First plays: Riff Raff....

Late yesterday night we unboxed and played Riff Raff, a clever dexterity game of balance on a ship amidst the stormy sea.  To say the game is a riot might be a bit of an understatement.  And through some simple but clever use of cards to bid for turn order and location, this game feels different enough from every other balancing act out there.


Here is the setting up:

And here is yours truly losing horribly (keep in mind in this game, if you catch the pieces they don't count against you):

Playing in the sand....

Thanks to Michaela for the pic...  Click to embiggen.

Have your game and eat it, too... Part 2!

Two of my absolute favourite things are board games and pastries.  So I've posted some really cool board game cupcakes previously. 

How about birthday cakes?  Here's some of my favourites from a user-made list on BGG.  Delicious.

Rumis (Blokus 3-d)!

Settlers!

'Gric!

Carc!

Acquire!

Dominion!

Tichu!

Have your game and eat it, too...

In what seems like an ongoing series of post about games and eating (see the chocolate monopoly post), here's a few pics from a fun little post with a hundred game cupcakes. Ah, eating and gaming... two of my all-time favourite activities.

(Thanks to my sister and cousin for pointing this one out.)

Oh, the joys of Photoshop...

Thanks to my sister for pointing out this awesome post. My personal favourites: the Settlers remake and the Diplomacy remake at the bottom of the list. Both very appropriate.

Happy 60th, Candy Land....

This was brought to my attention from one of my favourite gay bloggers, Joe My God...
The enormous Candy Land game was set up on Lombard Street, a twisty street in San Francisco. So cool! More photos and info can be seen here.