5-player Eclipse. During mid-game I suddenly realized it's actually an space-themed eurogame. A decent one, I have to say, but still... optimizing, reasearching, VP collection and this fixed amount of turns. I had played it once before - and as I remembered - game was won then by player who mainly explored "backwards" and kept distance from other players. I was, from other hand, flying around and battling and having other sorts of fun and was left on one of the last positions during final scoring. This time I tried also this cautious VP-collection optimised approach - and it was a success. Go figure.

World of Warcraft is a real monster we manage to play once-twice a year. With all the expansions it's full-day-game but we've achieved finishing it also in 5 hours (or so) with 2 players with some experience. The hardest part is to handle information from all the rulebooks from base game and expansions - should check if there is some compilation available in BGG. Next time we should customize also how much of the expansions we'll use - so far the additional map from Burning Crusade, for example, is used mainly for holding cards, as nobody has bothered to travel there. We'll see. Excellent adventure, anyway.

Mice and Mystics is a nice co-op with really good theme - and not only in storyboard but also details. Helmet is made from timble, chest armor from nutshell etc etc. Mechanics are also really cool, so would like to try this one again, especially as we won the first scenario. But this reminds me also of other good co-ops I haven't had time to play for quite a long time... Gears of War... D&D Castle Ravenloft...

I also had a chance to play Tokaido yesterday. I was quite curious as this game has had a decent hype about how elegant and zen and [insert your favourite here] this game is. I must say now that it is indeed a game with very simple rules and considerable amount of variety with short playtime. Something you could easily play 2-3 times during evening and even then have time for some other games as well. The hardest part for me was remembering what is my pawn's colour - as they are given out by random. I'm sure this can be houseruled out in some way.

And finally I'm glad that Roundhouse Kick will be out during next week. Rules are available here but I'm afraid the game won't be available in stores near you, as this first print run will be micro-size, so they'll be presented mainly in conventions/fairs. Or ordered.

I want to believe that the game is good (i.e. fun for me) even if you can score 141 points (out of 182) with final scoring. I really do... but do I have enough faith to try it once more? Seasons.

I was quite happy to see that our store was fully crowded during Tabletop Day with people playing all kinds of games, from Saboteur to Clash of Cultures and 1856. Everybody was having good time and that's what this event is all about.

I was part of the 18xx-gang with playing the 1856 and it was also a nice (a bit long-ish, though) experience. It was also one of the rare times this game ended with bankruptcy (had happened only once so far), so it was kind of "sudden death" experience for everybody. I was left third in 5-player game but I was happy with the result nevertheless - my game start and mid-play were executed almost perfectly, at the moment of bankruptcy I had two companies with 2 x 5-trains and 1x 6-train. Now I just have to start paying more attention to possible bankruptcy evasion mechanisms for other players, as well :) Actually in my first game of 1830 in 5-Nation Tournament I already had similar situation when I was facing option to trigger phase change and thus also bankruptcy of one player - but being an PBE-game I had more time for analysing and noticed that I would've been left in fourth place this way... so I had to postpone the triggering until next OR when the victim had already enough money to survive. So, third place from that event first round, as well.

Later we tried Kids of Carcassonne with 4 grown-ups - and this game ROCKS as a strategy game! :) Well, ok... let's say as strategical party game - or something like that. Anyway, I haven't laughed so much for a long time as I did when playing this game, 4 times in a row. It's fast, it's highly tile-dependant and every move you make is good either for you or somebody else. Most of the times - for somebody else.

Dominion is a game, too dry for me for playing it with friends. Strange thing is, though, that as Android app - it's quite entertaining. I have played it 60+ times on tablet - but I have no desire whatsoever to even try playing it face-to-face. Go figure.