pick) goal of the game, the goal is just to make the most money conveyor belts, gears that will turn you around if you end your turn there, laser beams to move closer and closer to the Barrier at the other end of the score track. You don't Continuous Route of trains, score a 10 point bonus. e player with the highest scores wins. games whose original MSRP was $50 or more. Letter, Scattergories and some decoder rings white), then roll the 4 dice. You have to use the dice you and become the wealthiest player. rolled in pairs. So, a roll of 1, 3, 4, 5, would provide the watch out for - and don't forget your fellow robots. ey shoot their own laser beams at the want want to go past the Barrier, so scoring points is a bad thing. Next Meeting: Friday, January 13 at • Aaron Cox was elected to go first due to his gener- 21. Callan selected the fancy Star Trek Panic basket And that's the game in a nutshell. I don't exactly know why I never get tired of playing Ticket to Ride. I do like to mix it Game play is quite simple and straightforward: 1) play a end of each turn - you don't want to be in front of that! Your fellow robots may also get in 6 pm at HBB&G. ousity in previous gift exchanges. following potential combinations: At the beginning of each round, players choose an intersection on the map of the up and play the dierent maps, though. 22. Christine & Christopher picked Firey: e Game and tile to the board, if that causes the creation of a new your way or push you around and set you o course. It's crazy United States - great for teaching kids geography - as their starting place, marking it e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club • The person whose gift he picked got to choose next 4: 1 + 3 7: 3 + 4 Firey: Shiny Dice company or a merger, resolve that; 2) buy up to 3 shares of fun!!! with their depot (colored wooden disc). On your turn, you can place one or two ere are several stand-alone Ticket to Ride games: the original USA, Europe, Nordic Countries, Marklin, and the latest - reads fantasy and science ction, plus and so on. 5: 1 + 4 8: 3 + 5 stock - if you can aord it!; 3) draw a new tile. e room rails: if you cross a river or mountain, you can only place one rail, otherwise you can place Rails & Sails. Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition is a must-see - a must-have in my book! I resisted for a few weeks urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. • Participants were allowed to augment their game 23. Tim chose Firey: e Game and chocolate 6: 1 + 5 9: 4 + 5 Designed by Richard Gareld and rst published in 1994 by Avalon Hill for strategy, however, is expansive. While there is random- two. When laying your rail, you must always be able to trace a path back to your depot. then broke down and bought a copy for myself. It sports a larger, more beautifully illustrated board, 5 unique train We meet about once a month, gifts with trinkets, goodies or even a towering 24. Maia selected Power Grid and Prolix with a few hard-to-nd expansions, just the base game of Robo Rally was later ness in which tiles you draw, everything else - including Arrange the dice into the model sets in matching colored tins, the USA 1910 Expansion, and bright shiny coconut cake to make them more desirable. reprinted by Wizards of the Coast. Recently it got a reboot, this time with Connecting your railway to a fellow player's increases your possible routes/rail placements. Eventually, everyone will be usually the Friday after Game Night 25. Leslie chose Tempus, Sync Up and Catch Phrase two pairs you want to use. new graphics throughout. It's lovely. You can use the new trains on the which stocks sky rocket - is dependent on the players' pre-painted robots and a few other changes. I can't wait to try it and plan to connected before the round is over. at 6 p.m. at the store. is new method of exchange was well received, so we’ll Sometimes you can only small maps: only the long 5- and 6-train routes hang over a bit. 26. Gary, Chris & Josh picked a game bundle that actions. write it up here afterwards. When a player connects all ve of his cities, he displays his cards to conrm it. en the other players show their cards Attending members submit a book do it again that way next year. use one pair. You can included Lord of the Rings Confrontation So what was and count the least number of rails required to connect the rest of their cities, moving their locomotive towards the ere are also lots of Map expansions for Ticket to Ride: Legendary title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - progress in up to three Carcassonne (2000) I did my best to record what games were given away and my reaction Barrier on the score track accordingly. e player who successfully connected all ve of his cities doesn't have to move his Asia & Team Asia (my favorite), India & Switzerland, Heart of usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When 27. Erin & Mike chose a bundle with Acquire, Red Shirts columns (signied by the three tracking cones) on one Carcassonne At the start of a round, a round card is revealed, showing in what order they were chosen. Here’s the run-down in after I nally is an old favorite of mine. It's a tile-laying game of short-term area control - sort of. locomotive at all. Africa, Nederlands, and United Kingdom & Pennsylvania. All of the we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by and more. turn, but your turn isn't over until you either decide to how many cards will be played; whether they'll be played case you’re interested or want to make notes for next year’s played it for I've become a Carcassonne Completist - determined to own every expansion and mini-expansion, Map expansions can be played with either the original USA Ticket to Ride each member - we start a new list. It was quite a night! Stop or don’t have a legal play. For example, if in previous Collect all of the cards, shue each color separately, deal a new set to each player, choose your starting locations and take face up or face down, individually, or in pairs; and what exchange. the rst time? though not every spin-o. It seems to be a losing battle. Recently I had all but 2 of the 40 or Ticket to Ride: Europe. Learn to Play Colt Express rolls that turn, you had already committed your tracking expansions and mini expansions (some are just 1 tile). en just as the last 2 arrived from turns playing rails again until a player connects her cities. Record the scores moving locomotives along the track. Rinse action will occur at the end of the round (e.g., all bandits You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection Mythos Tales I loved it and Every expansion and stand-alone game provides its own additional set 1. Aaron chose Games of Old Lang Syne: 7 Classic cones to columns 3, 7 and 10, you would only be able to and repeat until a train crosses the Barrier. e player closest to the Engine House wins! On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Paci c on top of the train move to the engine). You can pick up and come to the meeting. More details are available on asked to play again! Germany, I discovered they'd printed a couple new promo tiles. Grrrr! of rules, adding just a little more complexity, while building on the Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers loot, gems or suitcases only by playing a "steal" card when our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and 2. Adam took Mombasa Games That Never Grow Old use the 7 you rolled (3 + 4). Should you ever roll a dice TransAmerica is a fun and quick family game. I've taught it to kids as young as four - they don't have to be able to read, A new version of Acquire just released at the end of 2016. Carcassonne play is simple: draw a landscape tile and place it, then optionally place a meeple. same simple game play. I would rate the two maps in Rails & Sails and on board. After a few minutes, gun re and hurrying you're in a train car that holds one of these items — but our Meetup Group. 3. Michael chose Ticket to Ride combination that won't let you advance in one of the just be able to match the city names on their cards with those on the board. We used to teach and play it all the time, Should auld acquaintance be forgot I'm planning to acquire a copy shortly and will post my When you place a meeple: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania as the most complex of them all. footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits since everyone is planning to get these goods, you'll need three columns you're working in, you lose all progress then it went out of print. Now that it's available again - in a bigger box for some reason, though exactly the same game - Current Reading List: 4. Tilak selected the towering coconut cake with a bundle and never brought to mind thoughts on it after playing it a few times. e publisher • on a Road, he becomes a Robber and scores you 1 point per tile of the road when the road Summary have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and to move, punch and shoot to get others out of your way. made that turn. Remove the white cones from the board we can introduce it to more families! of games Should auld acquaintance be forgot made quite a few changes, so I'm intrigued to see how is nished. jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding You can punch someone only in the same car as you, and If you have copies you’d like to trade or sell, please and play passes to the next player. I hope I've demonstrated with this list of Games of Old Lang Syne, that games of days gone by can be just as exciting those work before commenting. Ticket to Ride (2004) the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it when you do, the other bandit drops one of the goods bring them in. 5. Carissa picked Forbidden Stars and games of auld lang syne. e push-your-luck element of Can't Stop makes play • in a City, he becomes a Knight scoring you 2 points per tile when the city is completed. and fun to play as the latest entry to the Cult of the New list. More so: you know them, you like them - love them even. Ticket to Ride is one of my favorite games of all time - in all its many forms! I having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel Ford? Will these bandits he's collected and is knocked into an adjacent car. • Legacy of Heorot or Lucifer’s Hammer or Footfall by 6. Scott & Gabriel selected Pandemic: Cthulhu It's so easy to focus solely on the latest releases when Can't Stop (1980) quick, lively and very addicting. It's just as fun with 2 • on a Cloister, he becomes a monk, scoring 9 points for you when the cloister is complete: surrounded by 8 tiles, 4 Playing them brings back fond memories of past plays and times spent with friends and loved ones. Plus, you don't have never tire of playing it, so it of course deserves a spot on this Games of Auld hinder one another more than the Marshal since only the richest one of them can Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle or e Door Into choosing games to review, that I thought I'd change players as with 3 or 4. sides and 4 diagonals. to spend time learning new rules: just sit down and play. Each player's character has a special power, such as start- 7. Kat & Daniel took home Space Alert & Gearworld I rst met Can't Stop on Board Game Lang Syne list. I really need to write about my favorite games more often. come out on top? Summer by Robert Heinlein or Sundiver by David things up a bit and reect on some of my favorite games Scotland Yard (1983) • lying flat on a field, he becomes a farmer. Farmers score only at the end of the game, yielding 3 points per com- ing the round with an extra card, playing your rst card Arena when my husband introduced Too many games, too little time. But I digress. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Pilgrimage: e Book of the People 8. Brent grabbed Mice & Mystics and a gogeous handmade of auld lang syne. I have so many old favorites that I still pleted city served (touched) by the farm. In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other face down, or pocketing a bag of loot when you punch Brin or by Zenna me to the game. It was immediately Scotland Yard has you and your fellow detectives running Should auld acquaintance be forgot and games of auld lang syne. The Glass Meeple Henderson (Carmen) castle dice tower which he later gifted to me. play, I decided to narrow the eld by eliminating games Ticket to Ride is a set collection, route-building game. e designer, Alan bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. e someone instead of letting it hit the ground. addicting even though I lost big time all over London chasing down the elusive Mr. X (played After scoring a completed feature, you get your meeple back and can use it again in a later turn. And days of auld lang syne, my dear and games of auld lang syne. Game Reviews by Tina 9. Nelson selected Mysterium that aren't currently in print. I wouldn't want to get you the rst several times I played. My Moon, somehow came up with the perfect formula balancing interesting game consists of ve rounds, and each round has two phases: You can shoot someone in an adjacent car or (if you're • Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu by one player). Mr. X's job is to move from point-to- Each large expansion adds new tiles, new meeples and new rules. Some of the mini-expansions also add new game pieces We'll raise a cup of kindness, dear to games of auld lang syne. www.theglassmeeple.com to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvartsman all excited about a game only to tell you that it's not husband remarked that he had owned game play with simple, streamlined rules. Phase 1: Schemin' - Prepare the train robbery by playing your Action cards (2 to running on top of the train) anyone in sight, and when 10. Richard chose Mage Wars Arena point around the map of London via taxi, bus or subway, and rules as well. Many of the promo mini-expansions just add a few new tiles, usually with some new twist to the rules. available right now. at would just be mean. and loved it as a kid, so I went looking for a 7 Issue 46 Here Be Books & Games News January 2017

5) on the common pile, with cards face up or face down you do, you give that player one of your six bullet cards; (Diane) 11. John took home Kingdom Builder Big Box All of these games of days-gone-by were rst published at copy, discovered it was back in print (end of 2014) and ducking, hiding, back-tracking even to confuse the detectives (the rest of the players) pursuing I've never played a game with all of the expansions, but I have played many games with multiple Each player starts the game with a set of four Tickets each showing two cities that need to be connected (should he Game Library Additions New Arrivals! depending on the type of the current round. Instead of that card gets shued in the opponent's deck, possibly • Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Jonathan) 12. Brent picked up Path nder ACG: Wrath of the Righ- least 10 years ago and all of them are currently in print. I'll immediately bought it for Tim for Christmas. Man was him. While the detectives are almost always informed of Mr. X's mode of transportation, his expansions. I even created several emed Carcassonne Combos decide to keep the Ticket). You have to keep at least two of them, but you can keep more. It's a good idea to try to keep playing a card, a player may draw three cards from her start with the oldest, provide a quick overview, then follow he surprised. It's hard to surprise my husband. exact location is only sighted a few times during the game. e pursuing detectives also move by Tickets whose routes can overlap or travel in the same general direction. Any Tickets completed by the end of the game giving her a dead card in hand on a future turn and Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup teous and expansions (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193814/) that if you played all of ... and Then We Held Hands Castle Panic: Engines of War Red Dragon Inn: Battle for deck. forcing her to draw instead of playing something. If the up with more detail on a few of them in my next few posts. taxi, bus or subway, attempting to apprehend Mr. X by moving onto his current location. If the them you would've played almost all of the expansions - all that I had at the score you the points noted in the corner of the Tickets; any not completed score that number of negative points. Players group at: At any rate, we stocked it for awhile, until it went out of Betrayal at House on the Hill: Chimera Greyport Marshal ends up in the same car as you, likely due to 13. Adam chose Witcher & Adventure Time Fluxx Some, I've already covered in great detail, in which case I'll detectives don't apprehend Mr. X within a set number of turns, Mr. X escapes to continue his time anyway. also each receive four colored Train cards. e colored Train cards correspond with the colored spaces on the board of the Phase 2: Stealin' - Check to make sure everything is www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club. print again. But I'm quite happy to say it's back! Widow’s Walk Grand Austria Hotel Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on going o as planned and that you've avoided enemy other bandits luring him through the train, he'll be happy 14. Derek took home Abyss just link to that post. :-) On to the games... nefarious crime spree. Carcassonne got an updated look in 2015 with new artwork. I covered it in a routes you can claim. On your turn, you can do one of the following actions: the Cursed Island 4th Edition So what's the game like? Can't Stop is a push-your-luck Chimera Istanbul: Letters & Seals Exp bullets. e action cards are carried out in the order they to give you a bullet, too. Game Gift Exchange Recap 15. Jacob picked 7 Wonders and Welcome Back to the Acquire (1964) Scotland Yard has seen many iterations, reboots and re-themes in its long post on eGlassMeeple.com. I've also written about the six numbered mini- • Take 1 or 2 Train cards from the face-up selection of 5 cards, the top of the deck or a combination of both. If you dice game. Your goal is to be the rst player to claim three Kanagawa Scythe were played, with a player's best-laid plans possibly going At the end of the game, whoever red the most bullets Dungeon print history. Among the most beautiful and thematic re-themes are Fury expansions, my favorite e Phantom, the large Hills & Sheep expansion and the Carcassonne: South Seas spin-o on e take a face-up Locomotive (wild card that can be played as any color), that's the only card you can take that turn. Codenames: Pictures 55 gamers attended December’s Game I was quite averse to even trying this columns, by reaching their tops rst with your cones - Scythe: Invaders from Afar awry due to mistakes and oversights! receives a $1,000 braggart bonus, and whoever bagged the of Dracula (currently available, but out-of-print) and Letters from Whi- Glass Meeple. • Claim a Route by laying down cards of the color and quantity corresponding to the entire route between two Grand Austria Hotel La Granja: e Dice Game - No Night and Game Gift Exchange. Many 16. Jason chose King of Tokyo and some neat arwork game. Somehow I had gotten the they look like the safety cones used on streets. Once a Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails richest haul wins! impression that Acquire was long, techapel (between printings right now). In 1991, Parker Brothers added it adjacent cities that you wish to claim and placing your colored trains to signify it. Grey routes can be claimed with Siesta! Colt Express takes place in a 3D train in which the bandits people brought treats to share - Carissa’s 17. Diane selected a basket of games that included If column is claimed, it is considered Closed and you can no Now if I could just get those last few tiles before they make more!!! e Grizzled arduous and cutthroat. Not liking to its Clue line as Clue: e Great Museum Caper with a neat 3-D board. a set of any one color of Train cards. Locomotives are wild and work as any color. My Village Time Stories expansions can move from one car to another, run on the roof, punch You can learn to play Colt Express at Here Be Books & pie was my favorite, and her towering Wishes Were Fishes, Ticket to Ride: e Card Game and longer play in that column. e columns are numbered 2 TransAmerica (2002) Kanagawa the other bandits, shoot 'em, rob the passengers, or draw Games, January 21, 2017 from 1 to 5 p.m. We’ll even cocunut cake was delectable. Tilak, who games with lots of direct conict, I to 12 which corresponds with the possible results you can New York Chase and seven other re-implementations are listed in the Board Game Geek • Take Tickets. You'll usually only do this when you've completed or almost completed your initial Tickets. Remem- The Oracle of Delphi Time’s Up Title Recall Expansion some homemade meeple and robot ornaments database. Scotland Yard is itself in print and available as I write this. TransAmerica is one of the rst modern board games I learned when we really got into Karuba the Marshal out of position. e train has as many cars as give you a copy of the Colt Express: Cursed Loot promo for received it in the game bundle he avoided it like the plague. Turns out get with a pair of dice. You advance your cones up a ber any uncompleted Tickets at the end of the game score negative points. Don't announce it when you've com- Orleans Invasion Packs 1, 2, 3 & 4 18. Tina elected Hacienda and Salmon Run I was wrong on all counts. It's board games. e concept is simple: connect the ve city cards in your hand by rail, one pleted a Ticket. Completed Tickets are only scored at the end of the game. To Take Tickets, draw four Tickets from La Granja the number of players, and each car is seeded with gems, trying the game out. (While supplies last.) Just drop by and chose in the Gift Exchange, shared it column with dice rolls. You each get your own set of Robo Rally (1994) Pandemic: Iberia Tokaido: Deluxe Edition neither long, arduous, nor cutthroat and there really city from each of the ve colored regions on the board, before any of the other players the top of the Ticket deck. You must keep at least one, but you can keep more than one if you desire. bags of loot or suitcases at the start of the game. Each we’ll teach you how to play! Admission is FREE. with the attendees in celebration of his friend Prabhu’s 19. William picked Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert colored cones to keep track of your progress in the I love Robo Rally. It is the most chaotic, crazy, fun, programmed-movement racing game The Oracle of Delphi Games in Stock: 800+ player starts a round with six cards in hand, with each birthday. isn't any direct conict, just a vying for majority stock in columns - placed or moved at the end of your turn if connect theirs. Qwirkle Trio Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Meeting (since this was Aaron’s gift we rolled a die to see who got I’ve ever played. Each player takes a cute little robot gure and places it on the starting line. When one player has two or fewer trains left, after claiming a route, all players, including that player get one more turn. Pandemic: Iberia card showing one of these actions. next pick) the seven hotels (original versions) or companies (later you're successful. en it's a race around the factory oor to make it to all of the ags rst. Of course, there TransAmerica is played over a series of rounds. Players start with their locomotive at the en the game is over. Players then each reveal their Tickets, one at a time, tracing the path between the cities depicted We changed up the rules of the Gift Exchange this year: Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails Current Read: Something Wicked is Way Comes by Ray versions). Actually, vying for majority stock isn't even the are all sorts of things on the factory oor to impede your progress like fast and slow Engine House at one end of the score track. As they score points each round, they on their Ticket - or not if they weren't successful - and scoring points accordingly. Finally, the player with the Longest • Everyone brought an unwrapped game or bundle of 20. Cameron chose Codenames: After Dark, Archer Love On your turn, take the three tracking cones (usually Back in Stock! Bradbury (Jason’s pick) goal of the game, the goal is just to make the most money white), then roll the 4 dice. You have to use the dice you conveyor belts, gears that will turn you around if you end your turn there, laser beams to move closer and closer to the Barrier at the other end of the score track. You don't Continuous Route of trains, score a 10 point bonus. e player with the highest scores wins. T.I.M.E. Stories games whose original MSRP was $50 or more. Letter, Scattergories and some decoder rings Can’t Stop Pit Deluxe and become the wealthiest player. rolled in pairs. So, a roll of 1, 3, 4, 5, would provide the watch out for - and don't forget your fellow robots. ey shoot their own laser beams at the want want to go past the Barrier, so scoring points is a bad thing. Next Meeting: Friday, January 13 at • Aaron Cox was elected to go first due to his gener- 21. Callan selected the fancy Star Trek Panic basket And that's the game in a nutshell. I don't exactly know why I never get tired of playing Ticket to Ride. I do like to mix it Welcome to the Dungeon Game play is quite simple and straightforward: 1) play a end of each turn - you don't want to be in front of that! Your fellow robots may also get in Colt Express Qwixx 6 pm at HBB&G. ousity in previous gift exchanges. following potential combinations: At the beginning of each round, players choose an intersection on the map of the up and play the dierent maps, though. Welcome Back to the Dungeon 22. Christine & Christopher picked Firey: e Game and tile to the board, if that causes the creation of a new your way or push you around and set you o course. It's crazy United States - great for teaching kids geography - as their starting place, marking it Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle Space Alert e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club • The person whose gift he picked got to choose next 4: 1 + 3 7: 3 + 4 Firey: Shiny Dice company or a merger, resolve that; 2) buy up to 3 shares of fun!!! with their depot (colored wooden disc). On your turn, you can place one or two ere are several stand-alone Ticket to Ride games: the original USA, Europe, Nordic Countries, Marklin, and the latest - reads fantasy and science ction, plus and so on. 5: 1 + 4 8: 3 + 5 Lanterns: The Harvest Festival Star Trek Panic stock - if you can aord it!; 3) draw a new tile. e room rails: if you cross a river or mountain, you can only place one rail, otherwise you can place Rails & Sails. Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition is a must-see - a must-have in my book! I resisted for a few weeks Titles in Library: 529 urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. • Participants were allowed to augment their game 23. Tim chose Firey: e Game and chocolate 6: 1 + 5 9: 4 + 5 Designed by Richard Gareld and rst published in 1994 by Avalon Hill Legendary: Captain America Takenoko: Chibis Exp for strategy, however, is expansive. While there is random- two. When laying your rail, you must always be able to trace a path back to your depot. then broke down and bought a copy for myself. It sports a larger, more beautifully illustrated board, 5 unique train We meet about once a month, gifts with trinkets, goodies or even a towering 24. Maia selected Power Grid and Prolix with a few hard-to-nd expansions, just the base game of Robo Rally was later ness in which tiles you draw, everything else - including Arrange the dice into the model sets in matching colored tins, the USA 1910 Expansion, and bright shiny Mission: Red Planet Ticket to Ride: Alivin & Dexter coconut cake to make them more desirable. reprinted by Wizards of the Coast. Recently it got a reboot, this time with Connecting your railway to a fellow player's increases your possible routes/rail placements. Eventually, everyone will be usually the Friday after Game Night 25. Leslie chose Tempus, Sync Up and Catch Phrase two pairs you want to use. new graphics throughout. It's lovely. You can use the new trains on the We’ll teach you how to play! Munchkin: Princesses Tokaido which stocks sky rocket - is dependent on the players' pre-painted robots and a few other changes. I can't wait to try it and plan to connected before the round is over. at 6 p.m. at the store. is new method of exchange was well received, so we’ll Sometimes you can only small maps: only the long 5- and 6-train routes hang over a bit. 26. Gary, Chris & Josh picked a game bundle that actions. write it up here afterwards. When a player connects all ve of his cities, he displays his cards to conrm it. en the other players show their cards Munchkin: Puppies Ultimate Werewolf: One Night Attending members submit a book do it again that way next year. use one pair. You can included Lord of the Rings Confrontation So what was and count the least number of rails required to connect the rest of their cities, moving their locomotive towards the ere are also lots of Map expansions for Ticket to Ride: Legendary title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - progress in up to three Carcassonne (2000) I did my best to record what games were given away and my reaction Barrier on the score track accordingly. e player who successfully connected all ve of his cities doesn't have to move his Asia & Team Asia (my favorite), India & Switzerland, Heart of usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When 27. Erin & Mike chose a bundle with Acquire, Red Shirts columns (signied by the three tracking cones) on one Carcassonne Used Games For Sale At the start of a round, a round card is revealed, showing in what order they were chosen. Here’s the run-down in after I nally is an old favorite of mine. It's a tile-laying game of short-term area control - sort of. locomotive at all. Africa, Nederlands, and United Kingdom & Pennsylvania. All of the we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by and more. turn, but your turn isn't over until you either decide to how many cards will be played; whether they'll be played case you’re interested or want to make notes for next year’s played it for I've become a Carcassonne Completist - determined to own every expansion and mini-expansion, Map expansions can be played with either the original USA Ticket to Ride Abyss Lord of the Rings: Card Game Star Trek Expeditions each member - we start a new list. It was quite a night! Stop or don’t have a legal play. For example, if in previous Collect all of the cards, shue each color separately, deal a new set to each player, choose your starting locations and take face up or face down, individually, or in pairs; and what exchange. the rst time? though not every spin-o. It seems to be a losing battle. Recently I had all but 2 of the 40 or Ticket to Ride: Europe. Challenge Yahtzee Metro Star Trek: Five Year Mission Learn to Play Colt Express action will occur at the end of the round (e.g., all bandits rolls that turn, you had already committed your tracking expansions and mini expansions (some are just 1 tile). en just as the last 2 arrived from turns playing rails again until a player connects her cities. Record the scores moving locomotives along the track. Rinse You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection 1. Aaron chose Mythos Tales Games of Old Lang Syne: 7 Classic I loved it and Every expansion and stand-alone game provides its own additional set Clue: e Great Museum Caper Mr. Jack Stratego on top of the train move to the engine). You can pick up cones to columns 3, 7 and 10, you would only be able to Germany, I discovered they'd printed a couple new promo tiles. Grrrr! and repeat until a train crosses the Barrier. e player closest to the Engine House wins! On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Paci c and come to the meeting. More details are available on asked to play again! of rules, adding just a little more complexity, while building on the Cthulhu Fluxx Mr. Jack in New York Tikal II: Lost Temple Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers loot, gems or suitcases only by playing a "steal" card when our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and 2. Adam took Mombasa Games That Never Grow Old use the 7 you rolled (3 + 4). Should you ever roll a dice TransAmerica is a fun and quick family game. I've taught it to kids as young as four - they don't have to be able to read, A new version of Acquire just released at the end of 2016. Carcassonne play is simple: draw a landscape tile and place it, then optionally place a meeple. same simple game play. I would rate the two maps in Rails & Sails and DC Comics: Forever Evil Nations Ubongo Trigo on board. After a few minutes, gun re and hurrying you're in a train car that holds one of these items — but our Meetup Group. 3. Michael chose Ticket to Ride combination that won't let you advance in one of the just be able to match the city names on their cards with those on the board. We used to teach and play it all the time, Should auld acquaintance be forgot I'm planning to acquire a copy shortly and will post my When you place a meeple: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania as the most complex of them all. Walking Dead: Don’t Look Back footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits since everyone is planning to get these goods, you'll need three columns you're working in, you lose all progress then it went out of print. Now that it's available again - in a bigger box for some reason, though exactly the same game - Haggis Patrician Current Reading List: 4. Tilak selected the towering coconut cake with a bundle and never brought to mind thoughts on it after playing it a few times. e publisher • on a Road, he becomes a Robber and scores you 1 point per tile of the road when the road Summary have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and to move, punch and shoot to get others out of your way. made that turn. Remove the white cones from the board we can introduce it to more families! Inltration Simply Cosmic Würfelwurm of games Should auld acquaintance be forgot made quite a few changes, so I'm intrigued to see how is nished. jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding You can punch someone only in the same car as you, and If you have copies you’d like to trade or sell, please and play passes to the next player. I hope I've demonstrated with this list of Games of Old Lang Syne, that games of days gone by can be just as exciting Innovation Snorta! Xenoshyft bring them in. and games of auld lang syne. those work before commenting. Ticket to Ride (2004) the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it when you do, the other bandit drops one of the goods 5. Carissa picked Forbidden Stars e push-your-luck element of Can't Stop makes play • in a City, he becomes a Knight scoring you 2 points per tile when the city is completed. and fun to play as the latest entry to the Cult of the New list. More so: you know them, you like them - love them even. Isis & Osiris Space Pirates Zooloretto Ticket to Ride is one of my favorite games of all time - in all its many forms! I having been placed under the supervision of Marshal Samuel Ford? Will these bandits he's collected and is knocked into an adjacent car. • Legacy of Heorot or Lucifer’s Hammer or Footfall by 6. Scott & Gabriel selected Pandemic: Cthulhu It's so easy to focus solely on the latest releases when Can't Stop (1980) quick, lively and very addicting. It's just as fun with 2 • on a Cloister, he becomes a monk, scoring 9 points for you when the cloister is complete: surrounded by 8 tiles, 4 Playing them brings back fond memories of past plays and times spent with friends and loved ones. Plus, you don't have never tire of playing it, so it of course deserves a spot on this Games of Auld hinder one another more than the Marshal since only the richest one of them can Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle or e Door Into choosing games to review, that I thought I'd change players as with 3 or 4. sides and 4 diagonals. to spend time learning new rules: just sit down and play. Each player's character has a special power, such as start- 7. Kat & Daniel took home Space Alert & Gearworld I rst met Can't Stop on Board Game Lang Syne list. I really need to write about my favorite games more often. Here Be Books & Games come out on top? Summer by Robert Heinlein or Sundiver by David things up a bit and reect on some of my favorite games Scotland Yard (1983) • lying flat on a field, he becomes a farmer. Farmers score only at the end of the game, yielding 3 points per com- ing the round with an extra card, playing your rst card Arena when my husband introduced Too many games, too little time. But I digress. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Pilgrimage: e Book of the People 8. Brent grabbed Mice & Mystics and a gogeous handmade of auld lang syne. I have so many old favorites that I still pleted city served (touched) by the farm. 4650 Ladson Road, Suite I, Summerville, SC 29485 In Colt Express, you play a bandit robbing a train at the same time as other face down, or pocketing a bag of loot when you punch Brin or by Zenna me to the game. It was immediately Scotland Yard has you and your fellow detectives running Should auld acquaintance be forgot and games of auld lang syne. Henderson (Carmen) castle dice tower which he later gifted to me. play, I decided to narrow the eld by eliminating games Ticket to Ride is a set collection, route-building game. e designer, Alan Phone: (843) 695-1498 • Hours: Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm bandits, and your goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. e someone instead of letting it hit the ground. addicting even though I lost big time all over London chasing down the elusive Mr. X (played After scoring a completed feature, you get your meeple back and can use it again in a later turn. And days of auld lang syne, my dear and games of auld lang syne. 9. Nelson selected Mysterium that aren't currently in print. I wouldn't want to get you the rst several times I played. My Moon, somehow came up with the perfect formula balancing interesting Web: HereBeBooksAndGames.com • Online Store: HereBeBooksAndGames.com/onlinestore game consists of ve rounds, and each round has two phases: You can shoot someone in an adjacent car or (if you're • Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu by one player). Mr. X's job is to move from point-to- Each large expansion adds new tiles, new meeples and new rules. Some of the mini-expansions also add new game pieces We'll raise a cup of kindness, dear to games of auld lang syne. to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvartsman all excited about a game only to tell you that it's not husband remarked that he had owned game play with simple, streamlined rules. Facebook: www.facebook.com/herebebooksandgames Phase 1: Schemin' - Prepare the train robbery by playing your Action cards (2 to running on top of the train) anyone in sight, and when 10. Richard chose Mage Wars Arena point around the map of London via taxi, bus or subway, and rules as well. Many of the promo mini-expansions just add a few new tiles, usually with some new twist to the rules. available right now. at would just be mean. and loved it as a kid, so I went looking for a