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As usual, just before Christmas, the boardGOATS Un-Christamas Dinner was accompanied by the anual voting for the GOAT Awards.  After food and festivities (including the now infamous Gamers’ crackers) the group voted for the two two awards:  the Golden GOAT for our favourite game played during the year and the “GOAT Poo” award for our least favourite.  Everyone had the usual three points to hand…

Today is the conclusion of the largest annual gathering of gamers in Europe.  The Internationale Spieltage is known to gamers worldwide simply as “SPIEL” or “Essen” and is a four day fair with lots of new releases scheduled to coincide with the event, just in time for Christmas sales.  This year, there have been lots of exciting new games available to be seen including Galactic Cruise, Brick Like…

Things were late starting, largely due to the delayed arrival of Blue and Pink with their copy of the “Feature Game“, the the shiny new Emberleaf.  It was Plum’s Special Birthday—there have already been two in the last few weeks (Jade and Pine, with Black a few months ago) and more to come in the not too distant future—so there was a bit of chat, card signing and some amazing chocolate cakes…

This week, Jade was proactive and quickly got a group together to play the “Feature Game“, which was to be Flip 7.  This is a quick, push-your-luck card game along the lines of Blackjack and recently won a Golden Geek award and received a nomination for the Spiel des Jahres.  The group have already played it a couple of times on a Tuesday, but we wanted to raise its profile and share it more…

As it was our twelfth birthday party, lots of people arrived early for pizza (or an amazing Mixed Grill in the case of Lime and some lovely veggie curry and fiery chilli for Pine), followed by GOAT cupcakes.  While everyone waited for food, arrivals from Essen were handed out, including Nucleum, Faraway and Flamme Rouge expansions; Let’s Go! To Japan and Cascadia mini expansions, and Die…