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TWO NEW GAMES

After moving my board game collection its finally sank in that I need to be more selective with my adds and begin to purge games I don’t return to. It’ll be a work in progress.

In the meantime, I played three new games that are delightful adds to the collection!

Monolyth is a simple 2-4 player game where we each use 3D pieces to build our Monolyth, a big ol cube. Take pieces from the board, prediction values, complete layers, and try to assemble the main structure first.

What’s had me charmed about Monolyth is its simplicity in game design that forces risk and choices. Your base for the monolyth has colored sides matching the colors of the pieces. You want these colors on these borders, as when you take prediction tiles (the 9 on the lower right) you want to accurately meet or exceed that number. But making a row of 4 squares across that border takes one square away from either side.

At the same time as you manage colors you’re building in the shape of the randomly chosen structure card. Being first nets more points. Same for layers. Being first nets more points.

Its more a race to do things first. A planning and efficiency race. The structure card is what keeps the game fresh, all in all brilliantly designed little game of little plastic pieces. Monolyth does a lot with a little and I like it a good deal.

Evolution is a game designed by scientists and a magic the gathering player. In it players play adaptations to their species to better get food (victory points). Meanwhile carnivorous species seek to overcome these adaptations with adaptations of their own.

This is such a tightly designed game, I absolutely loved it. It has the dynamic feel of a game of edh where players win and lose at different spots as they make their animals. There’s mechanical politics like how carnivores need to be larger than the species they hunt BUT the body size of the species dictates how much meat is gathered. So my tank of an herbivore was an early game powerhouse that became an endgame buffet.

Evolution has the most interesting card play I’ve seen in a long while with mechanics that back it up with something more substantial. Its relatively simple once you get ahold of the rules and its very effective, this was an excellent find.

Camel Up is an extremely silly camel racing game where you could score +10 points or -2 points and that all depends on if the last place camel decides to move or not.

In Camel Up players bet on legs of a camel race and the overall winner loser. The trick is the earlier you lock in your bets the more points you get. What really makes Camel Up pop is its rules system. The game is chaotic but there’s a logic you can plan around. Camels can’t move on their own twice in the same leg, only 5/6 dice get rolled, and most importantly camels stack and can carry each other across the track.

Camel Up is genuine gold as a fun party betting game. We were cackling with each leg and it genuinely put us in fun positions to bet around. High recommendations for Camel Up, this game has an incredible sense of humor.

[chgreenblatt]

Camel Up is a game where 2-8 players bet on camels racing around a track. I think the description on boardgamegeek.com sums it up better than I could:

“In Camel Up, up to eight players bet on five racing camels, trying to suss out which will place first and second in a quick race around a pyramid. The earlier you place your bet, the more you can win — should you guess correctly, of course. Camels don't run neatly, however, sometimes landing on top of another one and being carried toward the finish line. Who's going to run when? That all depends on how the dice come out of the pyramid dice shaker, which releases one die at a time when players pause from their bets long enough to see who's actually moving!”

The camels don’t belong to any one player, and multiple players can bet on the same camels. Each turn you choose one action: flip the pyramid and reveal a die which moves that color camel, place a bet for the race’s end, pick up a betting tile for that leg, or place a tile on the route which may cause forwards or backwards movement when landed on.

A leg is when all 5 camels have moved. Then payouts happen based on who is in the top two spots. If you bet wrong, you must pay a coin. This happens repeatedly until a camel crosses the finish line. But any camels that land on the same space stack on each other, and only the topmost camel is considered in the lead.

Camel Up is great fun, and best of all it plays well with a large group. There’s an expansion that adds more ways to win money and is especially useful when you play with 6 or more. A new version is coming out soon with updated art, a plastic pyramid, and a couple of new features. Check it out!

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Camel Up

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Board Games Night! Again! :D

We'll be playing Board Games at 6PM in the SU Café, feel free to try something from our library, or even bring your own games! Our last Board Games Night was a great time all 'round, so we hope you'll join us for another evening of quality Gaming! ^-^

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How's it shaking this fine Monday morning, Gamers?

Hungry for some Gaming? GOOD!! 'Cause we're serving up fresh Gaming all week! >:] We're starting with War Games on Tuesday, for the main course, our big MTG Draft is coming up on Wednesday, and then we've got another Board Games night for dessert! :O

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[chenlevkovich]

Played Camel Up a fun little board game. You are in Egpyt, gambling on camel races. What can be better than that?