6/23/2023 0 Comments Last bastion bgg![]() ![]() This is the sort of game you play multiple times in an attempt to beat it – good luck with that! In The Mind: Extreme, not only are there two piles, one going up and one going down but some rounds are placed face down so you have nothing but your intuition to go on. Wow – is this game frustrating (in the best possible way!) We managed to get to level six on our first attempt and subsequent games we came nowhere close! In the original The Mind, players have cards numbered between 1 and 100 and have to place them in ascending numerical order without talking, just placing when they feel it’s the right time. However, we had a few games of The Mind: Extreme at the hotel on Saturday night. While we obviously came home with a lot of games, we haven’t had a chance to play through many yet. This year included booths from Indonesia, Iran and Tawain to name a few. It’s also great to see games from all over the world. This was our seventh year and each year we watch it grow bigger. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, no, Christmas is months away! It’s Internationale Spieltage aka Essen or Spiel, the biggest gaming convention in the world. Summary: Finding out about the kindness of strangers and playing the Mind: Extreme We also played (and picked up) a handful of games from smaller publishers, which was so fun! Super sad it’s over but we cannot wait to play all of these new games. Definitely our favorite game of the spiel. Caires theonetar), demoing “ Letter Jam” with the one-and-only Paul Grogan, and playing a game of “ Glen More II” at the VIP demoing table, which was EXCELLENT by the way. This year some highlights for me included finally meeting T. Monique shares another highlight of hers, meeting her favorite board game designer, Vital Lacerda at Essen Spiel 2019 We may not speak the same language but we all share one thing, which is a love for board games. ![]() The thing that I really love about this particular convention is that we are always able to meet gamers from all around the world. This was our third time attending Essen Spiel but it was a special experience for us since it was our first time going as content creators! Even if it felt different, the magic of the spiel was still very much so present. Summary: Glen Moore II, the universality of board gaming across cultures, and meeting Vital Lacerda You’re a part of what makes this hobby so much fun for me. If you happen to see me at SPIEL or any other convention, please say hello. SPIEL gives me a chance to play it out on a global scale. For me games have always been about the people around the table. Some folks even sought me out, knowing I was on the hunt! I met into people I never would have met otherwise, hugged folks hailing from Tokyo and Tehran, and doubled back to friends that I’d seen only ten minutes earlier just so I could pass on a hello from 3,500 miles away. The answers left me with some “ok, so how do I find THIS person?” but I did my best to seek everyone out, inform them of the mission and send a worthy selfie back to my pals. This year I had a few free hours so I asked folks back home who they wanted me to give a hello to. My highlight of the fair has never been a game title in particular, but rather the people I run into throughout the week. Rand handing off a custom Passtally shirt to the designer, Masaki Suga, as part of his cycle of greetings. Summary: Hosting a meetup, going to the Spiel des Jahres party, and streaming Caylus 1303 It’s an amazing, interactive game that provides a fun narrative, a creative space and just an absolutely funny time around the table, and definitely the game of the convention for me! For example, I might have to pantomime how I died, or draw on someone’s back the murder weapon, or communicate who killed me by mouthing just one word. They’re doing this by asking questions but having to play cards that restrict the ghost on how to deliver the information. In this game, you have one ghost (me) who died and the rest of the crew must figure out the classic questions: who killed you, with what, how you died, what was the motive, and where did it take place. Me, Ella ( and Theo ( got to be on the official Spiel livestream and one of the best experiences I had was live-streaming with Vince from Lucky Duck Games, playing their new game Paranormal Detectives. Playing Paranormal Detectives on the official Essen Spiel livestreamįor me, one of the highlights was that I got to spend my first Spiel with my newly-formed podcast, Variable Player Power ( on Twitter/Instagram/facebook). ![]()
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