It’s Friday.
I don’t care if Monday’s blue
Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too
Thursday I don’t care about you
It’s Friday I’m in love
Yes. I’m love with Essen Spiele. Reading the Geekbuzz I’m looking forward a full day of game. At 9:05 we were already sitting at Offshore tables, before the arrive of people from the company. Quickly went through the rules and ready to drill!!!
We are bere again in the Messe all three of us: Caterina, Francesco and I.
This time reaching Essen was without any real problems. We had to change the hotel since Jung was closed this year but Ruhr Hotel is quite good and close to the Spiele.
Caterina is recording a Video of our trip and I hope to upload it as soon as it is ready (I hope it won’t be too much out of place)
As with my past coverage, I’ll be posting each day about (1) what’s hot, (2) what I played, and (3) general thoughts on the convention. I haven’t had the chance to play many games so far: I typically spend the first day shopping, then the next three days playing games.
If you missed the post last night, I had initial impressions of Anubixx, Azul Summer Pavilion, and Chartae. Today’s initial impressions are of Evidence and Nova Luna.
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Alan R. Moon’s Ticket to Ride is one of the favorite games among writers of this site. It was #1 on our list of 50 Modern Classics, and it was #1 on our list of games to play first when entering the hobby. Ticket to Ride is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, and though we’ve written our history of the game, the best account of Ticket to Ride’s past is on an insert in the recently-released 15th Anniversary edition. Ticket to Ride won the Spiel des Jahres in 2004, and then the Europe map won the International Gamers Award in 2005.
There are about 27 different maps by our count, but what are the 10 best maps?
Continue readingIn what is becoming a nice opening tradition, we have a fantastic homemade dinner and a chance to play a new game with an old friend Frank Schulte-Kulkmann.
Two years in a row now, we have gotten an early copy of the new game from Repos, Last Bastion. This is a new version of Ghost Stories.
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Essen 2019, Day 0: Initial Thoughts, and What I Played (Article by Chris Wray)
Essen 2019 will officially start tomorrow, but Day Zero (or “setup day”) was today. Today starts my daily coverage of the fair, including mini-reviews of what I played.
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