Dave Kudzma
United States
Gumboro
Delaware
Muffins.
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Acquisitions:
I had read something recently about Blue Moon being out of print. I had put acquiring all the decks off for far too long. I managed to chase down everything I was missing on the cheap and a friend had duplicates he gave me for free. It will hit the table soon me thinks.
Plays:
Dominant Species - x1 with 3p - Finally dispelled my own negative illusions about 3p and scores were within 20 points. A tight, tense game, though DS remains VERY long.
The Castles of Burgundy - x1 with 3p - I'm not sure how I feel about the 3p game yet. I still really love the system, as long as it is.
Blue Moon City - x1 with 3p - Still an old favorite that plays out in 30 minutes.
Martian Dice - x1 with 4p - Still fun.
Star Trek [Deck Building Game]: The Next Generation - The Next Phase - x1 with 3p - I'm surprisingly still finding new tactics; ones that can help slow other, more fortunate players down, and this time granting me the win.
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Mike Banks
United States
Camp Hill
Pennsylvania
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Similarly, this is the third one of these I've found -- though, it has taken several years, not months.
Gotta love a Sackson!
Sal's west: $2
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Randall Bart
United States
Granada Hills
California
Red October
Earth is one of my favorite planets
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The ability to edit the games in my games played list
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Nick
United Kingdom
Unspecified
Unspecified
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When I think of absurd value for money this springs instantly to mind. At under $10 you get 38 games, 22 by Sackson himself, and most of them playable with dice, paper, cards, checkers, whatever.
Admittedly not every game is a winner, but there are some real gems in here covering all corners of the spectrum, and at around 26c per game it seems churlish to grumble.
Thoughts from the man Sackson himself too! So bargaintastic it's perilously close to theft...
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Lori
United States
Durham
North Carolina
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Fascinating as it is to know that we're Latvian dentists who enjoy geocaching and playing the ukelele, BGG is about games, and so are some of our microbadges. Matt's by far the most game-focused here, with 59% of his badges actually devoted to games. But more than half of us don't even have enough game badges to represent a Top Ten.
What's up with that? Do you have microbadges for your favorite games? If not, is it because you don't have stable favorites, because you like obscure games that have no microbadges, because the rest of the site is about games and you'd rather spend your microbadges on more personal stuff, or what?
I was also surprised to note that seven of us (three of whom have only one other game-related badge) have the Monopoly microbadge. Is there an underground Monopoly renaissance among the Meatballs? Is this the fallout from some prank? What gives?
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Our most commonly thrifted games are:
objectid | objectname | count
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320 | Scrabble | 724
3845 | Yahtzee Jr. | 496
181 | Risk | 388
11170 | Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie | 224
6795 | Battleball | 182
438 | Scotland Yard | 181
2453 | Blokus | 177
5 | Acquire | 159
590 | Mille Bornes | 152
1219 | The aMAZEing Labyrinth | 147
45 | Liars Dice | 143
28609 | The Game of Life: Twists Turns Edition | 142
20100 | Wits Wagers | 135
37196 | Sorry! Sliders | 134
1501 | Masterpiece | 132
8107 | Risk: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition | 122
1293 | Boggle | 121
822 | Carcassonne | 120
171 | Chess | 119
13 | The Settlers of Catan | 115
811 | Rummikub | 115
5985 | Miscellaneous Game Accessory | 112
699 | HeroQuest | 111
823 | Lord of the Rings | 100
2243 | Yahtzee | 99
140 | Pit | 98
41 | Cant Stop | 98
1917 | Stratego | 97
1275 | 221B Baker Street: The Master Detective Game | 96
98 | Axis Allies | 94
805 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Game (US) | 93
25669 | Qwirkle | 91
949 | Twixt | 91
10550 | Big Boggle | 89
5086 | Electronic Mall Madness | 88
16395 | Travel Blokus | 87
287 | Bazaar | 87
917 | Rack-O | 87
18291 | Unpublished Prototype | 82
1231 | Bausack | 80
1294 | Clue | 79
1295 | Pente | 78
74 | Apples to Apples | 75
483 | Diplomacy | 75
938 | Enchanted Forest | 75
463 | Magic: The Gathering | 75
1899 | 13 Dead End Drive | 74
333 | Waterworks | 74
1459 | Sharp Shooters | 74
4659 | Moods | 72
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Geekway to the West was Vastly Entertaining.
United States
University City
MO
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A classic book by Sid Sackson!
Ex-Library copy, has that mylar stuff covering the dust jacket, some staining from the tape holding the dust jacket on, and the name of the library cut off of the fly leaf. Still has the library pocket!
Sweetener: Card Games Around the World, another Sackson classic.
Since I'd like to mail these media mail, I'll only ship these to the lower 48 states. I once had a book take 2 months from Hawaii.
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Brian Bankler
United States
San Antonio
Texas
"I'm a soldier, I've killed people." "You are a doctor." "I've had bad days."
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One obvious number is "What's your G-index for games played?"
In other words, sort your games played from most to least and stop when the position # is > than games played.
We talked about that on Mikko and my blogs (as H-index).
Depending on how you group expansions, etc, my H-index for games played is 34 (meaning, I've played at least 34 games 34 times each). Obviously this hurts if you mainly play long games...
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Found a copy of this while looking through the puzzle books section. Appears to be from 1969. 50 cents
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The root of all evil... but you can call me cookie.
United States
Gainesville
Florida
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...with the unusable Dali calendar in hand I thought...I might actually need to use a calendar. So I cashed in on the ArtsCow deal to make my own custom gaming calendar and it's being printed now for me. 12 months of cool game images hand picked by me and only 8.99!!!
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Tom P
United Kingdom
We could've been anything that we wanted to be
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I like the idea of having nothing but a load of dice and a pack of cards and learning how to transform these simple tools into multiple gaming experiences.
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J Sinnett
United States
Philomath
Oregon
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$3, Browser's Bookstore (Corvallis, OR), edition pictured.
Now, I know, a used book store isn't the traditional definition of a thrift store. But bear with me, as I have an unusual experience to share about this *specific* store. Plus, come on, it's Sackson's book.
This particular store opened about, oh... I want to say ten years ago, but maybe more. It's pretty standard for a used book store in a lot of ways... Stacks of books, a little cramped in places, and just a hint of that twistiness in the extremities that makes it seem like the store might be bigger inside than out. The staff is nice, they give good credit for trade-ins, and they seem to have weird stuff now and then.
Now, the weirdness: For some strange reason, this store has an uncanny ability to, if I've been looking for a non-fiction book for more than about six months, suddenly have it somewhere easy to find when I walk in. Sometimes it's been there for a while and I've just overlooked it, sometimes it just came in that day, but... once that six-month search comes up, I can be nearly assured that if I go to this store, I'll find my book.
I first noticed this back in 2003, looking for a copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach. Six months of looking in all the used book stores and thrift stores in the area, walk into this one, suddenly it's right there on top of one of the shelves, plainly displayed. It's happened a few times after that, too... enough times for me to make an excuse to drop in that one *extra* time when a search is going on too long.
Well, I've been looking for a copy of Gamut of Games for six months now...
So I guess my next non-fic quest is going to be either Sackson's Card Games Around the World or Dr. Knizia's Dice Games Properly Explained. Let's see if the pattern holds up, in April.
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Jeph Stahl
Canada
Grimsby
Ontario
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I'm looking for a nice hardcover version of Gamut of Games by Sid Sackson.
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Mike Banks
United States
Camp Hill
Pennsylvania
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Speaking of Sackson, I also found a nice copy of this at a local library book sale -- in remarkable condition!
CH Library: $2
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Tony Ackroyd
United Kingdom
Brighton
E Sussex
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What Games Are There?
There are currently 57 different games you can play on Yucata. The most well known BGG-type ones are probably:
Balloon Cup
Campaign Manager 2008
Carcassonne H&G
Famiglia
Fearsome Floors
Hey, that's my fish
Pompeii
Roll through the Ages
Saint Petersburg
Stone Age
Thurn and Taxis
Yspahan
There are new games being slowly added - Famiglia was just added a week ago.
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All Hail Knucklebeard!
Australia
Wodonga
Victoria
BorderCon 101 - Bring the fun, bring a smile, grab a game from the pile. Place the Meeple, play a card, swing your sword and kill the guard! So make the trip, don't be docile, look for details on my profile!
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Games I'd love to See and Play at BorderCon 2011
Games I will be bringing to BorderCon 2011
Other Ludicrous Comments
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Mike Mathews
United States
Ruther Glen
Virginia
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Driving through Maryland on my way home from a trip, I passed a GW so of course I stopped. The game section was pretty weak, but I found some great books, including this...hardcover, first edition with dustjacket...great condition!!!
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Mike Banks
United States
Camp Hill
Pennsylvania
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A couple of days later, I found this one at a book sale -- nice shape, but the slip cover is pretty faded.
CH Book Sale: $2
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Ubergeek
United States
Camas
Washington
Be Happy in your Game!
I spent 100 Geek Gold and all I got was this lousy overtext message!
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I've often used GamesSurplus to order German games that haven't been released in the US yet. For Euro's, they're as price competitive as anyone. They don't have free shipping but they do have a list of games which if purchased let your entire order ship free. They only seem to update their site once a week (very last Saturday night or early Sunday morning) unless a huge shipment comes in for them. I've only had one problem with them once on a double billing issue that they resolved promptly and courteously.
Link: https://www.gamesurplus.com/index.php
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Nick Wright
Scotland
Edinburgh
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As last time, there will be a large and varied selection of games from our collections and other sources, including some new ones.
However, if there are any games released at or since Essen 2010, that you would particularly like to play, please PM me, and we'll see what we can do...
See this Geeklist for a selection of games that will be New to Unplugged II.
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GMOFreePortland.com
United States
Happy Valley
Oregon
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Haven't had much time or money to thrift lately. Did have a $10 credit to the GW though. So we walked over this evening to see if we could make use of it. I found this classic book that I've heard mentioned here before. $2.99 at 82nd GW.
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This is not about me, but about my girlfriend.
Look in this here list and every game there is something she's hated before she liked it.
I have a theory. Gamers / boardgamegeeks can tell faster if they like a game. Maybe 1-3 games. Non-gamers have a higher Game Affinity Measurement Equilibrium - G.A.M.E.® (oh yeah, see what I did there?) and have to play games more before they can really know if they really like it or not.
Of course, this is on average. There are those among the washed non-BGG masses that are of above average G.A.M.E. and can properly control their boardgaming emotions enough to see beyond bad luck and a rough game session. You can tell them apart from the others because even though they lost, they want to play that again. Or maybe they're just competitive.
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Rob Kelley
United States
Tucson
Arizona
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