December Meetup Roundup

Happy New Year! The San Marcos Board Gamers closed the year out in style at our favorite public library, with a good-sized crowd and a lot of games old and new.

Carcassonne was first on the docket, and a popular choice with two people bringing copies. I brought mine because I hadn’t played it in a while and I was reminded of how much I love it by Wil Wheaton’s recent Tabletop episode, but I forgot to ask if the second copy came for the same reason. In any case, the game was as always easy to teach and fun for players of all ages.

Other games played at the December meetup included Jungle Speed, Love Letter, Bears!, and Dungeonquest. However, the hits of the afternoon had to be Quelf and Perpetual Commotion.

Quelf is silly even for a party game, and the players were merrily barking at each other like drill sergeants and acting out life as a dog. I was also rather taken with Perpetual Commotion, which is a fast-moving multiplayer version of solitaire that up to eight people can play at once. There’s so much going on at once that the game becomes both challenging and highly interactive.

All and all, it was a good outing, and everyone is looking forward to playing more in 2014. Our next library meetup is Sunday, January 26 at 1:00 p.m. — see you there!

Archived from the San Marcos Board Gamers website.