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@msaari@mementomori.social · 4d ago
We played Guàn Dàn yesterday. John McLeod (of Pagat.com) was visiting Tampere recently and recommended this Chinese climbing card game to me. According to him, it's very popular in China right now. It has a couple of outstanding features among climbing games. It's a fixed partnership game like Tichu, and instead of counting points, it's about going out first and uses a Sheng Ji scoring system based on promotions. Each team starts on level 2 and as they win rounds, they get promoted. Eventually they reach the levels 10, J, Q, K and A, and if they win on level A, they win the game. You don't need to count points, the main thing that matters is that one of the team members goes out first. When the second team member goes out then affects how many promotion steps the team gets, so that's important too. The game is played with a double deck, which is dealt out completely. That means you start the game with a 27-card hand. Yes, that is bonkers. It takes a while to sort your cards, and it's difficult to take in everything in your hand. The combinations are small. You can play single cards, pairs, triplets, full hands, five-card straights (but not longer!) or six-card tubes (three consecutive pairs) and plates (two consecutive triplets). The only bigger combinations are bombs, which are at least four cards of the same number, but can be up to ten cards. The other bombs are a five-card straight flush and all four jokers. One team is always the declarers. Their current score is the level of the hand. The cards that match the level are the highest single cards after the jokers, and the hearts of that number are wild cards, which can be used as any card except the jokers. If we're on level 7 and declarers, the card rank is red joker, black joker, 7, A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and the 7s of hearts are wild. If you like bombs in Tichu, here you get to bomb a lot more. You don't always get a bomb in your hand, but often you have, perhaps more than one, and having a low bomb isn't all that great. I'm not surprised this game is called "throwing eggs", where "egg" and "bomb" both sound like "dàn" in Chinese. This is a longer game. Our game took nine rounds and two hours, so almost 15 minutes per round. It was the first play for everyone and there was a pub quiz going on at the same time, so I assume it's going be a bit faster in the future. But shuffling, dealing and sorting your hand will always be a bit slow. The game also has rules where you can fall from level A to level 2, which is brutal, and I'm not at all surprised there are variant rules to change that total reset to a smaller fall. The game is already long enough! I quite liked this. More than Tichu? I'm not sure. Tichu feels like a really lean game compared to Guàn Dàn. The very large hands are clumsy and a little annoying, but on the other hand, navigating that initial 27-card mess is an interesting challenge. I'm looking forward to playing this more. #BoardGames #CardGames #ClimbingGames #GuànDàn
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@hamatti@mastodon.world · Jan 21, 2026
I've been wanting to explore zines for quite a while now but I don't consider myself very creative or artistically skilled so I've been putting it off for ages. This month, to distract myself from a rough start for the year, I finally made my first: Roll the Zine is an 8-page zine about board games! https://hamatti.org/posts/i-made-a-board-game-zine/ #zine #BoardGames
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@rebeccabanner@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 05, 2026
Lazy day, so played a solo game of Forest Shuffle Dartmoor. For today's challenge I chose no.11: plant grove, with the aim to have 12 plants in my forest, and the lowest level of difficulty, score of 200. I managed the goal, but winter came too early and my score only reached 199. Almost there! I do lose far more than I win. #boardgames
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@SitaDulip@gamepad.club · Mar 31, 2026
A Gentle Rain Solo-play, score of 15. Pretty happy with how this game turned out. Life has been ok. I've largely removed myself from a lot of things, at least for the time being while I go through this depression rut. But, music is going well, work is going well. I'm trying to clean up my living space, sell some games I don't play anymore. Slowly, but coming along. #AGentleRain #BoardGames
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@gregc@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 27, 2026
@ansiblegames@mastodon.social I'm beginning to learn that there's a good range of material on #Hive which contain #hints on #strategy and #tactics. And just reading the tip headings is enough to tell me I'm a pretty #useless #player. #boardgames
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@trib@aus.social · Mar 26, 2026
I haven’t played #ttrpg or #boardgames regularly for a long time. The group I played with as a younger person dissolved long ago as we moved, found long term relationships, and built careers. Recently, I’ve been feeling nostalgic for those pastimes, and pulled some things out of storage to refresh my relationship with them. I definitely want to find a way to play both RPGs and board games regularly. Now the challenge is to work out the shape and size of the community here in rural NSW, or to find a decent group online. The game hub/store in Bega closed down over a year ago as the number of people playing couldn’t sustain the rent on their shopfront. Keen for thoughts and ideas from anyone who is playing with some of the barriers I have.
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@EscapeVelo@nicecrew.digital · Mar 11, 2026
I picked up Hero Quest. #BoardGames
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@SitaDulip@gamepad.club · Mar 09, 2026
A Gentle Rain Solo-play, score of 6. Oof, rough game. I had a meeting with my psychiatrist today and it looks I'm going to _have_ to get a new psychologist soon. Not a bad thing, per se, but it does give me the feeling that I'm slipping backwards instead of moving forwards. #AGentleRain #BoardGames
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Mar 06, 2026
Playing #TTR with my partner, and she goes and takes the #train cards I need. Real world problems right? #bga #boardgames #tickettoride.
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@msaari@mementomori.social · Mar 05, 2026
This week has been good for board games. On Tuesday, I met a friend for a two-player game of 18GB, and yesterday we played another game of Indonesia. Two-player 18GB is a fine @18xx@fedigroups.social experience for two. We played the E-W setup this time, cutting the board north of York. This is a curious setup, as the generally congested area between Manchester and York now only has one company, Midland, while the rest of the companies are more on the south edge of the map. The game feels different. I was in a strong lead, but for some reason, my lead evaporated and in the end, I lost slightly. That was good, as we noticed we had missed the rusting of the 4+2 trains – I was the only one to have them, so had I won, it would've been with a strong asterisk. I want to play more 18GB, and playing the two-player game more would be welcome. Our game took under three hours, which was nice, considering my opponent was playing his first game and isn't the fastest player in our group (with my son, we've played a two-player game in under two hours). Indonesia was awesome. It was our first play with the third edition. It's a good improvement over the first edition and looks very nice. I would prefer the player bank sheets had the turn structure instead of the screens because we play with open money and don't use the screens. I think I'll do some smaller turn structure cards – those won't be needed for long, but for now are helpful. I also have ordered replacement tokens for the glass bead cities, I'm not a huge fan of those. Having ships in player colours is a nice improvement. I did pretty well. My business skills were questioned when I merged rubber plantations in a situation where I couldn't win the bidding. However, I got most of the money and opened up space for new stuff. I ended up owning the only spice plantations in the game and in the end got a personal shipping line. Thanks to that, I was safely second with 857 rupias. The winner was the only new player, who managed to get a monopoly on Siap Saji and made a ton of money with that and some shipping lines, even though he lost the shipping company. Creating one of those Siap Saji companies was a big hit for the shippers – Halmahera was a home for a large spice plantation, which was completely removed in the Siap Saji merger. On the final round, Tuukka shipped a lot of stuff and had the option of choosing between me and Ville. He saw that I had more money and gave all shipping to Ville. In the final scores, I was ahead of both and Tuukka lost to Ville by 33 rupias – definitely less than he gave to Ville in shipping on the last round. Had he picked me instead, he'd have been third instead of last. But I suppose you either win or lose, and it doesn't matter that much how much you lose... In any case, Indonesia is one of the most attractive games at the moment, and easily ranks as my favourite Splotter game. #boardgames
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@SitaDulip@gamepad.club · Mar 04, 2026
A Gentle Rain Solo-play, score of 8. Fairly slow day today, which is more than welcome at the moment. I hope everyone else is doing well today, despite all that is around. Try to create some happiness for you and around you. It's about all we can do sometimes. #AGentleRain #BoardGames
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@SitaDulip@gamepad.club · Mar 02, 2026
The Tower of the Ice Lich. The Ice Lich was reached but was not defeated. Result: Game Lost. I think my dice can fuck right off. You'd think it wouldn't be that hard to roll a 6+ on 2d6, but APPARENTLY NOT. #TheTowerOfTheIceLich #BoardGames
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@SitaDulip@gamepad.club · Mar 02, 2026
A Gentle Rain Solo-play, score of 16. Much stronger showing in the game today. There isn't much to say today, especially with everything going on. So.. play more games. That's my advice. #AGentleRain #BoardGames
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@HollyCo26588808__dup_31736@universeodon.com · Feb 28, 2026
Monopoly World Champion Reveals His Secrets for Always Beating Your Family, as the Game Celebrates 90 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/monopoly-world-champ-reveals-his-secrets-for-always-beating-your-family/ #goodnews #boardgames #fun #toys #diy #hobby #England
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@SitaDulip@gamepad.club · Feb 26, 2026
The Tower of the Ice Lich. The Lich was reached but was not defeated. Result: game lost. I am rolling some horrible dice rolls in this game. I cannot roll higher than a 6 (2d6) to save my life! #BoardGames #TheTowerOfTheIceLich
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@SitaDulip@gamepad.club · Feb 26, 2026
A Gentle Rain Solo-play, score of 11. A little better game this time around. It's dreary, rainy day. #AGentleRain #BoardGames
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@rebeccabanner@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 26, 2026
@alicemcalicepants@ohai.social having a games (k)night in a castle sounds like a fantastic idea! We have a castle in the next village over, though its more of a moated manor house, and very much in ruins. Also not open very often, so not much chance of playing boardgames there. #boardgames
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@SitaDulip@gamepad.club · Feb 25, 2026
The Tower of the Ice Lich. The Lich was reached but was not defeated. Result: game lost. It's been a long time since I've played this game, and it's always a nice, quick little romp through a card dungeon. I might have to add this back into my general rotations. #BoardGames #TheTowerOfTheIceLich
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@igdalahti@mementomori.social · Feb 24, 2026

IGDA Lahti March Meetup - Board Games

IGDA Lahti is not only about video games! Join us for evening of new card and board games!

Games to try out:

  • “Kalewala, The Tale of Sampo” -board game by Annukka Repo (Art) + Sami Styrman (Publisher) SamsaGames
  • “Defenders of Kaiju Island” - board game by Jussi Kenkkilä
  • “Pirate Fight” -card game by Otto Schmitz

Event is organized by IGDA Lahti in Fellmanni-talo. Doors open at 17:00. Event closes about 21:00. Notice that this event is on Saturday not on Friday like we usually have our events.

If you have questions email: lahti@igda.fi.

WHERE: Fellmanni-talo, Kirkkokatu 27, 15140 Lahti WHEN: Saturday 7th November, 17:00-21:00

Sign up now: https://pretix.eu/igdalahti/february2026/

#lahti #gamedev #boardgames #cardgames #peliala #igda #igdalahti #kalewalataleofsampo #defendersofkaijuisland #piratefight

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@SitaDulip@gamepad.club · Feb 22, 2026
A Gentle Rain Solo-play, score of 15. I haven't wanted to play this game in a while, which feels strange. Perhaps a side effect of just everything going on around me at the moment. I hope everyone is having a wonderful life, living boldly and loving freely. #AGentleRain #BoardGames
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