Gaming on a rainy day

It is a rainy day here in Chennai. Children have been asked to stay home by the Government of Tamil Nadu. So we decided to open Diamant which I had got from my German trip last month. We played 3 continuous  games of with Aarthi, Sushanth and Shreyasi making up the 4 players with me. [...]

Current hot favorite

Atlantic Star – This is the current hot favorite game at home. The game is superb and has some very different mechanics that provide fun and excitement. The game is for 2-6 players. We have only played 2 player versions but Aarthi wants to play it everyday. I got the game because it was available [...]

Giro Galoppo – Game review

I first came across this game in Bruno Faidutti’s site about kids games. Sushanth misses playing so many of the games in my collection and I wanted to get some more games that he could play.

Anyway Giro Galoppo is just that. A very good children’s game that scales well from 5 years. The moment I [...]

Gaming session with the kids

Shreyasi is down with fever. Sushanth was begging for a gaming session. So the four of us finally decided to have a family session. After the initial arguments about what games t play aarthi came up with the idea of drawing lots. So 3 games were suggested by Shreyasi and Sushanth. The six were written [...]

Just 1 play so far!

I was just going through the list of owned games that I maintain on BGG. as I was browsing through the list I found the following had been played just once.
Settlers of Catan – The card game – Now I really liked Settlers and thought the card game would be a good chance to play [...]

Train games ladder

Train games are fascinating and provide hours and hours of fun. There are so many different types of train games with varying degrees of complexity and fun. There are the kids games, the gateway games, the more complex but less of a gamer’s game and of course the hardcore gamer’s games. My personal experience with [...]

Marrakesh – A simple elegant kids game

HABA is a company that makes great kids games. I had read about Marrakesh and got it on my recent Germany trip. Opening the game I found excellent components with ‘meeple-ised’ camels and a modular board to be constructed with different pieces of the desert. Two pieces however were different, they being the Oasis and [...]

I am missing Essen!!!

Let me face it! I am missing Essen this year. There are reasons and people that have to blamed! I still can make it but the costs incurred have been so prohibitive becasue of other issues that I have to sacrifice that 1 day trip I could have made on the 19th of October. I [...]

Games played September 06

A low month of gaming. Was away from home for most of the month and gaming really suffered. But I did get a few new games played however.
Top games played with 3 plays each – China Moon, Coda & Puerto Rico.
China Moon was played for the first time and is a simple nice filler with [...]