Ten Tips for Teaching Board Games from the Euro Board Game Blog.
Possibly the two most important rules: start at the objective, and be patient.
Loved the new games you discovered at FlaMinGoCon? Or that you see pictured here or on our Facebook page?
Here are some recommendations on where you can go buy your own. Do us a favor, TELL the folks at the store you are buying a game from them because you went to FlaMinGoCon or saw the game on the FlaMinGoCon website. :-) Thanks.
If you need instant gratification:
In Pompano Beach, you can find GXE Games, the closest store to West Palm Beach that focuses primarily on games.
The comic book store Past Present Future on Military Trail in WPB sells quite a few popular games.
Tates Comics, in Lauderhill down in Broward County and now in Boynton Beach near the mall, also carries games.
Barnes and Noble carries quite a few games too. But if you can hit up one of these local businesses, that'd be nicer, right?
If you're looking for much better prices, or really popular games (like Splendor and Camel Up), or new releases, online shopping is the way to go. Of course, there's Amazon. But the best option, often for price and definitely for supporting a smaller business, is a website called CoolStuffInc.com.
Cool Stuff Games are their Brick-and-mortar stores in Maitland, Winter Park, Jacksonville, and Hollywood.
Tell them Phil Mingo sent ya'!
Obviously there were a LOT of winners at the January 24th event, as each game played had at least one winner. However let's highlight the special winners of our Play To Win Games and Tournaments.
Congratulations to Gavin (Night of the Octopus), Gen (Resistance), Elisabeth (Jungle Speed) and Lynne (RoboRally) for trying out new games and entering the drawings to win these games. We plan to have more Play To Win opportunities at the next con, and hopefully some brand spanking new releases if we are lucky!
And on to our tourneys...
The RoboRally tournament had 4 entrants, so was a one-game affair. Brave Katie & Glenn had just learned the game in the morning. Phil stated his attitude was "Someone has to come in last." Kevin swept to victory in his favorite game, and treasures his FlaMinGoCon trophy that he can put a candle in -- or put a pink rubber ducky in.
Our Splendor Tournament had 16 entrants, which meant 4 games for the first round of the single elimination, then the 4 winners continuing to the second round. Adam (with hand to head in photo) emerged victorious! Sadly by the end of the con, we started being too tired to take photos (sorry)!
Congratulations to you all! Looking forward to new adventures in tournaments at the next minicon!
Our Splendor Tournament had 16 entrants, which meant 4 games for the first round of the single elimination, then the 4 winners continuing to the second round. Adam (with hand to head in photo) emerged victorious! Sadly by the end of the con, we started being too tired to take photos (sorry)!
Congratulations to you all! Looking forward to new adventures in tournaments at the next minicon!151 unique games loaned by 6 families.
65 checkouts.
4 Play To Win Games.
The library:
The gaming library along one wall of the big hall.
View from the library
Setting up the library
Ellie the librarian with Phil Mingo, our mascot
We could not be more pleased with the turnout and experience of our first minicon. Great games, great volunteers, great attendees, great attitudes and -- thankfully! -- great weather.
Here are some pix!
The view from the library.
Good turnout!
Splendor
Camel Up!
Merchants & Marauders... Seriously there were too many games to keep track of. Probably half the games played at the con were brought by other people.
One of the 4 tables in Round 1 of the Splendor Tournament.
Shadow Hunters, and Microvores (presented by the game designer)
Sequence (Note: All ages of well-behaved kids are welcome! )
Wasabi
Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Dragonology
RoboRally & Takenoko
Brewmasters & Run Fight Or Die!
Castles of Burgundy
Iron Horse, game in development
The view from the library.
Good turnout!
Splendor
Camel Up!
Merchants & Marauders... Seriously there were too many games to keep track of. Probably half the games played at the con were brought by other people.
One of the 4 tables in Round 1 of the Splendor Tournament.
Shadow Hunters, and Microvores (presented by the game designer)
Sequence (Note: All ages of well-behaved kids are welcome! )
Wasabi
Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Dragonology
RoboRally & Takenoko
Brewmasters & Run Fight Or Die!
Castles of Burgundy
Iron Horse, game in developmentLet the gaming begin!
Pictures to be posted here tomorrow!
A special feature of FlaMinGoCon the First will be a special type of raffle called Play To Win.
We will have 4 games in our library -- RoboRally, Resistance, Jungle Speed and Night of the Grand Octopus -- available to win.
How it works is:
1. You play the game.
2. If you like it, you and anyone else who played it can write your names and contact info on a slip of paper to go in a corresponding jar.
3. At the end of the con, that exact game that was played will be given to one of the people who entered. You do not need to be present to win, but you do have to leave contact information.
Basically: Try it before you (maybe) win it!
You enter for all four games by playing all four of these games, but you can only enter once for each game.
The address of the church is 211 Trinity Place. Following your GPS to this address WILL get you to Holy Trinity, but the opposite side of the building from the entrance we are using. The entrance for the parish hall is facing Tanglewood, which is the street that runs between the church and the tall white towers (Trump Plaza).
If you don't see the parking lot -- keep going around the church.
You are looking for this: You can find it from Flagler or from Tanglewood, which runs between Flagler and Olive.
We will have signs guiding you as well.
We will have signs guiding you as well.
At FlaMinGoCon the First on Jan 24 in West Palm Beach, we know we will mostly see friendly, smart, adorable gamers. Here is a funny article about six OTHER kinds of gamers. If folks leave the cooking and relationship woes at home, we only have to worry about that killer grandma, right?
If we had a board game store like this in West Palm Beach, we may not have created FlaMinGoCon!
Perhaps a field trip is in order up to Melbourne... Here's an article about Get Your Fun On in West Melbourne that is making us jealous!
Can you recommend other game stores in Florida?
