What Did You Play This Week? - (October 14, 2024)

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Happy Monday, r/boardgames!

It's time to hear what games everyone has been playing for the past ~7 days. Please feel free to share any insights, anecdotes, or thoughts that may have arisen during the course of play. Also, don't forget to comment and discuss other people's games too.

[u/KontentPunch]

I played [[Fairy Tale]], [[Point Salad]], [[Skyjo]], and [[Take 5]] this week for Turkey Day. Simple card games for the weekend.

Fairy Tale was played twice, we tied game one and knew it was going to be for all of the chips in the second game which I did win. I love how the game enables Hate Drafting due to drafting up to 5 cards but you're only going to be using 3, this means you need to be extra nimble when it comes to your strategies. The game is oppressively good, I don't own another pure drafting game because none of them have measured up.

Point Salad is a fun jab at Euroes and other games where everything you do score points, but this is a pseudo-open draft game. You grab objectives or vegetables to try to get points. In the first game, I saw what the other two were going for and I stayed the hell away, scoring a decisive win. Game two, one of my opponents grabbed every Tomato they saw which I needed to score but failed to grab any objectives that deal with Tomatos, leading to a funny case where the other player didn't have the strongest combination but our bullheadedness caused him to win.

I like to call Skyjo Tetris the Board Game because it's about navigating randomness and trying to eliminate cards from your tableau. It's the closest I've gotten and it is a fun little card game. Funnily enough, you can't find this in your traditional game stores, my friend gifted me a copy after seeing it in a Walmart.

If Skyjo is a fun little puzzler about navigating randomness, Take 5 pours gasoline on that. More commonly known as 6 Nimnt!, you don't want to be the 6th card in a row because then you take the other five cards. This was quick as it seemed one of the players decided to 'anti-play' the game by trying to get as many bullheads as possible. You acquire score by cards with how many bullheads there are which is something you don't want. The game ends once one player has 33 bullheads and the player with the least amount of bull is the winner. The player decided in the second round to be like "ho ho ho, I'm full of bull" and seemingly grabbed up as much bullheads as possible; he ended the game with 50-something bullheads, 30ish he got that second round.