Weekend Roundup - Board gaming + Eldritch Horror

Hello everyone,

I have been a bit quiet as of late, currently studying for two IT certifications CCNA and CompTIA A+.  Just to update my skills and getting into a bit of Cisco switches and routers, a nice thing to add to the resume'. I also run a sandblasting business and the past 2 weeks I've been busy working that also.  In the future I hope to a get a full game of Eldritch Horror (boardgame) in with my gaming group, the last game ended up being abandoned due it running into the 3 hour mark as we ran into a nasty in game surprise that resulted in our party having to complete an objective all over again.  Eldritch Horror is a very brutal game however not as complex as Arkham Horror but still a good bloody time nonetheless.

Will ruin your life and your friends... should you convince them to play it.

The past weekend I had an epic game of Munchkin Deluxe with just the standard cards, my gaming group was not convinced that it would be as good as I claimed it to be... how wrong they were!.  The rule-book not being written in the most logical way, we managed to figure most of it out and had a blast.  I finished dead last (level 3 max!) every time but that was due to me being the arsehole messing with everybody who was fighting a monster, needless to say my pursuits of misery ended up being sewn only for me to reap later on.

A damn good time, especially if you like to step on peoples necks for treasure.

We also managed to squeeze in Ticket To Ride & Dixit.  Ticket To Ride, if you do not own this, do not hesitate to purchase it as even your significant non gamer other will play this along with the whole family; money well spent.  Dixit is in the same category too, interesting game of using beautiful abstract illustrations and your mind to interpret them amongst your friends.  I won't reinvent the wheel so here is the description taken from Board Game Geek.

Rarely a game surprises me, this one did immensely!

"One player is the storyteller for the turn and looks at the images on the 6 cards in her hand. From one of these, she makes up a sentence and says it out loud (without showing the card to the other players).

Each other player selects the card in their hands which best matches the sentence and gives the selected card to the storyteller, without showing it to the others.

The storyteller shuffles her card with all the received cards. All pictures are shown face up and every player has to bet upon which picture was the storyteller's.

If nobody or everybody finds the correct card, the storyteller scores 0, and each of the other players scores 2. Otherwise the storyteller and whoever found the correct answer score 3. Players score 1 point for every vote for their own card.

The game ends when the deck is empty or if a player scores 30 points. In either case, the player with the most points wins the game.

The base game and all expansions have 84 cards each."

Thats enough from me, have a good one all!