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First Published: 2022 August 22

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This was supposed to come out Saturday, but life got in the way.

This past Saturday I spent more or less the entire day playing board games. It was really incredible.

The day began with a 6 hour DnD session.1 It was really fun to try an officially published encounter, for all that it lacked the organic feel of homebrew.

After that, I went to a board game night. There I found out that original rules Risk goes significantly faster. I assume this is due to the three following reasons:

  1. Starting territories are randomly assigned2

  2. There’s no initial reinforcement phase3

  3. The number of units gained from reinforcements grows quickly4

More or less, this meant that I had 15 soldiers5 to take over Australia. Once I did, I then gained 15 troops from eliminating someone, which spiraled out of control quickly. I think the fact that all of us played an aggressive game also helped.

After that, we played some Anomia, which is always fun.

I then learned how to play euchre. And, then it had been 12 hours of board games!

  1. interrupted briefly and constantly by a small child↩︎

  2. so you don’t have blocs↩︎

  3. so especially with 6 players, it’s just three tokens at a time↩︎

  4. 4,8,10,12,15,20,25...↩︎

  5. my allotment plus the 12 from a set↩︎

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