Nerd NYC Board Game Night this Friday

Rym

Anyone else coming to the nerdnyc boardgame night this Friday?

These things are fairly awesome.

Matt

Boardgame night is the shit. Wasn't sure if I would be able to make this one but I'm in now. I'll be attending Walkabout NYC with some friends earlier that day as part of Internet Week. It's basically a big open house for a lot of NYC-based tech companies and startups, so my love for viewing what I affectionately call "office porn" on Lifehacker has stepped up into real world office voyeurism.

Saw your post on NerdNYC and I'd be up for playing Tempus. Checked it out on bgg and it looks pretty cool. They have a pdf of the rules which don't seem too long, so I'll give them a read at some point in the next two days (I come prepared). I just picked up Pandemic last weekend and got two enjoyable rounds in, so I'll be packing that as well in case anyone wants to play.

ProfPangloss

Oshit, that's this Friday? Dammit, family dinner-thing I have to be at...

Rym

I'm bringing TEMPVS and probably planning on playing that and Dominion to the exclusion of all else.

Matt

Had a great time at boardgame night as usual. Played Chicago Express for the first time, which was my introduction to railroad games (surprising given how many of them there are), and thought it was great. I think it's something the wife may actually even enjoy as it uses all of her favorite game mechanics.

For the record I need to agree with Scott that Hoity Toity is just the world's longest game of rock-paper-scissors. I would not be sad if I never had to play that one again. The fun of that game wore off about halfway through when we ran out of ways to make fun of the game's name, and the fact that all players start in a smoking parlor.

I also found out I was playing the "reshuffling of the disease discard pile" rule wrong in Pandemic, which explains why the game was not as hard as I thought. We played it with the proper rules and got our asses stomped.