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Here Be Books & Games play a nal game with both the Leaders and Cities expan- • Foam Uzis for use in regular play. Staring down the It Takes Two: 7 Games confusing until you learn how to play. Of course Tim and up to choose in which column(s) you’ll advance your Aton - One of my favorite for the round, then score each temple. e player with the majority of but you have no idea what he's holding. While you can take and use his discards, he can take and use yours, too! It's a Tim loves this two-player game, but there’s too much conict for my taste. It’s too sions or perhaps the Babel expansion instead. Boards will I would be happy to teach you. Full run-down of game barrel of that, there are going to be a lot less punks feeling We Love to Play as a working cones. You can only advance up to three cones two-player games stones in each temple, scores for that temple. For Temple 1, the player game of give and take and loads of fun. Now for a history lesson. bad, the artwork looks really cool! be assigned randomly in each game. lucky that day! You’ll have to participate in the event to play later in this newsletter. each turn, pressing your luck by rolling again. If you roll with the most stones in Temple 1 scores points equal to the dierence Couple Designed by Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities was rst published in 1999 and quickly won several awards: e base game of Star Realms supports 2 players ages 12 and up. With two 7 Wonders Champion have a chance to win one of these puppies! 4. Ticket to Ride. numbers that don’t match any of the columns your Aton is an abstract strategy game with an in the players’ stone count. For example: if blue has 5 stones and red 1, e Champion will also receive a While there 1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner sets, 4 can play. Non-collectible expansion packs – they look like booster News emblem to embellish his or her Game Night name badge Admission: $10 per person. e rst 30 gamers who Tim and I have been are two Ticket to Ride maps working cones are in, you lose all progress made that turn. Egyptian theme. I’m not blue scores 4 points. For Temple 2, the player with the majority of packs, but each pack contains exactly the same cards – are also available to 1999 Meeples' Choice Award playing games together I told you it was press your luck! It’s also addicting. usually a fan of abstract stones scores a straight 5 points - which would be red in the picture and have their picture posted on our Wall of Champions register by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 will receive a expressly made for two to three 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players spice up the game. Play time is about 20 minutes. on Facebook. since we met. It’s how players (Switzerland and Nordic strategy games, but for (right). e player with the majority in Temple 3, scores 1 point for Issue 35 February 2016 Giant Cthulhu. While I could certainly make this list even longer, space is e spin-o of Star Realms that supports up to 4 players, we met, actually in Countries), we’ve found the this one, I make an each of his stones there. In this case, neither player scores any points for In 2008, two board games were spun o Lost Cities: Lost Cities: Admission is $10 per person. e rst 20 gamers who Sign up now in-store at Here Be Books & Games or on limited, so seven will have to do - in the newsletter Cthulhu Realms, has you trying to drive your opponents insane. at is, February 1987. We’ve boards that support up to four exception. With four Temple 3. e player with the majority in Temple 4, scores 3 points for e Board Game, published by Rio Grande Games here in the register by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 will receive the our web site. anyway. In the store, we’ve set up a special display of your goal is to reduce your opponents’ sanity to insanity or have the most remaining sanity yourself Save the Date! been together ever since: or ve players to provide closer ways to win, you have to each stone she has on a blue square. In the picture, blue would score 6 U.S. (recently republished by ames & Kosmos) and Keltis, new Palace promo card with their registration. two-player games to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And, of when the deck runs out. Typical Cthulhu mythos madness. Cthulhu Realms supports 2 to 4 players Saturday, February 6, 6 pm living proof that the couple who competitions for two, particu- watch your opponent with a points. Finally, the player with the majority of stones on grey spaces, published by Kosmos in Germany. Lost Cities: e Board Game Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club course, we’d be happy to teach you how to play them! ages 14 and up with a playtime of 25 to 45 minutes. Game Night Sign up now at Here Be Books & Games or online via plays together stays together. larly the original with the USA 1910 hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your own strategy. scores 8 points - blue here. If neither player has achieved 40 points, both players remove one of their stones from each of features the same archaeological look, theme and feel as Lost our web site. Current read: Innity Welcomes e rulebook can be a bit confusing until you learn how the temples, collect their stones from the Kingdom of the Dead and continue playing. Cities, supports 2 to 4 players and adds a few new twists to the Saturday, February 13, 1-5:30pm With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put expansion, the 10 Year Anniversary Edition and Europe. Learn to Play Ticket to Ride U.K. Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor Jaipur - Send Your to play. Of course Tim and I would be happy to teach game with card play still always in ascending order. Niya - Beautiful Fun together a list of our favorite games to play together - just 5. Pandemic. I just love a good cooperative Aton supports two players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. and Pennsylvania (Jason) Camels to Trade you. Niya Connect 4 us two. Not all of these games are made for just two, game! What could be better than working Keltis, however, has a bright is a type of game – with a twist – and lovely Japanese artwork. You begin by Saturday, February 20, 6 pm Read the book and we'll meet though many are, but all of them provide excellent game together as a team saving the world from a In Jaipur, a ere are four ways to win in Aton: 1) Fill a temple Lost Cities - An Expedition for Two green, Irish Celtic theme shuing the 16 beautiful tiles and arranging them in a 4×4 square. Each tile shows one of 7 Wonders Tournament & Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at completely with your stones, 2) Place your stones on all of along with its new twists, four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols play for two players. four-virus Pandemic? Saving the world from set-collection card Lost Cities is the rst Euro card game my husband and I ever owned. Tim picked it up Game Night HBB&G to discuss it. the green spaces on the board, 3) Fill all of the yellow plus the added ability to play cards in either ascending or descending order - you (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku – the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes I consider a game excellent for two when the contest is four viruses - one a virulent strain - and a game of trading and at a thrift store in San Diego and put it in our game cabinet, where I'm ashamed to Friday, February 26, 6 p.m. We’ve started a new list. (Note: fth mutated virus in Pandemic: On the selling goods, your spaces with your stones, or 4) score 40 points. e game choose for each expedition. ere are a few other minor dierences, too. write wishes). To begin the game, the start player removes one of the tiles along the edge Sci Fi/Fantasy Book Club always close and engaging, when you have to be say it remained until after we moved to South Carolina. It wasn't until we played it at and places one of her tokens there. e other player does likewise, but may only choose a you have to be attending meet- Brink! Or better yet, playing it campaign- camels are an essential tool ends immediately when any one of the winning condi- Keltis then spun o an expansion board with mind-boggling twists and turns - constantly aware of what your opponent is up to and another gamer's house that we realized we had a treasure - undiscovered in our game tile that depicts either the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol as on the tile the start Saturday, March 5, 6 pm ings for your book selection to be style with an ongoing storyline, like charac- of the trade. Here’s a quick run- tions is met.