The point Lion and Gazelle make, counts for most trading card games/living card games of course. The base rules stay in place, but if you haven’t played it for years and start playing again now, you will encounter a lot of new rules/concepts. We also had that problem with Netrunner. When we played it regularly it was a fantastic game but returning to the game a few times a year, playing against decks with new cards was a hassle. Having to constantly ask what a card does, takes the speed and fun out of the game…

Aight, let’s talk about last week, although I’m afraid it’ll be a little short because we only played three games and no new ones. I did do a thing I wanted to do for a while now and that was putting our two-player games together on adjacent shelves. When people come over and want to pick a game, we can just say that those shelves are two-player only* and that they can ignore them. It’s not perfect yet, technically, some Undaunted and games like Netrunner should be there, but it’s a start! It’s better than how it was before… which was spread out all over the place.
* There are also two games there (Flipover Frog and Kombo Klash!) that we think are perfect with just two players although the box says it’s up to four, we ignore that.

A two-player game we have played, just like last week, is Rival Cities. I wanted revenge after Heinze sneakily took away my victory by snatching a fourth ship while I only had one. So on Monday night, we played two games and… we both won! During the first game, I quickly managed to gain the fourth alliance card in the second round. In the second game, Heinze prevented me from winning on the prestige track at the very last moment, forcing the end scoring by counting up the points and that was in his favor. We accepted the draw and watched an episode of Ted Lasso (loving that show!).

On Friday, Heinze had a fun time hacking an Ikea LED panel at a friend’s place and I joined them later for dinner and game night. We played their super interesting copy of Escape from Colditz which belonged to an elderly gentleman who was a bit of a history fanatic. The box contains notes and information about the location and people who worked there. There are even scribbles and notes on the board of where flower beds used to be. It really was somebody’s project and I’m happy it wasn’t just thrown away after his passing. Escape from Colditz itself is not too brilliant but light a fun enough for a laidback game night after a week of hard work. Because it was Valentine’s Day, we ended the night by playing Love Letter! Not just any Love Letter, but the one we’ve made for all our wedding guests back in 2016. And I might be a little biased but I still think it looks better than the original.

The weekend was filled with non-gaming activities so that was it… but we’ll try to make up for that this week! 😀