Tea and Games

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The modular board is made of 4 square pieces. The board pieces are double-sided and the orientation when the 4 pieces are laid out is random. The donut pieces are wooden with chocolate design on one side and plain donut on the other side. Flipping your opponent's pieces is part of the game!

For National Donut Day today we'll be playing Bruno Cathala's Donuts, a 2 player abstract game🍩🎉

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A nice surprise for the holiday weekend!

Light Jazz, 7 piece mini-dice set.

Esme joined us for Beacon Patrol last weekend😆

First (rough) playthrough of the base game 4 Years To Mars. (There's 2 expansions included: Events, and Cutthroat.) This is what the central card market area and my play area looked like at the end of Year 2. After Year 1 the cards in the Research deck aren't laid out in the market. They're cheaper in years 2-4, but you draw blind from the top of the deck. And there's a 4 card limit for Research cards. But the Project cards are what it's all about. Money and icons! This is one of those games which is all about the icons.

Set a new high score in Moon Colony Bloodbath last weekend --- 31 surviving population!🎉 Got some great cards! Built and destroyed a couple of big buildings near the end, which is why I have so many people tokens left on my board. But I hung onto these 3 good cards all the way to the end!

Esme popped up to kibbitz during a recent game of Space Base.

Moon Colony Bloodbath. These 3 cards are an excellent combination. I got 6 people every time I farmed!

The Obsession Victorian Box arrived nearly two weeks ago. I was astonished at how well it was packed! I've loaded everything in (I have all the expansions, but haven't played all of them yet), but I still want to watch the official packing variation videos. I'll probably make some minor adjustments, whether I need to or not🤣

Double layer player boards, with inset player character card in the center of each. Wooden skill tokens, nice size and thickness. Metal coins, which are always so satisfying to handle in a game.

We actually had to delay fulfilling the Destiny card because we realized it would end the game, and we were still one card short of what we needed for the Mission. We completed the Mission and the Destiny on the same turn, Mission first.

The 3 promo cards I got, which we haven't yet played with, are on the left: Forest Shuffle Roseate Spoonbill/American Alligator card. This is for the original base game. The card in the middle is Creature Caravan Toadfolk Mayor. This is the second promo card I've gotten for Creature Caravan. The card on the right is for Seti: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Gateway to Mars promo card. I dithered about whether to get this card because, unlike the other promos, which are for games we play, and sometimes play often, we haven't yet played Seti. After punching the game's pieces, sorting out and inventorying everything, I felt overwhelmed and intimidated. And the irony is that even though I felt like there was So. Much. Stuff. I got a promo card, which, of course adds to All The Things🤣🤣🤣