January 2023 Meeting

With a good turnout of people again, at least ten different games were played, some old, some new, and some of them more than once.

Flamecraft, one of the prizes from our December meeting, was welcomed and enjoyed by those who played it.  It has dragons, who produce beautiful things, including cakes!   (There's some worker placement and resource gathering too).  I look forward to playing it next time it turns up.

Dune Imperium was played, as usual, this time with the Immortality expansion.  Root is a regular too - this time it was played twice.  Cascadia also put in a repeat appearance.

New to the club was Turing Machine, which obviously caught people's interest - it did a tour of the tables and was played three times!  It can be played as a co-op or competitively.  The object is to deduce a code, by asking yes/no questions to the "computer" which is created by layering perforated cards.

Kodama Forest was another new one - a pretty game, in which players share playing boards with the person on either side, placing different shaped forest tiles to be rewarded with pandas and butterflies.  Another attractive Kodama game was Tree Spirits, which involves laying cards in different arrangements to create trees supporting various flowers, insects etc.   This mechanism and artwork were very familiar to some of us, as the game turned out to be a reworking of Kigi, which used to turn up in the club a few years ago.

Innovation is a card based civilisation building game - this may have been its first outing at the club.  Towards the end of the day, some old favourites came out - Fluxx (funny and frustrating) and Azul (competitive tile-laying).

Next meeting - Saturday 11 February.