Yes, Heinze and I do both play Animal Crossing, but no, we certainly haven’t given up on board gaming. I think Animal Crossing is a fun game, but not something I would want to play hours and hours every day, Tom Nook is going to have to wait a while for me to pay my debt. 😉

Something we did play this weekend that took about three or four hours was Mansions of Madness!  It was an intense scenario and our escape was burned… right before our eyes and we lost the scenario. But what an experience that was, we’ve had loads of fun and can’t wait to try the scenario again now that we know what to expect. The only thing we’re trying to decide is whether to play with just two investigators or scale it up to two investigators per player.

We also played the Devil’s Kitchen scenario of Chronicles of Crime last night and we really enjoyed it. At one point we thought we knew the solution until we learned about one small detail and that changed everything! It was great our hypothesis turned out to be correct and we managed to answer all the questions.

With no actual gaming nights planned or legacy/campaign games for us to continue, we do get a chance to play some games we otherwise would have played very often, I’m really curious which games we’ll play this coming week. We’ll often name five or six titles and if one of us doesn’t have a preference, we let a die decide which game we’re going to play, so I guess you’ll read next week what the die decided!

We were watching “Ready Player One!” this weekend and the movie is all about finding hidden things and that led to a discussion that with board games there is little room for creativity. And that means that nowadays if there’s something hidden in a board game, it’s under the inlay or there’s a hidden bottom in the box. The very first time we encountered it, it was really cool, but by now the novelty has worn off a little, for us at least. 😉

Last week, we continued our adventure in Gloomhaven and this weekend was dedicated to games that take a little more time to play!

On Saturday we gathered all our grunge looking cars and terrain for a game of Gaslands! Jeroen who we only knew via Instagram/Twitter even drove all the way to our house to join the game and Mariecke, who drew this amazing guest comic, played her first game of Gaslands… and won! Her buggy sprinted off while her other car just caused mayhem and destruction to all of the other cars, effectively.

On Sunday we continued puzzling our way through The Wilson Wolfe Affair. We were kind of overwhelmed the first time we opened the box and although we did solve some puzzles (we think), we didn’t have a clear overlapping picture. This time we’ve laid quite a groundwork. We made a timeline, made a document about all the involved characters and their roles, and gathered all the clues we found that might turn out to be useful for other puzzles. We also ended with a few leads that we want to investigate the next time we play – so far it’s been a really fun experience and I hope we manage to keep cracking puzzles without needing to use any hints.