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• The Boardgames Thread / Board games

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 10 months

  

  Hello Oliver, hello Ben. I spent all night playing Cold v. Insomnia and am not up for games this lunchtime, sorry. Gutted.

• The Boardgames Thread / Board games

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Is Set a game?

  It is, good for loud environments, quiet times or people who don't have much small talk to toss around. Also good for its more intended audience, being people who like spotting patterns. Twelve cards on the table, each with four attributes: the number, shape, colour and shading of their symbols. When you see three cards that on each attribute are all the same or all different, you claim them as a set. Replenish form the deck and play til they're all gone. Most sets wins.

  You can see it here, though it is much beautifuller in real life.

  Tuesday lunchtime?

  Works for me.

• Stuck Seat Post

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Got an alloy post out of a steel frame by cutting the top off and gently peeling it from the inside with a wooden mallet and screwdriver, plus a little WD40. Took about two hours.

  Impossible to tell whether several days soaking in diesel prior made much difference, but I'm inclined to think it didn't.

• The Boardgames Thread / Board games

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 11 months

  

  And thus was no advance made, but a few rounds of Set with unwitting office-mates led nicely on to a productive and beerless afternoon.

• The Boardgames Thread / Board games

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Any advance on 1230 at the Fitzroy Tavern? Or Mabel's?

• The Boardgames Thread / Board games

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Not really, he was told by a fellow party member to go downstairs into a basement. 'Just go down, Groll. It is safe.' He was then eviscerated by the orcs hiding to the left and right of the door. Relations between the two players were never quite the same again. :)

  (Only kidding--they're good friends.)

  Sorry I couldn't make it today, Ben. Is Friday lunchtime good for anyone (except for Dan, that is)?

  Gruesome, I only hope there was some honour attached.

  Friday would be fine.

• The Boardgames Thread / Board games

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Welcome. Groll was the name of an FRP character of a friend of mine who died under suspicious circumstances

  Thank you. That one was faked with an invisibility cloak, iirc.

  I like the sound of this FttL - I'm based in Bloomsbury and pretty flexible timing-wise.

• Current Projects chat and miscellany

  in Current Projects • 13 years, 11 months

  

  This is what I am about to start riding. The frame is a Gitane, 1970s or 1984/5 'retro' as far as I can tell. Rim tape + lockring, tighten it all up and away. With the luck reserved for beginners I appear to have a straight chainline :D
  
  

• Welcome

  in General • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Thanks! Will dispell hopes/fears at South beers...

• The Boardgames Thread / Board games

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Hello there. I'd be game for the next meet - currently trying to get board games back into my life. My preferences are:

  For something quick, Abalone, Boggle and Bluff are all good. With a bit more time, the good-looking German ones, Elfenland and Through the Desert (and Carcassone and Catan). And Scrabble played with house rules. Way back in the day we used to love Wildlife Adventures.

  For card games, cribbage as a kid, 'dai' at secondary school and proper rummy (a la Rummikub) more recently. And Sechs Nimmt.

  Did anyone play Mertwig's Maze? Like the Mysterious Cities of Gold cartoon, I remember it being amazing, but I was rather young and don't dare revisit it.