Sunday, April 6, 2014

Tabletop Day!

Yesterday was International Tabletop Day!
Congratulations and a big heap of thanks to all those involved in making this day a reality!

Tabletop, for those who don't know (as I didn't until recently), is an online video series hosted by Wil Wheaton and populated with some of his moderately famous gaming friends. In the series they play and demo board games for your amusement and edification. They explore the rules and pieces while making an entertaining watch.

International Tabletop Day is a day to gather friends and family and game your heart out! Lots of locations world wide offer tournaments and contests with give-aways and prizes. There is sure to be a location near you. And if there isn't, you should start one! And while the day may be over for this year there is no harm in planning your own board game get together- or planning for next year!

My day saw me at the Kingston Gaming Nexus with my mother, where we tried out three games new to us.

First up was Zen Garden:
Zen Garden is a deceptively simple game requiring you to make patterns from tiles to form a garden. There are several modes of play, but we only cracked the first.
It seems we were the first at Nexus to play this game, as the tiles still needed punching out!
We played this twice to a tie.

Next up was the Tabletop sponsored Love Letter!

A quick little game, this one requires you to guess at your opponent's hand in order to acquire the enduring love of a princess. 
We played this once and mum beat my pants!

Finally we played a game of Seven Dragons!
A dominoes style game where parts of the card must match up. You are trying to be the first to match up seven of your hidden goal dragon colour.
I won the one game we played of this, though mum was raring for a rematch. 
However food took precedence.

So all in all it seems mum and I are at a tie! 
What game should we play to break this tie? 
Post your suggestions in the comments!

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