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📷 #macromonday 📷 Do you know where this lo

📷 #macromonday 📷

Do you know where this lonesome traveller is usually found? He's not that smart to begin with, but he sometimes gets a bit more survivor savvy 😉

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Wonder what my #macromonday buddies @unfringedthings or @kosmosgamesuk have in store for us this week! 😃 📷

#macromonday #macrophotography #bgg #bggcommunity #boardgamefriends #boardgames #friday #riograndegames

⚙ #mechanismsmonday ⚙ and today @brettspielgir

⚙ #mechanismsmonday ⚙ and today @brettspielgiraffe has chosen pattern recognition!

I ❤ games that involve recognising, duplicating, continuing, and creating patterns.

Here are just a few of my favourites:

🌟 Almadi by @funnyfoxgames @hachetteboardgamesuk
🌟 Patchwork (all of them but this is Christmas!) by @lookout_games
🌟 Azul Summer Pavillion by @next_move_games @asmodeeuk
🌟 Calico by @alderaceg @flatoutgames
🌟 iMagician by @blam_edition @hachetteboardgamesuk
🌟 The Whatnot Cabinet by #pencilfirstgames

The puzzliness and cornucopia of colours never fails to hit my gaming sweet spot 👌

Next week is area control - why not join us by sharing a picture and using the hashtag #mechanismsmonday as started by @jim.gamer

#bgg #bggcommunity #boardgamefriends #boardgamefamily #boardgames #iloveboardgames #blamgames #alderac #flatoutcolab #asmodee #nextmove #lookoutgames #hachetteboardgamesuk #pencilfirstgames

As the supermarkets are now stocking Easter eggs 🥚🐣 🐰 along side Christmas clearance items, I couldn't help a little bit of #welcometo Springtime expansion 🏠🏡 🏠

An expansion to #welcometoyourperfecthome by @turpin.benoit @bluecockergames , this colourful board awards bonus points for collecting Easter eggs as you fill in the streets with numbers in ascending order. With single and double eggies on offer (if you match them to the appropriate loop numbers 0,6,8,9,10,16), in addition to points for pools, forests, and fulfilling contracts, this is a tasty solo to bring a fun weekend to a close.

#Welcometo #welcometoyourperfecthome #rollandwrite #flipandfill #flipandwrite #cardgame #boardgame #boardgameweekend #sologamer #boardgamesofinstagram #brettspieler #brætspil #giochidatavolo #jeuxdesociete

Dimensions from @kosmosgamesuk 🟢🔵⚪⚫🟠

Dimensions from @kosmosgamesuk 🟢🔵⚪⚫🟠

Check out @zatugames for a review of this super fun dexterity puzzle and more great games!

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Ooooh ooooh new reviews!! 🤓 ✏ 🤓 ✏ Part

Ooooh ooooh new reviews!! 🤓 ✏ 🤓 ✏
Part game, part sculpture, the beautiful @gigamic_france Abstract Strategy Collection has landed on our table and we can't keep our hands off the lloooovellly wooden pieces ♥ 🪵♟♥ 🪵♟♥ 🪵♟

♥ 🪵♟Pylos
♥ 🪵♟Quarto
♥ 🪵♟Quantik
♥ 🪵♟ Quoridor
♥ 🪵♟ Quixo
♥ 🪵♟Squadro

Check out @hachetteboardgamesuk for lots of videos and more details but a little birdie tells me they are heading to gaming stores very soon!!!

Also hitting favouritefoe.com is super sleuth @saggyhead with her new review of Suspects from @studio_h_games 🕵️‍♂️ 🕵️‍♀️ 🕵️‍♀️ 🕵️‍♀️ 🕵️‍♀️ 🕵️‍♀️ 🕵️‍♀️ 🕵️‍♀️ 🕵️‍♀️

Check out www.favouritefoe.com (link in bio) for these and more reviews, features, and photos!

A huge thanks to @hachetteboardgamesuk for sending copies of these games to us for review. We aren't paid for our comments or opinions. We just love sharing great games with all you lovelies ❤

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Ooooohhh MAIL CALL!! 📬 📭 📫 🍇 🍷 #

Ooooohhh MAIL CALL!! 📬 📭 📫

🍇 🍷 #viticulture from @stonemaiergames has arrived and we are VERY EXCITED!! 🍇 🍷

Preparing for a bit of a learning curve, but can't wait to get stuck in!! Huge thanks to @stonemaiergames for sending this full bodied berrylicious beauty to us so that we can let all you lovelies know our thoughts! 🍇 🍷

#viticulture #stonemaiergames #giftedgame #resourcemanagementgame #workerplacement #boardgamegeek #boardgamereviews #boardgames #brettspieler #brætspil #giochidatavolo #juegodemesa #jeuxdesociete #boardgameweekend #boardgamer #bgg #iloveboardgames #weloveboardgames

#firstimpressionsfriday🎲 as started by the love

#firstimpressionsfriday🎲 as started by the lovely @kay_plays_games and we have a hefty one this week! Hadrian's Wall by @garphillgames 🔪

This is a box filled to the brim with bits! And for a #flipandfill #rollandwrite (that doesn't actually have any dice!), that is not the norm! 🔪

But, then again Hadrian's Wall is not the norm in this genre. It is a big hitting resource management, engine building, combotastic, worker placement, hand management powerhouse streamlined into a box crossing exercise. And crossing you will do....lots and lots and lots of crossing! 🔪

Played over 6 rounds (years), you are a Roman General trying to construct and then defend part of the famous Hadrian's Wall, as well as attract people to your fort. You'll get a small number of different types of workers each round that you must then use to best effect. And best effect means cranking up your engines, managing your resources, and triggering cascading combos that will make your eyes water! Each decision will cause something else to happen. Perhaps a resource, perhaps an extra defence....so many. Too many to detail here! 🔪

With you eye on the ultimate prize (piety, valour and disciple mean points in this game!), you'll also be having to defend attacks directly from the game each year than increase in strength. And if your fortifications aren't up to scratch, you will be punished in disdain (and negative marks!) 🔪

Honestly, I wavered on jumping into Hadrian's Wall because I worried that my AP could make it unplayable and therefore not enjoyable for anyone. 2 sheets filled to the brim with instant decisions, consequences, and nowhere to hide. But, being effectively a multiplayer solitaire game where you are doing your thing whilst others do theirs, gives it a different feeling to sheer terror. Yes, everybody has to be ready to move to the next round (year) eventually. But with so much going on, a slower pace seems to be an advantage. 🔪

With so much still to learn and try, I'm really looking forward to getting deeper into Hadrian's Wall!

Have you played?

@garphillgames #hadrianswall #flipandwrite #boardgame #boardgames #tabletopgames #boardgamer #boardgamegeek #boardgamesofinstag

#thematicthursday as started by @prestonsgamersgui

#thematicthursday as started by @prestonsgamersguild and this week we see spotlighting technology 🤖 🚗 🏗✈🛶🎮

Technology comes in many forms but one game that shows a particular advancement is Trambahn by @mayfairgames 🚊 🚎 🚋

From horse drawn carriages to electric trams, in this game, the more advanced the tech, the more expensive it is to buy. But if you can afford to run the super speedy services, the higher point multipliers will make it worth your while! 🚊 🚎 🚋

I love Trambahn ❤ It involves mutliple use cards, a speedy race/reverse race mechanism akin to the superb veteran 2 player gem Lost Cities, and multiple chances to score and rescore growing sets - it's a great game that doesn't get enough love!

#boardgame #boardgamer #analogaming #tabletopgame #brettspieler #brætspil #giochidatavolo #juegodescartas #jeuxdesociete #trambahn #mayfairgames #twoplayergame #bgg #boardgamecommunity

#anothergameofftheshelf January challege smashed t

#anothergameofftheshelf January challege smashed tonight with this lovely little game🤗 👐 🤗 👐 🤗 👐 🤗 👐 🤗 👐 🤗 👐 🤗 👐

Panorama by @tabletop_tycoon Sparkworks @offdutyninjas is a sweet little game about, yup, building panoramas filled with animals and natural features. With two slim cutely illustrated decks (Dawn and Dusk), play is swift but peaceful.🤗 👐

Playing games solo somehow feels even more hygge so I opted for the single player mode. Beginning with a starting card from the Dusk deck, you reveal two cards off the top and pick one to place either side of the starting card. 🤗 👐

Every card will be either an animal or a feature with a scoring criteria on it e.g. a Bear which scores if it is located between two tree cards, or the Northern Lights which score if you can place other Northern Lights cards either side of it. The only cards without their own scoring rules are foxes and trees - these help achieve the points up for grabs if you satisfy the criteria on the other cards. 🤗 👐

You can place a card so long as the mountain range on it lines up with the background of the card next to it. If you can't place a card either side of the cards in front of you, you must place it face down (thereby removing its point scoring powers). 🤗 👐

Once placed, you draw another two cards and add them to the pool. This continued until you have 10 cards in your Panorama. Then you do the same with the Dawn deck and add up the score from both. 🤗 👐

Super simple to learn and play, its a lovely one to puzzle over whilst sipping a warm comforting drink. The scoring objectives present a little bit of thinkiness for when my brain needs a hygge hug in gaming form. But nothing overwhelming or overly complicated. The artwork is lovely to look at too 🤗 👐

And with a 15 minute playing time, there's plenty of chances to play a few rounds free from pace or pressure.

Thanks @saggyhead for another excellent #anothergameofftheshelf

#boardgame #panoramagame #sparkworks #offdutyninja #tabletoptycoon #spatialgames #cardgame #tableaugames #ilovecardgames #iloveboardgames #brettspieler #brettspiel #analogaming #tabletopgame #boardgamereviews #boardgames #boardgamer

What's worse? Losing by a lot or losing by a littl

What's worse? Losing by a lot or losing by a little???? I was bested at the excellent #rollingrealms from @stonemaiergames tonight by a mere 0.3 points!!!!! 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

Just two banked hearts and a coin separated us and to me that stung more than a landslide loss......so close but alas no victory dance! Haha

Good old Viticulture and Wingspan were my favourite and reliable 🌟 producing Realms tonight 🍇 🐦 Pendulum and Euphoria in contrast were tricksy little numbers!

What's your favourite Realm? If you'd like to read more about the inspiration for #rollingrealms and Stonemaier Games, head to www.favouritefoe.com (link in bio!) and check out my interview with Jamey Stegmaier, as well as full reviews for Stonemaier super stars #wingspan
#RedRisingCollectorsEdition
#RedRising
#betweentwocastlesofmadkingludwig
And much more!

#boardgamegeek #bgg #boardgamereviews #rollingrealms #stonemaiergames #rollandwrite #analogaming #tabletopgame #boardgames #boardgameaddict #brettspieler #brætspil #giochidatavolo #jeuxdesociete #juegosdemesa #favouritefoe

🚔 CRIME 🚔 #onewordmanypictures #rauccius

🚔 CRIME 🚔

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#rauccius #panatzugaming #bggcommunity #boardgamefriends

(No meeples were hurt in the production of this photograph)

#macromonday 📷 Where is this money hunting me

#macromonday 📷

Where is this money hunting merchant usually found?

Perhaps hanging out with the Black Cats 🐈‍⬛ Or maybe the Hooting Owls 🦉

Either way we have great fun collecting and selling sets of magical objects for golden coins.....and of course taking a few from each other if we are smart with our allegiances!

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Game featured: Kameloot by @blueorangegames @blueorangenews @coiledspringgames

If you would like to know more, check out www.favouritefoe.com for a full review!

@unfringedthings also has some excellent behind the macro lens info for us this week - what would you like to see through your macro lens?

#boardgamecommunity #bgg #boardgamefriends #boardgamefamily

⚙ #mechanismsmonday ⚙ and this week @tlacuache

⚙ #mechanismsmonday ⚙ and this week @tlacuaches.enlamesa has chosen storytelling! 📖 📕 📘 📗 📓 📚

Narrative led, choose your own adventure games are all about a story that unfolds as you make key decisions. Choices and options that change the course of the tale being told. A great compact little series of these games is the Cartaventura series by @hachetteboardgamesuk @blam_edition Purely card based and portable, these are a great choice for those wanting an immersive adventure with replayability (5 different endings!). I have already cracked into Lhasa and Vinland but there is a 3rd instalment on the way very soon!

Another type of game that has a huge narrative, storytelling element is the escape game. I was lucky enough to be sent a copy of Grand Hotel Abaddon by @kosmosgamesuk and this is a super choice that integrates tech with traditional tale telling. This was a real head scratcher in parts but we found it a great challenge that those who can think laterally will really enjoy!

Want to join in with #mechanismsmonday as started by @jim.gamer it's easy. Just pop a picture on here and use the hashtag!

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#boardgameday #bgg #boardgamecommunity #boardgameaddict #boardgamemechanisms #kosmosgamesuk #hachetteboardgamesuk #studioh #storygames #narrativegames #chooseyourownadventure #escapegames #boardgamefriends #boardgamersofinstagram

What's better than a weekend of gaming? A weekend

What's better than a weekend of gaming? A weekend of gaming with a fantastic bunch of friends of course! ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗

We were absolutely honoured to play host to these lovelies, and we were even crowned King and Queen 👸 🤴🏽 after @shadowmeeplemedia found the "cat poop" charm in the delicious Galette de Rois expertly cooked by one of our guests! (No cat poop was really in the pudding!! Haha) ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗

Friendship forms in many ways and at many times. Virtual beginnings and a world in turmoil may have been the start of our connection. But this sweet, gentle, kind, generous, talented, and incredibly funny bunch are now lifelong buddies (whether they like it or not! Haha) ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗

More details and thoughts about the games we played will come. But for now, I just wanted to say not only a huge thank you to them for putting up with us, but to you alll - together we are a community that pays it forward every single day. Together, we make these experiences possible. Together we have an opportunity to have amazing people in our lives, and the privilege of calling them our friends ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗

What is that sparking under the surface of the wat

What is that sparking under the surface of the water?? It's Into the Blue by @funnyfoxgames and @hachetteboardgamesuk 🐟💎

Reina Knizia has created a fast playing puzzly little push-your-luck dice chucker for 2-5 players and we are having a blast playing it! 🐟💎

Super easy to learn; you roll the dice up to 3 times trying to create a sequence of numbers from 1 - treasure chest (6) to be able to drop your shells onto the various depth levels shown on the dive board. The player with the most shells on each level by the end of the game wins the highest level of points available for each dive depth (with 2nd place getting the lower and everyone else getting none!) 🐟💎

So long as your sequence starts with a 1, you can choose which corresponding number on the dive board to place your shell(s) e.g. if you roll 1-2-3-3-4-5, you could place two shells on level 3 or one shell on any other level. If you roll a perfect 1-2-3-4-5-chest, you get to pick a random chest from the bottom of the sea that is worth secret points at the end! 🐟💎

With only 12 shells in total, we are ❤️loving how rolling and re-rolling runs the risk of messing up a growing sequence, but how tempting it is to go for the perfect treasure troving dive! And this game is even better at higher player counts where there are more shells packing out each dive level and more players hunting for those treasure chests!!🐟💎

❤️ loving how tricksy it can be to decide whether to shoot for a slower shell build up at the deeper levels (as there will only ever be max 2 5s on any roll) or to pack out the lower numbers quick to guarantee at least some points! Although that means burning through your shells faster too!🐟💎

I sometimes struggle with the stress in push-your-luck games, but the dice rolling in Into the Blue feels super exciting and the fact it plays so fast means we can (and do!) just go again so this is an instant filler hit for us! Huge thanks to @hachetteboardgamesuk for sending us a copy for review. As always, I'm not paid for my opinions - I just love sharing great games with you lovelies ❤️🐟💎

#boardgames #tabletopgames #boardgamegeek #bgg #tabletopgaming #boardgamesofinstagram #boardgaming

#firstimpressionsfriday🎲 and we have Rainforest

#firstimpressionsfriday🎲 and we have Rainforest City from @origame.co in collab with @animalsandusacademy @forestschoolsingapore 🦜

As a supporter of games with additional educational value, the #favouritefoefunlearning side of me was v excited to try this! 🦜

🦜 Overview: this is a card laying game for 1 - 4 players about flora and fauna found in Singapore. You are building out a landscape made up of different habitats that are capable of supporting different species. But, as well as a home to call their own, they also need food to survive. As such, creating food chains that can sustain the animals you house is just as important. It's a fun, puzzly take on biodiversity which includes a novel turn-dial mechanism that determines what each player can make use of each turn.

🦜 First Impressions: I don't know much about the native species of Singapore, and so I was super keen to learn more! And, although familiar with territory building, tile placing puzzle games, this one feels a little different, and certainly more that meets the eye!

Once the active player has turned the dial and chosen their cards (leaving the other players to pick from the two cards their fruit player token points towards), players simultaneously lay down their territory cards matching up at least one adjacent habitat type. Interestingly, the flora and fauna cards (which contain the point scoring plant and animal life tokens), are only used to locate tokens rather than make up part of the landscape. Any tokens players cannot place on their landscape (because the territory types do not match the orientation of the flora and fauna cards) are consigned to the compost heap ready for negative marking at end game! And by then, should an animal not have a food chain to sustain it (by having the necessary number of lower value animals in their habitat), they score nothing too!

I love the fact that even on your turn you might not get what you need - balancing area building and token banking is a great tension. 🦜

🦜 Haven't tried advanced mode, co-operative or solo mode yet. But first play feels like a thematic, thinky, puzzle that's great for inspiring talk on conservation and biodiversity

#thematicthursday as started by @prestonsgamersgui

#thematicthursday as started by @prestonsgamersguild and this week (the first of 2022!) we have books 📚

Having played a few Push-your-luck games this week, the Quacks of Quedlingburg by @coiledspringgames sprang to mind!

These colourful little spell books are such a charming component - I think they might actually be my favourite bit! What's your favourite component?

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#quacksofquedlinburg #pushyourluckgames #thematicthursday #iloveboardgames #boardgameaddict #bgg #boardgamecommunity #boardgamer #boardgames

I ❤ solo card games and my collection has some e

I ❤ solo card games and my collection has some excellent ones. Having ranked my collection on @pubmeeple at the end of last year, I was inspired to look deeper into what sits on my shelves.

Did you know you can download some utterly fantastic games for just a few pounds from @pnparcade ? Here is my Top 9 list of the ones I have downloaded to date.

Games I haven't been able to get from shops and online stores are available from @pnparcade in pdf format. This is especially true of the epic 18 card series by @buttonshy which seem impossible to get hold of over here, but are some of my favourite puzzly games for when space and time are tight.

With a bit of printing and card sleeving, I am now the very proud and happy owner of:

🃏 Agropolis by @buttonshy
🃏 Circle the Wagons by @buttonshy
🃏 Food Chain Island by @buttonshy
🃏 Skulls of Sedlec by #buttonshy
🃏 Sprawlopolis by @buttonshy
🃏 Tussie Mussie by @buttonshy
🃏 Ukiyo by @walnutgamesuk *
🃏 Winterhaven Woods by @featherstonegames
🃏 Orchard by @sideroomgames

Have you downloaded and DIY printed any good games? Do you have any tips for someone new to print and play techniques you'd like to share? I would definitely recommend sleeving the cards you create - personally, I like to use Dragonshield clear for easy shuffling but there are lots of excellent sleeve options out there!

*I didn't print this one myself but it is available to download from @pnparcade

#boardgamegeek #bgg #boardgamecollection #boardgamers #boardgamefriends #boardgameaddict #boardgamefamily #cardgame #pnparcade #buttonshy #ilovecardgames #diygames

🚀 ROCKET 🚀 #onewordmanypictures #rauccius

🚀 ROCKET 🚀

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🚀 Space Base by @alderaceg @seniorwatashi

🚀 Ganymede by @sorrywearefrench @hachetteboardgamesuk

⚙ #mechanismsmonday ⚙ as started by @jim.gamer

⚙ #mechanismsmonday ⚙ as started by @jim.gamer and today we have trick taking games

I don't own any purely trick taking games so far as I know. But I did play the excellent #Shamans by @studio_h_games when visiting our super pals @saggyhead and @marvin_marigolds back in the summer. The teach was clear (thanks Marv!) and we really enjoyed the game which was unlike anything we had played before!

Besides the hypnotically beautiful artwork, this game has a really interesting, traitorous twist. The hidden role you take at the beginning (shaman or shadow) won't necessarily be the role you play throughout the game. Using bluff and blagger, as well as some keen deduction, you can switch it up as many times as you need in order to survive long enough to see the Shaman overpower the Shadows and secure your world's survival.

#studioh #Shamans #mechanismsmonday #tricktaking #bgg #boardgamecommunity #boardgamefriends #boardgamers #boardgames #weloveboardgames #iloveboardgames #ilovecardgames #boardgameaddict #boardgamer #tabletopgame #analogaming #hiddenrolegames #bluffinggames #socialdeduction

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