Lost a game of Creature Comforts played with friends. Still enjoy playing. Made a cozy little house for my critters to spend the Winter.
Played Quest 11 of Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall. We were defeated, I think by some gargoyles if I remember correctly. We seem to be getting slapped around pretty good recently. I think we needed at least one of our characters to be much stronger on defense to absorb more damage. But we should be getting close to the end of the story now.
Played Harmonies at the board game meet up. It’s a game of stylized ecosystem building. You place tokens that describe terrain types and place animals in their habitats to gain points. I won.
After Harmonies, we played Hardback. It’s kind of a deck-building version of Scrabble. You start with a deck of cards with letters on them and on your turn you have to make a word and the letters used determine how many points or coins you get. You use coins to buy new letters to add to your deck. It was fun. It solves one of the biggest issues with Scrabble which is your turn is often highly impacted by the other players so you often need notable time to make a move during your turn which slows the whole game down. In Hardback you can figure out your word and then just play it when its your turn so everything goes pretty quick. I lost.
And after Hardback, we played Stockpile–a game about engaging in insider trading on the stock market. Not my typical choice of game concept, but the mechanics are well designed and I enjoyed playing. I lost.
Back at home we played a round of Kodama: The Tree Spirits with friends. Grow your tree and create cozy homes for the tree spirits. I lost.
Introduced the girls to Heat: Pedal to the Metal. I gave them a substantial advantage in having additional heat cards and fewer stress cards while giving myself a substantial handicap of fewer heat cards and more stress cards. I also handicapped the “computer” players. I put up a good fight, but Heather won in the end after I pushed too hard and spun out on the last lap. Corinne found the concept of intentionally using heat to push harder to be too stressful and chose to play it safe. She still came in second.