HELP! Is one of this year’s traditional card games that always appear at the SPIEL convention. There are usually two to four games in this little double deck box, and when I’m at the fair, I routinely come home with one or two of them each year. This year, I am not at the fair, but the great folks at Amigo sent me at least one to play.
My First Advent Calendar
So, I grew up as a Catholic in the Midwest, so I’m quite familiar with Advent Calendars. As it turns out, it might not be as common a phenomenon in other parts of the country. As my travels thru Germany have shown, Advent Calendars are a big part of the holiday season, and most of my trips through toy stores and department stores provide me plemty of choices for my Advent Calendar. enjoyment.
Steam Up places gamers in the midst of a dim sum restaurant – sitting around a common table, competing with each other to get the best selection of the tasty bite size treats as they come out! The board shows a turntable with spaces of 6 stacks of bamboo steamers. These are seeded with 2, 3 or 4 pieces of Dim Sum. The outside rim of the turntable has marks which designate an area for each player. Any steamers which are wholly or partly in a player’s area can be taken by that player.
Website: https://lockpaperscissors.co/envy/
Players: we had 3 solvers
Time: took us 35 minutes
Lock Paper Scissors offers a number of escape kits – these print and play activities help your “transform your home into an immersive adventure”. They currently offer 6 different kits, each with a different theme. When you buy the kit, you’ll download all the files needed. The main escape room is found in one .pdf – this one spans 17 pages. If you look through the file archive, you’ll also find plenty of other files to help you transform your room with the theme – posters, costumes and other props can also be printed out!
Maeshowe – an Orkney Saga (Review by RJ Garrison or RJ enters solo gaming)
Designer: Lee Broderick
Publisher: Dragon Dawn Productions
Players: 1-2 players
Playing Time: 15-25 minutes
Ages: 12+
MSRP: €28.00
In the 1150’s two different sets of Norsemen under the prospective leadership of Jarl Rognvald and later, under the leadership of Jarl Harald broke into the Maeshowe tomb looking for treasure and relief from a snowstorm. While there, they were trapped and needed to dig their way out of the tomb. Some of their companions went mad.
In Lee Broderick’s game, Maeshowe, you play as one of two Jarls trying to dig your way out of the Maeshowe tomb before you either go mad or die from collapse or starvation.
How to play solo:
The game is fairly straight forward. A player will start with a hand of 5 cards and will then play a card and discard a card. The cards have a “play” effect and a “discard” effect that will affect your health, progress, and sanity.
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So, though gaming has been part of my life for the bulk of my adult years, in the grand scheme of things, it’s a relatively new hobby. I was astonished to see that one of the mainstays of my early gaming years, Carcassonne, just had its 20th anniversary. To celebrate, Hans im Glueck has arranged a special edition to celebrate this milestone.
