KRIKKE

Games we played: Omen (before I arrived), Seven Prophecies, Verdun, Successors, Magical Athlete, Northern Pacific, Napoleon's Triumph, Things in Rings, Xylotar, Habemus Papam, Tulip Bubble, Lure, Frank's Zoo.

Another Homo Ludens meetup weekend in the books. Always great to meet some of the amazing folks (historical gaming nerds) of the discord server in Brussels and play some games.

Land and Freedom on Rally The Troops – Playing the Spanish Civil War YouTube video by Homo Ludens

I'll be playing a game of Land and Freedom on the Homo Ludens channel today. Going to be fun. www.youtube.com/live/IQqU9z2...

Had a look at some Gorkowski designs today.

I got to play Schadenfreude, Le Torri di San Gimignano, Torchlit, Lazy Bellboys, Sandannotou, Rainbow, Maskmen, Land and Freedom, Successors, 1889, For Sale, Rebel Princess, Seas of Strife, and Pax Penning. Great success!

And that's a wrap!

Last games of the convention, this was amazing.

Last day of the mini Homo Ludens convention, we need energy.

Successors was a blast. We continued with a six player game of 1889.

And we're off with game 1 of the second day.

A couple of games that hit the table on day 1 of the Homo Ludens meetup/mini-con. Now getting some rest for some epic games on day 2.

Ready for the Homo Ludens meetup event in Brussels. Way too many historical board games, trick takers and train games? Check. Plexi? Check. Belgian beer? Check.

Chaotic? According to my intel, everything is going rather smooth. Only the French delegation is disrupted, which is to be expected.

Wargame tip: you can use cube4me small card trays to store counters of folio games.

I guess it depends on the game, how opaque/entangled the game state tends to be.

People are lazy (see Thinking, Fast and Slow). Staying ahead of one other player is easier to calculate than staying ahead of every other player. Optimal decision making is being substituted by a problem that is easier to tackle.

It is already on there!

I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).

To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.

If only...

Nobody was interested in the juicy revenue of Kotohira?

Wind the Film! aka Photograph (yes, I realized the red 10 was incorrect)

Resist!

Some card games with exclamation marks hitting the new playmat this weekend.

Holding upside down + visual check is the way. Never had any problems like this.

Hanabi is always a hit with physicists.

Apparently, sketching nanoelectronic device layouts very quickly on a Zoom Whiteboard gives away that you play video games.

Straight paths are boring.

Some light wargames hit the table while going through a second round of Covid.

A side benefit of a board game collection is that you don't need to buy expensive toys for kids. A random grab of board game components provides endless entertainment.

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