Board Game Madness 11/9

Sorry about the day late… BTW, anyone want to feel depressed that Stairway to Heaven is 40 years old???

Fun:

• Some AMAZINGLY attractive crokinole sets: Cthernie, Asunder, Frankenstein
• Monster-sized Jenga board. And an even bigger and stonier one! You could really get hurt playing this game!
• Would bandages and blood be considered appropriate garb for a game of Pandemic? How about a HAZMAT suit?
• Ingenuity at its finest – who needs a chess board???
• Some games really have an engaging theme and really pull you in. But then, sometimes they go a little too far and scare the begeezus out of you.
• Wow, this is an unbelievable dice sculpture by the artist Tony Cragg
• Some of you know I want to build my ultimate game table. This is what it takes from someone who did so at BGG. Of course, my design is much better.
• Contest: Take a picture of yourself and your dice in an exotic location and win a bunch of Q-Workshop dice and a bag. Yes, this is as strange as it sounds.
• Mmmmmm… chocolate covered dice <gurgle gurgle>
• In the news this week, Israel intimated that they might take a preemptive action against Iran to halt nuclear proliferation in the region. Well, how about a board game already in place to simulate this? And designed by military novelist Larry Bond.

New Games:

• Frankendie: Combine the pattern recognition game of Set with assembling creatures a la Norbert and you have this seemingly loud and fun game. Probably not out until after Christmas
• Carcassonne Expansions: From the I Wouldn’t Believe It If I… Wait, Who Am I Kidding Department, yes, three more expansions for the Rio Grande seminal tile laying game. Crop Circles, Plagues and Tunnels.

iOS:

• Trivial Pursuit has now taken to the iPad – available now
• Elder Sign: Omens released
• Dominant Species is still in testing (expect a couple of more months)
• Tigris & Euphrates updated to 11/14 release

News:

• Saturday 11/12 is National Gaming Day at Your Library! The writeup for North Merrick is “Join the North Merrick Public Library, as thousands of libraries throughout the country host special gaming events in celebration of National Gaming Day. There will be plenty of video games, board games and tournaments to entertain the whole family. Open to Teens, Tweens and their families.” Participating libraries are:
• North Merrick
• Farmingdale
• Island Park
• Long Beach
• South Huntington
• Huntington

Happy gaming!