Game Hunting: On Board Gaming

We had some time today in between making new copies of house keys and taking Mango the Cat to the vet, and halfway between A and B was On Board Gaming.  So we stopped by to see what was new.

There was a big Magic: the Gathering game going on, filling two long tables.  And a few other people were milling around.  

We were amused by how many cat-themed games had appeared on the shelves compared to our last visit.  We saw Boop the Halls -- see my blog post about that series.  There was a new Cat Fluxx game -- how did it take them 20 years to think up a cat-fancy version of that one?  About eight other other cat games caught our eyes (House of Cats, etc), but most looked to be more complex or full of tiny parts than what we enjoy playing.  Not counting the Exploding Kittens or Kittens in a Blender -- what is WRONG with those people?  That's not funny.

We saw a board game tie-in to the recent animated film Flow, which, if you're an animal lover and haven't seen it, it's a classic: no words, just an unlikely group of animals on an adventure.  Brilliant.  It claimed to be a cooperative game where you try to help the unlikely group of animals get to the center of the board, which sounds like a perfect framing to match the film.

The gamer in front of us at the register was buying a new hardbound "Multiverse RPG" book, which sounded interesting. 

We ended up grabbing Cat Fluxx, Flow, Mountain Goats and My Shelfie (there was a cat on the cover, and we keep trying to reorganize our own shelves...)   $100.  But we enjoy trying out new things, and seeing how the rules fit together.  And we have a pretty good downstream set of people or groups to donate to, for the games that don't feel like keepers.

Not exactly cat-related, but ... how is there an entire shelf of CATan variations and expansions?  Ticket to Ride has also grown wildly.  We finally got the basic game about two weeks ago, we just haven't had a chance to play it yet. 

Meow. 

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