Gaming

While I would love to start listing all of the 360 games I have played, thats a wee bit dull so instead I’m going to write about the more classical types of games we get up to at home. We have recently started to branch out from the standard ‘snakes and ladders’ style games and are now delving deep into the murky world of slightly more complex boardgames, RPG’s and even *GASP* a recent tabletop battle game.

I’m going to list a few of the ones we have and give a brief overview of the game depending on how much we liked it. Most of the time ‘we’ would be myself, my ever loving better half and our seven eight holy spit NINE! year old daughter. I also have to admit a small degree of ‘I like the sound of that myself’ when buying these games so a few *cough*Ravenloft*cough* are nothing more than me wanting a game and using a thin excuse for me buying it. Others are bought because they sounded like good presents and fun for everyone to play. I would love to think we are a marginally intelligent family but while the little un is interested in horror, we still need to keep games to a simple level. Warhammer 40k will be in a few years time. (Fingers crosses)

Name: Kids of Carcassonne

Year: 2009

Type: Tile placement

Description: First up, the one that started a lot of it off, the classy Kids of Carcassonne

Name: Zooloretto

Year: 2007

Type: Set collection

Description: How can we solve the declining numbers of pandas? Simple. Buy Zooloretto....

Name: Fuzzy Heroes

Year: 1992

Type: Tabletop battle

Description: Go find a few toys to knock the stuffing out of with Fuzzy heroes

Name: Toon

Year: 1984

Type: RPG

Description: Cartoon violence in pen and paper form. It's Toon

Name: Kill Dr Lucky

Year: 2006

Type: Murder mystery

Description: Its a lazy description but Kill Dr Lucky is best described as Cluedo reversed.

Name: Cluedo: Discover the Secrets

Year: 2008

Type: Murder mystery

Description: Cluedo with some extra cards, weapons and a timer. Cluedo: Discover the Secrets isn't just Cluedo with a bigger box.

***Coming soon*** (when I get myself in gear and write them up)

Bohnanza. Bean collecting in a card game.
Cluedo. The original.
Nuns on the run. Nothing to do with the film.
Fluxx. Short, sharp and slightly rude when we play it.
Monty Python Fluxx. Anyone got a herring?
Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot. Killa bunny is a coming, Killa bunny on his way.
Forbidden Island. If only it was Forbidden Planet.
Thats life. Weird German game about fate. Highly entertaining.
Ravenloft. Giant zombie dragons are go.
Magic the Gathering. My cards are probably older than Merlin… Well Paul Daniel at least.