This Christmas I received two game books on my wishlist and acquired, in the world's oldest bookshop, one more Portuguese game for my collection. It turned out to be quite uninteresting, but I nevertheless added it, some images and the publisher to the BGG database. Conversely, our club's ...

This week we had two new players, Matt and Dan, who joined me to try out the Carcassonne expansion The Plague, a free give-away in spielbox issue 2010/6. It turned out to be a good expansion that changes the game substantially (meeples can move and get killed!) and gives ...

This year's tournament ended with Bill blowing away the competition (Dan, James, Keith) by over 40VP in the final, a game of Castles of Burgundy, chosen by the league's winner, James.

I wasn't able to make the last league game (Caylus) and Bill took the chance to ...

Three weeks ago we had our Christmas session. Less well attended than previous years, it was not less fun, with all the traditional bits: mince pies, David's picture quiz, Pete's miniature model game, my ...

This week the 2014 edition of our annual games tournament ended. In the league phase, 16 participants played 5 games in 4-player groups: Village, Caverna, Steam, Terra Mystica and Power Grid. Damen ended with 49 points, impressively winning 4 of the games and coming 2nd in the other. David H ...

As a member of a games club, I get to play many different games. Far too many, as I realised when David, the club’s organiser, suggested to use the h-index to measure how many games we tend to play regularly.

The h-index was proposed by a physicist in 2005 ...

It’s time to reminisce on the games and events of the past year, its highlights and let-downs, and to list some new year's resolutions ...

Last Saturday I attended my first ever games convention, the UK Games Expo. It was sufficiently easy to reach by public transportation to convince me to drag my lazy bum out of the house. But not before 9am, of course. I reached Birmingham International by train at 10am, and after ...

Going to the games night this week was again a last minute decision, this time because I was recovering from a bad cold. Feeling quite OK and eager to get my Euros back from Matt, as he wasn't able to bring my pre-ordered copy of Caravelas from Essen, I ...

This week I had to delay participation in the game's night to the last minute, due to a parent's evening. As I arrived I couldn't believe my eyes: the room was completely packed, with hardly any empty floor space between tables. I had never seen so many ...