During this easter holidays Heidi and I were a little bit in paparazzi mood. We took pictures of our 2 main activities: board-gaming and disc-golfing. So I thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the pictures, and some of my thoughts with you.
For me, the two nicest games this weekend were Pompeji, of course (my new favorite), and Ricochet Robots. The boys played a lot of Notre Dame too, among other games.
The Robot game was specially nice when playing on Sunday evening, with lots and lots of people. Having a lot of people trying to solve the puzzle was very interesting and exiting. Also the new extra robot gave a nice boost on the game, people wanted to solve the puzzle so that they could finally tell their own idea of a new rule to the extra robot, and it was fun, fun, fun.
Heidi, post the pictures of the whole crew playing the Robot game, it was great!
Pompeji is a nice and light game, easy to learn and family friendly. The only problem is that if you forget to do one little thing in the beginning of the game, I mean, if you do the set up wrong, the game is pretty much screwed. I think this weekend we did all possible wrong things in the set up... But I hope that because we did so, we have learned it and it will not happen again. Once the set up is done correctly, the game is really nice. Burning other player's tolkiens give a funny atmosphere, and I really like the "running away from the city of Pompeji" last phase.
Maybe the reason why I like this game a lot is because its really easy to get into the theme, I mean, populating the city and running away from the volcano, but at the same time it's completely nonsense and abstract. I would never throw my sister-in-law's children into the volcano in order to let my people run away from the town, hahaha.
Tarmo, Ilka, Markku and Olli playing Yspahan
I still owe Ilka 32 hugs for the right of taking and publishing this picture..
I have uploaded most of my pictures in my picasa album. Check it out, enjoy :)
Happy easter! Mari
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Pompeji became one of my favourites too. Probably the best one out of all those games for children :P
Also Yspahan rocks, at least after two plays. You need skill to cope with the heavy random factor. Something I enjoy.
Yspahan was a positive experience to me too, supersuperfast game. Albeit luckfest, but surely the better player wins in the long run. And as a game lasts 20min, yuo can play it over and over again.
For me the best game of the weekend was an old favorite - Tarock. There's just something really intriguing about it. Can't seem to get enough.
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