Date: Saturday Jan 24.
Tentatively 10 am to 8 pm.
Location: downtown West Palm Beach, near the intracoastal even!
More details soon!
The Monsters, the Meeples, the Robots, the Shoguns and various other mini-figs are dusting themselves off and getting excited!
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia..."
Good for the people who found ways to make money off of long-established games that can mostly be played with stuff laying around the house. Here are a few games that you can try, probably without having to lay out cash.
Liar's Dice: you need 5 dice per player and a Dixie cup per player. OK, if you don't have 20 or so dice laying around your house, then this game is probably worth its asking price. But then how serious a gamer are you?
See also: Farkle, Bunco, and The Game of 10,000 (also known as Shitty Dice).
Dictionary Game or Fictionary, Sure, you can find it at game stores under the name Balderdash. The Balderdash producers added a board and other categories to give you more bang for your buck. But the basic game remains unchanged from these basic rules. You just need a good dictionary, some paper and pencils.
Around the world on the weekend of December 6 & 7, people will be playing the cooperative board games Pandemic and Pandemic Cure at a Global Pandemic Party, and donating money to the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, who are currently concentrating their efforts to wipe out ebola in west Africa.
Play games, eat cookies, and help fight disease! Win-Win-Win!
A new group Pandemic Parties is encouraging folks to play the board game Pandemic, a cooperative game that attempts to battle infectious diseases, on the weekend of December 6-7. And while having fun, raise a little money for the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders.
More details coming soon about FlamingoCon's Pandemic party that weekend.
Some on this list are old news to folks who already play board games, but perhaps you'll find a new one. These games are also good for easing your non-game-playing friends into the hobby.
Just a few of our favorites above.
We hope you and your friends will come play some of these with us at FlamingoCon soon!
Why board games?
Kenneth Heilfron won the national championship for the USA, and then went on to best the other competitors to take home the Golden Train Trophy!
(not Heilfron's game, but a winning game at Dice Tower 2014)
Sadly, it seems there was some cheating going on by the original winner, who gave up his title after eagle-eyed online viewers brought evidence of foul play to attention of the officials. Source: Days of Wonder press release.
Keep it clean people! It's just a game!
For those who didn't make it to GenCon this year and have the chance to pick up an advance copy of King of New York -- which would include all of us too -- now we finally can play it. It's similar to King of Tokyo, with a few different elements of game play. Still sussing it out. Looking forward to much more practice soon!
The article's title is The 10 Greatest Board Games You Haven't Played This Year. We could quibble about the "greatest" and "never played", but still a fun list of games, some which we at FlamingoCon have not played yet. We just got a copy of Augustus....
Just a few of our favorites above.
We hope you and your friends will come play some of these with us at FlamingoCon soon!
(not Heilfron's game, but a winning game at Dice Tower 2014)
Sadly, it seems there was some cheating going on by the original winner, who gave up his title after eagle-eyed online viewers brought evidence of foul play to attention of the officials. Source:
