Back home in Chennai

Got back home yesterday after 3 weeks down under in Australia and New Zealand. Mohan in Mebourne thought he should buy me a game and I decided on Thurn & Taxis. He also gave me Quicksand that he did not like. Actually he had not even played a single game of it. But I thought [...]

Gaming in Oz

The last week or so has been great in Australia. We managed to get some good gaming done though I was a bit handicapped becos I only had about 3 games with me. The new game I played was Reiner Knizia’s Buy Low Sell High a game about stock market trading. I really liked the [...]

Shopping for games in Auckland

Have been in Auckland the last week or so. Was just browsing through the Whitcoulls store on queen st in the city. And I found Settlers, Seafarers, Carcassonne, Transamerica, Tikal, Age of Mythology, Doom, Nexus Ops, Roborally, Ricochet Robot and a few more that I cannot remember. I was pleasantly surprised and happy to come [...]

Ticket to Ride – Marklin Edition game review

We got TTR-Marklin today and immediately opened and set up a 4 player game. A preliminary reding of the rules promised a very good game and the experience was really worth it.
I have played all the 3 games and I feel that TTR-Marklin is the best of the three. This retains most of the tension [...]

Games played July 06

I look forward to the 1st of every month to chronicle my last month’s gaming activities. So here they are.
Bohnanza – Tops the list with 9 plays. I got the game last year and have been playing only 2 player games with Aarthi. Then sometime last December Shreyasi learnt the game and really liked it. [...]