Stream: Escape the Dark Castle
Escape the Dark Castle is a tough choose-your-own-adventure. Pete and I had played it around six times before deciding to stream another playthrough to Twitch yesterday evening, with each attempt ending in...
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Magic musings: a non-player’s favourite cards
There has been a lot of Magic: The Gathering talk during our recent streams. It first started around a year ago when my stepson started playing Yu-Gi-Oh! with his school friends. He...
A tale of personality traits and tabletop adventures
On Monday, I considered why I don’t like strategy games. A recent personality assessment had revealed that my top theme was Strategic. This means I’m able to ‘see solutions before other people...
UK Games Expo 2023: a round-up
Pete and I went to our first UK Games Expo last year. Board games made it onto our radar during COVID-19. When we went to see friends and got talking about what...
Feeling board: starting our tabletop collection
Tabletop games were never really my thing before COVID-19. Other than Monopoly being pulled out of the cupboard by my stepson post-Christmas dinner every year, they weren’t something that regularly made an...
UK Games Expo 2022: a round-up
Tabletop games only made it onto my radar a couple of years ago. It started when my love of escape rooms encouraged me to back the Kickstarter campaign for Hack Forward in...