ScottVee Gaming

We finally got to play Diced Veggies at a hotel room.  Sadly, while the preview photos of the room showed a long desk, there was only one chair, so there was no comfortable place to try a new game. Boy, this does not work on a bed.  The main gimmick is to set up the 35 dice in the square frame and trim off some dice with the cardboard cleaver.   You start with two recipe cards and a booster card.  Basically, each turn you try to carve out some dice you need from the grid of dice and match the colors to the colors in one of your recipe cards.  If you can match the numbers or sums on a booster card, you score those points too.  As I recall, at the end of a turn there is a max of two recipe cards, two booster card, and 8 dice that you can keep.  The rest have to be discarded.  The dice go back into the rectangular frame.  And when you complete a recipe, those dice also go back into the grid.  Each card scores around 4-5 points. Each pl...

This is a card game version of Boop, which we reviewed here . We had vague recollections that the original Boop was cute but confusing.  It was hard to visualize the moves when each cat or kitten played booped the tiles around it. Boop Shuffle perfectly catches that same confusing feel in a tiny deck of cards.  It is still for two players only.  There are two little rolled up strips that you can put down at right angles to represent the edges of a 6x6 game board.  The original Boop was much better in this respect, with the cute "turn the box into a bed" motif. Here, you still try to get three kittens/cats in a row to promote the kittens to cats, thought it's done in an obtuse way by putting the promoted cats into the discard pile.  So they will be available the next time the discard pile is shuffled into a new draw pile.  It was a bit disappointing just drawing a card and playing it, even if it's the other player's cat. There are a few variant cats, and one...

A few more quick finds: We stopped at B&N last weekend with some leftover birthday gift cards and found a few small games that looked like they were worth trying.  We also made mental notes on a few larger games, only to watch videos and find they were way more complex than we wanted.  I'm not going to stand there in the store and look for reasons not to buy, or pester them with second-hand tales of sales from halfway around the country.  If I can't remember the game by the time I get home, then it didn't make much of an impression. These days, to trigger the "buy" impulse, a game needs to sound like it has a quick setup, only a few pages of rules, and hopefully some new game mechanic that hasn't been done to death, although cute cats and dogs will score big points. Anyway, we found Boop Shuffle and Diced Veggie.  Boop Shuffle was obviously a card game version of Boop, which we already reviewed and found both cute and perplexing. Diced Veggies boasted a ga...