’nuff said!

My partner and I wanted to start hosting weekly game nights at ours for our friends to come over but we never thought we’d find such entertaining games. On a recent holiday we played Carcassonne and really enjoyed it and by searching “Carcassonne best game ever” your blog came straight up lol We are going to invest in some of these other games you’ve suggested and see if we can get a weekly game night going

Keep up the good work!
Greg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zVhjux_LdA

I bought them and saw a few crappy ones at http://www.sphiatt.com, sphiatt is alright but fairly slow shipping.

Dominion is a new board game (late 2008) from Rio Grande that is getting rave reviews on notable “gamer” sites like Board Game Geek. And for good reason! Balanced gameplay, easy to learn, fast to play, and variable in that each game starts with only any 10 of the 25 resource cards. Each player is trying to build a kingdom made up of land types with victory points but starting with the same cards. So the strategy revolves around how one builds ones own kingdom through buying of land, resources or money the fastest.

Memoir ’44 from Days of Wonder. While not a traditional wargame in the classic “hexes and chits” sense, the game’s superbly clear rules and ability to replicate the combat experience of lack of supplies, fog of war, inability to react as planned, and surprises in combat through a card-based system make this game both approachable and fun. The little plastic men, tanks, artillery pieces etc also add to the atmosphere. Supported by a wide range of expansion packs that cover the Eastern Front, Med Theatre, and others.

Gloom from Atlas Games is a macabre, atmospheric, tongue-in-cheek card game where the goal is to make your odd family as miserable as possible by adding Gorey-esque misfortunes onto each of your five characters, while trying to play happy events onto your opponents. When your character is suitably saddled with these “pathos” points, you get to kill them off. Low score after all five family members have met their maker, wins Great art inspired by Edward Gorey and the card’s unique see-through system of adding pathos points makes the game a quick-playing gem. The Unhappy Homes expansion pack is well worth the investment as you add a new family (for up to 5 players) as well as mysteries and the family home.

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