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Spiel des Jahres Nominations 2025

The nominations for the 2025 Spiel des Jahres Awards have just been announced.  Although there are now other lots of other awards (including the recently announced Golden Geek Awards), this is still the most prestigious award in board gaming and certainly the one that carries the most weight when it comes to casual gamers.  There are three categories, the Kinderspiel (children’s game) , the…

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Golden Geek Awards - 2025

The winners of BoardGameGeek‘s Golden Geek Awards have been announced this month.  There are many Game awards, with the foremost being the Spiel des Jahres Awards and Deutscher Spiele Preis, Both of these are German in origin, with the Spiel des Jahres awards chosen by a panel of experts and the Deutscher Spiele Preis resulting from an open vote by games clubs, gamers and people in the industry. …

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Next Meeting, 13th May 2025

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 13th May 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Due to a recent change of hands, the pub is NOT doing food at the moment. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Moon (rules, tutorial video, review).  This is a card drafting game where players construct bases,…

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Next Meeting, 29th April 2025

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 29th April 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Due to a recent change of hands, the pub is NOT doing food at the moment. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Creature Comforts (rules, tutorial video, review).  In this game, players spend Spring, Summer, and…

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18th March 2025

The evening began with the arrival Ruby and Flint, friends of Teal, who had come along despite the fact he wasn’t able to be there to introduce them to everyone himself.  They introduced themselves as people finished their supper and prepared to play the “Feature Game” which was to be Cartographers Heroes, the standalone sequel to Cartographers.  Cartographers was probably the best of the roll…

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Next Meeting, 22nd April 2025

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 22nd April 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be the Newleaf expansion to Everdell (base game rules, tutorial video, review;…

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Next Meeting, 8th April 2025

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 8th April 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Fire Tower (rules, review, How to Play video), a competitive game where…

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Next Meeting, 25th March 2025

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 25th March 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Habesuto (aka ハーベスト or Harvest; rules, review, video review with…

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Next Meeting, 18th March 2025

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 18th March 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Cartographers Heroes (rules, review, how to play video), the standalone…

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4th March 2025

Once people had finished eating, the group settled down to play. There was quite lot interest in the “Feature Game” which was Finspan, a fish-themed version of one of the group’s favourite games, Wingspan.  It is advertised as shorter and lighter than the original, but in the event it was only slightly shorter and not much lighter though it was generally agreed to be a bit smoother and therefore…

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Next Meeting, 4th March 2025

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 4th March 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Finspan (rules, review, how to play video), a fish-themed, slightly lighter…

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18th February 2025

Blue and Pink began the evening, while they waited for their supper to arrive, messing about with a little card game called Rollecate which is about a historic steam locomotive built in 1967 by a famous Dutch engineer.  The idea of this little game is that players take it in turns to play Track cards to extend Rollecate’s line by placing cards.  They can play as many cards as they want, as long…

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4th February 2025

Blue and Pink were just finishing their supper when not one, but three copies of Ark Nova walked in, escorted by Ivory, Cobalt and Green.  This was because the “Feature Game” was to be its Marine Worlds expansion and, as Ark Nova is a substantial game that doesn’t get as many outings as it deserves, everyone was keen to give their copy a bit of an airing.  The game is much longer than those we…

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Next Meeting, 18th February 2025

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 18th February 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be Viticulture World (rules, review, how to play video), the cooperative…

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Next Meeting, 4th February 2025

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 4th February 2025.  As the “Feature Game” is on the long side, we will be starting that at 7.30pm with others playing shorter games as people arrive with slightly longer games from 8pm.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first. This week, the “Feature Game” will be the Marine Worlds expansion (rules,…

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21st January 2025

Blue and Pink were still eating as everyone else rolled up.  But as they did, like last time, there was an unusual amount of interest in the “Feature Game“, which, in a change to previous plans, was to be Heat: Pedal to the Metal.  This is a car racing game, in a similar vein to other games popular within the group like Flamme Rouge, Snow Tails, and Downforce.  Like Flamme Rouge and Snow Tails,…

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7th January 2025

Blue and Pink were early for a change and had mostly finished their supper when everyone else arrived.  The “Feature Game” was to be Concordia Venus which is a reimplementation of Concordia, but can also be played with an upgrade-expansion to the original game.  Concordia is a strategy game of economic development in Roman times and although the rules are relatively simple, the game has a lot of…