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| Anyone recommend a UK mail-order source for boardgames? | ||
| Hive AI notes | Jan. 25th, 2006 01:58 pm | |
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If you get a bug on top of the opponent's queen, you can place pieces directly adjacent to it... (NB: AI is using version 1 rules though...) | ||
| Hive online | Jan. 23rd, 2006 09:06 pm | |
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| http://www.hivemania.com/ | ||
| Ouch... | Jan. 21st, 2006 06:10 pm | |
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| Just played a game of Hive that lasted 80 minutes... | ||
| Oops, shopping | Jan. 15th, 2006 07:13 pm | |
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Bought Hnefatafl, Lost Cities and Puerto Rico expansion. Dropped off poster & flyers for http://www.londongamelist.info/ . Bloke behind the counter agrees that Hive is a fine game. I left rapidly to avoid being overly tempted by the 3D special edition Catan + K&C (£275). Playin' Games are looking for staff, BTW. Spent much of the afternoon in the Apple store watching presentations while reconfiguring my websites; their wireless network was a bit shafted though, possibly due to the muppets using it for streaming video. PS: http://www.ch3.org.uk/filestore/dis | ||
| Gaming and comics | Jan. 14th, 2006 09:48 pm | |
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Couple of comics really spoke to me today: http://www.ozyandmillie.net/2006/om2006 http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/arc Played three games today; Hive, which is quick, strategic and interesting, Byzantium, which is slow, confusing and, well, byzatine (but might be worth a clearer read of the rules) and Ave Caesar, which is always a great laugh. Was woken at 5 this morning by a fox barking outside the front of the house - gods but that's an unpleasant noise. Especially at 5am. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} bmovie last night was pleasant, although I didn't stay that late - good to catch up with a lot of people although the venue's still a dive. ('cos this is so classy...)
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| Today's games | Oct. 8th, 2005 09:00 pm | |
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Cube Farm Unexploded Cow Carcassonne Power Grid Ave Caesar | ||
| Second Saturday on Cavendish Street today | Oct. 8th, 2005 09:51 am | |
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http://www.livejournal.com/community/se | ||
| Re-plug | Sep. 19th, 2005 02:44 pm | |
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http://www.londongamelist.info/ - mailing list and website dedicated to board- and card- gaming in London. Slowly gathering members and info, but still needs a bit of a push. I may try and produce some sort of small poster to stick in Games shops later, while I wait for info to come through from work. | ||
| Calling all gamers | Aug. 23rd, 2005 01:14 pm | |
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I've just set up a central point for London board / cardgamers, comprising a mailing list and website. See: http://www.londongamelist.info/ Please propogate to anyone you think may be interested, and link as appropriate so's I can get the traffic up. TIA | ||
| Weekend, briefly | Aug. 14th, 2005 09:39 pm | |
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Friday: Bmovie. Great to see people, but FFS, sort the f'ing venue out. The Rats is turning into a "good enough for goths" dive - toilet doors that close and heating that turns off are not optional. Saturday: Second Saturday - quick hand of Cube Farm followed by Vinci (Risk, but quicker and more balanced) Party in the evening - ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} trishpiglet and babysimon have a great place, and people seemed to be enjoying themselves. K was wiped though so we headed home early.Today - overslept, but got a load of housework done - gets easier every time, and now even the cupboard under the stairs is organised. Received a new LCD monitor (thanks to d_floorlandmine for picking it up) and now have an older IBM 18" CRT to get rid of - any offers?
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| Jun. 11th, 2005 08:59 pm | ||
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Distinctly tired, but a brief update: BMovie was cool - seems that I know really rather a lot of the regs there now, which is good. Ended up getting the (2 hour-ish) nightbus route home (bloody busy, then when I get to Baker's Arms 4 38's pass in convoy!) and then up again (hence the start of this paragraph) for Second Saturday (about 9 there today - feel free to wave) where I had some good games of Coloretto, Gloom and Puerto Rico (tied for 1st). Do I get the feeling more people would turn up there if it wasn't after BMovie? Found that I play all of these games far too rarely and therefore takes me a while to get back into them each time - I need to play far more. As for Dr Who (as I arrived home at 1903) - WTF? "Is that a laser pistol in your pocket or... Oh, wait..." Oh... (PS: What's the verdict on the new icon? ;) | ||
| Second Saturday at a different location tomorrow! | Apr. 8th, 2005 06:43 pm | |
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| Games, en bref | Feb. 27th, 2005 10:33 am | |
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Pretty good day, really :) I think we satisfactorily proved that the carrying capacity of our lounge is 10, those 10 being (gratuitous roll-call):aegidian, asrana, conflux, cookwitch, d_floorlandmine, itsjustaname, silenttex, thekumquat, wechsler, valkyriekaren Games were: Settlers (x2), Scrabble, Unexploded Cow, My Dwarves Fly, and Gloom. "War and Sheep" caused much comment but it's only a 2PG and didn't get used. Contributions from Peter Sellers (never ask Karen about her David Niven anecdotes) and Versuvio Pizza rounded off a really fine afternoon / evening. Bit zoned out now so I'm not really catching the frequent hilarity and lunacy of last night (who "warned" itsjustaname about me anyway?), but I think it's going to have to be done again.
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| Second Saturday | Jan. 7th, 2005 12:16 pm | |
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starts at 1pm tomorrow (the site's not been updated, but the correct time is shown on the mailing list - apologies to the_cesspit for the confused SMSs I just sent him claiming otherwise). Bring your new xmas games! | ||
| Out of interest (RPGs) | Jul. 16th, 2004 12:56 pm | |
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1) Do you play RPGs ? 2) Which ones? 3) Do you GM? (brought on by reading ShadowRun "novels". Z-grade brain-candy, gotta love it ;) | ||
| Second Saturday, tomorrow | Jul. 9th, 2004 05:03 pm | |
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| The boardgamers amongst you may be interested in this. | ||