...But first, coffee (with Jen)

Myself and my husband love breaking out a board game on quiet evenings at home.  Sometimes the weather is bad, while other times we are looking for something different to break up the mundane. Either way, we always have a blast and we have built up quite the collection over the years.  This post will focus on the newest game to our collection. (This post contains affiliated links.  Meaning that I may college a share of the sales or other compensation from the Amazon links on this page.) For my birthday this year hubby bought me my favorite game to date - Ticket to Ride Europe !  We started playing this game, and a few others, at a local gaming hangout called Doughnuts & Dragons (now closed). They had a wide assortment of games ranging from 2-6 (or 8?) players and the game boxes were color coded with stickers so you could easily pick out a game to play based on how many people were in your party.  This was the second of this type of hangout in the city...

This game is fantastic!  Build your castles, extend your roads and claim farm land by placing your meeples on the board.  This is a point building game. Through picking up and placing random tiles the point of this game is to build up the most points.  There are a set number of points per connected road tile, per castle tile, for the number of castles that connect to your farmer meeple, and there are shields on some castle tiles to add more points to the completed castle point count.  This can either be a fun game among family/friends, or an all out war if you intrude on the points that a team member is building for themselves. We typically try to play a nice and fair game, but sometimes one of us makes a menacing move just to mess with the other persons plans (just for giggles lol). Since you build the game board by picking up tiles at random, this is a game that is never the same twice.  And, there are so many expansions to the original game that you real...

So, we have established that myself and my hubby watch TableTop on YouTube, and that we love playing board games.  Well, have you heard of the Tiny Epic games?  No, then you are missing out! The Tiny Epic series are great for short play times and for small spaces (easy to travel).  These are dice rolling games and the dice are tossed into the cover of the game box. (This post contains affiliated links.  Meaning that I may college a share of the sales or other compensation from the Amazon links on this page.)   Tiny Epic Galaxies is the first of this gaming line that we picked up. It was a birthday gift for my hubby because he was really interested in playing this game after seeing it explained by Wil Wheaton on TableTop in SE4 . You gain and spend energy & culture to gain more spaceships & gain planets to gather points to win the game.  Seems a little complicated, but once you have one run through your able to grasp how the game plays out. ...