Sam / ceefox

Sunday #boardgames including Santorini, The Birth of the Post, Wonder Bowling and ESP: Experiment in Supersensory Perspicacity,

A game of Guildlands and multiple games of Pueblo today with friends (we also watched Isle of Dogs, as part of our regular movie night) - it's been wet and windy so a good day to stay inside and play #boardgames

Sunday #boardgames highlights - new to me today was Guildlands (by @kenboyter.bsky.social) a fascinating shared tile layer with asymmetrical scoring. Some replays of recent favourites - Giant Buffet and Hellas. And a club classic and reliable crowd pleaser - Faraway.

My favourite games are ones where you build languages together. Ideas getting short-handed by a micro-community, for fun. I think this is actually how friendships, loves, communities and cares get built by humans. Creating a private language is the quickest and deepest way to connect with someone.

Binged our way through a bunch of The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game today. Really enjoying puzzling our way through some of the chapters with friends. #boardgames

UK-based Osprey Games has let go of its entire board and card game development team and cancelled its booth at the upcoming Spiel Essen game fair - five months after parent company Bloomsbury began searching for a buyer for the operation: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Unintentionally thematic globetrotting trade route building #boardgame night tonight with both The Voyages of Marco Polo and The Guild of Merchant Explorers tonight.

Loving my new 'flashlight' profile pic for spooky season courtesy of @peripendrake.art

An exciting package of indie puzzles arrived today from Raviol (raviol.itch.io). I picked these up following @thinkygames.com featuring them a few weeks back, because I love rule discovery puzzle games!

The first time I played Joraku was with Tim at UKGE, it was nearing the end of the event and I was exhausted and overstimulated. He whipped out this unassuming little box of cards and I proceeded to have the best hour of the whole weekend.

Back from the weekly #boardgame club, I forgot to snap a couple but I played - Hellas, Emberheart, Wingspan: Pocket and Mino Dice.

We love the Minnesota State Fair, and this year's cake decorating theme was board games! Here are a few of our favorites for #NationalCakeDecoratingDay.

Hedgehog beat Fox the in Bank of England bank note design consultation, we can't have anything good in this country 😭

We will be recording a new episode of "But, Why Vikings?" this week. Would you like to ask us a question? Want the 3 Fates of boardgaming problems to peer into your quandries? Post questions in reply to this or fill out the form below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

RIV Blaseball

Some absolutely inspired artworks by friends in Create Camp tonight and also played more Tiger & Dragon which has firmly wormed its way into my brain as a recent favourite #boardgames

Recent games from the weekly #boardgames club - Mori (by @dnlnwmn.bsky.social), Tiger & Dragon (several games in a row, addictive stuff!), The Gang and Broom Service

Announcing Ante Up, Part 1 of The River Cycle, our next #Netrunner expansion! Featuring 66 new cards and a pair of preconstructed duel decks, and launching January 2027! Read all the details at nullsignal.games/blog/announc...

"Bury My Heart in Mockingbird Station" resonated deeply with me, and has been stuck on my head for weeks. Even here in the UK, as a gay man, the feelings of community rejection are strong from the post-industrial, slowly crumbling rural farm town that was once my home.

Had a chance to play this, and it's the most stupid (complimentary), chaotic fun. We kept on asking for one more game, it's so quick to play. Though don't get too enthusiastic like me and accidentally elbow your friend in the face 🫣

A new take on our format for 'But, Why Vikings?' as @ava.foxfort.net gets our first guest agony aunt on in @ecfriedman.com. A share and a rating on your podcast host of choice really helps us out! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Was at Tricks of the North con today, a one day event from Wigan Pies & Dice, of trick-takers, imports and other weird games. Was blessed by the company of @ava.foxfort.net and got to share some wonderful games including Sliced Anglerfish, Sosogisugi Sakazuki, Nokosu Dice and Create Camp #boardgames

UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE

Can't express how much joy Sosogisugi Sakazuki, aka dexterity game in a can, has been bringing to #boardgame nights

Some thinky #boardgames tonight, happy we managed to squeeze two chunkier games in. Picked up my own copy of Druids of Edora after a friend introduced me, and enjoyed trying a copy of Feya's Swamp.

a very high level Netrunner player just put out a 200 page book about Netrunner strategy, lfg tuno-nullsignal.itch.io/extract-expo...

More #boardgames at the weekly club today, featuring - The Gang: Deluxe (played with a whopping 9 players - we did not succeed), Nunatak: Temple of Ice, Sosogisugi Sakazuki and Wingspan: Pocket

Some chill #boardgames today between some couch collaborative group playing of puzzle video game He Who Watches (which is a banger by the way) - The Gang: Deluxe, Create Camp, Seas of Strife

Thank you so much to the hundreds of trans people and allies who joined today's mass lobby! The queue stretched across both sides of the road outside Parliament, and so many MPs participated in meetings and responded to green cards. Together, we delivered a powerful message for change 🏳️‍⚧️

On the train home, knackered after queuing and waiting a combined 4 hours just to get ghosted by my MP, but it was fantastic to see so many people turning out for @transsolidarity.bsky.social's Mass Lobby, many thanks to all their volunteers and organisers for facilitating the day!

In the queue at Westminster joining @transsolidarity.bsky.social's Mass Lobby for Trans Rights as an ally 🏳️‍⚧️

I cannot express how much I stand by this

Backed! And you should too, I haven't played Second Edition, but I absolutely adore the first and can't wait for this new version.

Netrunner EMEA Online Continentals is happening right now! 105 players, with the current world champion and other top players in attendance 🥵 Faction breakdown in the second pic -- this will be the same banlist for Worlds.

Tuesday night #boardgames! A friend managed to track down the Greenhouse expansion for Botanicus and we also tried another of the HamishCon indies - Rare Groove which is a trick taker with set collection and market manipulation.

Back again with another game. This time it’s a trick taker where you build out a mathematical expression like 3 x -4 + 1 - 3 over the course of four hands. Evaluating the expression gives you your score. cappallo.ca/games/calcul...

Even better than I remember

Managed to squeeze some bonus bank holiday dice based trick taking #boardgames, Mino Dice and Nokosu Dice, in after seeing Coyote Vs Acme (which was a lot of heartfelt fun)

Some #boardgames from the weekly club today - featuring Rise and Fall, Create Camp (check out my rhinoceros), Canyon (retro trick taker from 1997) and Giant Buffet

Just got back from seeing Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Y'all have gotta go see this movie, incredible euphoric and hedonistic work from Jane Schoenbrun.