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I just picked it up today! Honestly excited to try it.

ALWAYS. 🧀

You absolutely need to play with Upstairs Downstairs. The added servants really expand your options, and the adjustments to the passing action are such an improvement that I refuse to play without.

I adore this game and am happy to play a w you on BGA if you want!

I love an early Italy grab. :P

Do you have a preferred strategy as France? (Don’t tell me if your gaming friends will be reading this!)

Friday night Obsession!

My tuxedo cat standing on a game I just set up and looking at me with insolence in his eyes.

Cato is the true master of WW1 trench warfare. (The game is A Forlorn Hope, a Hermann Luttmann design forthcoming from Wharf Rat Games.)

a cat standing on its hind legs looking at itself in a mirror ALT: a cat standing on its hind legs looking at itself in a mirror

Testing a game online today, which means we are all in the office, but we are at our computers with all of our doors closed. 😄

Episode 222 - Jeremiah McCall on Designing Historical Games for Class - Beyond Solitaire This week on the pod, Jeremiah McCall returns to talk about the publication of his book, Designing History Games for Class. We also chat about his current educational designs, and about how he assigns...

Hey the episode where I get to gush about Designing Historical Games, the book is up on @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social podcast!!! Always such a pleasure, Liz! Thanks so much for letting me share this labor of love!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEcg... if you want to see our faces.

That was fun! I've never done a Raddle puzzle before!

1) Introduction to Sahidic Coptic
2) Apocryphal Apocalypses
3) Biological Toxins and Poisons
4) Hellenistic Philosophy
5) Anthropology of Music

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Your fault for using Audible. Time to switch to Libro.fm.

YouTube video by Beyond Solitaire Thoughts from a Minnesota Gamer

I don't like being this vulnerable in public but I also felt like I had to say something. youtu.be/1qlEn8ob2ns

YouTube video by Beyond Solitaire Beyond Solitaire Podcast 221: Diana Toma on Meeple Foundry

The podcast returns! I had a blast talking to Diana Toma of Meeple Foundry. youtu.be/oV-oR90HFv8

Finally started Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy, starting with Palace Walk. This was an incredible read about an overbearing father who can't cloister his family forever--and who can't hide from the upheaval of the Egyptian Revolution.

But of course. :)

Not yet... >:)

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Instead of watching an execution, you can:

Give money to people in Minnesota doing the work: www.standwithminnesota.com

Give $ to people in YOUR AREA doing the work, for me it's a group like CASA: wearecasa.org

Organize or join a candlelight vigil.

Give to a foodbank.

Talk to your neighbors.

Another graphic novel about fighting fascism, Partisan is very good and very dark.

Wednesday is comic book day! When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee is excellent.

We are playing over several weeks so it’s early Republic and we will find out!

This is on my to-read list! Very excited about it.

VASSAL.

It's Republic of Rome night! Six factions vie for dominance as war looms with the Macedonians and Carthaginians.

YouTube video by No Pun Included Is Every Game REALLY Political?

Can’t leave out this @nopunincluded.com video! youtu.be/9l6u07zYUho?...

@djackthompson.bsky.social Let's do this for some WNBA games next season!

Having a college gymnastics stream party with one of my college besties! It's Minnesota vs. Michigan. She went to UMich, but I will obviously be cheering for the Gophers.