Board Game Night
Steven Lombardi edited this page Nov 20, 2019
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This wiki page is for suggestions for Clojure/conj 2019 Board Game Night.
- When: Wednesday, November 20, 7:00-10:00 pm
- Where: Durham Convention Center, Ballroom A-B
- Cognitect's Game Shelf
- See a game on our list you want to learn? Let us know so we can find a teacher!
- See a game on our list you want to teach? Sign up and we'll make sure the game is there for you.
- And feel free to bring a game!
- Hosted by:
- Player Count:
- Description: (boardgamegeek.com link please)
- Interest:
- Hosted by: Rich Hickey
- Player Count: 4
- Description: AuZtralia Rails, Cthulhu, zombies, farming, military - we will be playing co-op. How to play video, and Teach and play through video
- Interest: Ikuru Kyogoku, Robin Kageyama, Nick Wright, Ram Tripathi
- Hosted by: Stuart Halloway
- Player Count: 3 (4 takes too long)
- Description: Spirit Island Co-op, save the island from the colonizers. Please sign up only if you have played before or have time to read the rulebook, as we discovered last year it takes too long to both teach and play. If not enough sign up, I will dump this entry and host a different game.
- Interest: Sepehr Ansaripour, Thomas Karras
- Hosted by: Alex Miller (fair warning, I've only played it a couple times!)
- Player Count: up to 5
- Description: Wingspan Birds! Build your flock...
- Interest: Robert Schanafelt, Tiago Luchini, Stella Clemens, Stephen Cagle, Abdullah Badahdah
- Hosted by: Mark Bastian
- Player Count: 6-8
- Description: Decrypto. This is a party game along the lines of Codenames in which an "Encryptor" tries to send secret codes to their team members. I will be explaining the rules but I highly recommend watching this 3 minute summary beforehand or even this 12 minute video if you have time.
- Interest: Kay Percival, Nick Wright, Darren Fix, David Iba, Andrew Gwozdz, Aaron Iba
- Hosted by: Jaret Binford
- Player Count: 4
- Description: Call to Adventure. Call to Adventure features a unique "rune rolling" system for resolving challenges, a point-based system that encourages storytelling, and over 150 unique cards. Players begin each game with an origin card that provides their backstory as well as two "starter" abilities. Each round they may either acquire trait cards from the board or face a challenge. Challenges each have two possible paths a player can choose from.
- Interest:
- Hosted by: Steven Lombardi (tentatively, it's the only one I recognized on the list)
- Player Count: 1 - 5
- Description: Terraforming Mars. A game of economic strategy.
- Interest: