We played Cartographers this week as we babbled on for a bit too long without any thought as to what we’d play.
We played it previously as a group about 2 years ago, so it was nice to revisit it finally. A simple flip-and-write game with some element of interfering with other players (namely the player to your left). A nice fun puzzle to share with the other players!
Last week saw the arrival of a kickstarter game I backed a couple of years ago, Mercurial!
As a result, I’ve seen 3 plays of this in the last week; one solo, one 2-player, and one 4-player.
Very much enjoying this title so far! The designer has opted to use iconography on the cards instead of any words. Whilst this slows the initial couple of plays down, you soon learn the language it was designed with and you can begin to intuit cards quite quickly.
Something I forsee possibly being an issue for some people is the lack of player interaction. It falls into the same space as Wingspan in that the only interaction one can really have is drafting a card that another player wanted.
The art is beautiful, vibrant, evocative, and most of the time you feel like you are manipulating the elements as you flip and convert your dice to your needs!
Everyone from my group was available this week! So naturally this meant that we went the cinema and watched Barbie! Not quite games night, but a good time nonetheless!
It was also my birthday last week, so the group gifted me a copy of Unmatched: Cobble and Fog which I look forwards to trying with my partner!
We also visited our FLGS and grabbed Exit: The Pharaoh’s Tomb which, aside from one frustrating puzzle, was a good time!
A smaller, more focused group this week! This meant Gloomhaven: JOTL again! My partner and I got engaged earlier in the week, so we chatted too much to finish it in one session - so our friends came back on Saturday to finish it off!
It didn’t actually take us too long to finish the encounter, so we played a game of Mondo. This is a ridiculous real-time tile laying game in which you’re trying to ‘close out’ biomes on your board. Always good fun and super accessible!