#cross clues

[retrocgads]

USA 1981

[hingadora-plays-games]

I made it out to board games at a new place last night, introducing two folks to Flash Point. We played the basic map, and the comic book store owner was advised by one of the other players to stock the game, "because [it] would sell copies of itself." Getting that kind of reception after introducing folks to a game felt pretty great. :>

Things never got too out of hand in Flash Point, but it showed how things could suddenly spike, so the game cooperated nicely with being a good teaching game.

We followed that up with three games of Cross Clues, which is an interesting Codenames-ish game. You've got a 5x5 grid, with words lining both axes. Depending on player count, you either get a hand of a single grid coordinate or two, and when someone's got a clue for one of their cards, they give a single word, and the group confers before picking a coordinate. If they get it right, then the card goes in that spot, and if the group misses, the card gets discarded, unseen. If it's discarded, the game is a bit harder, because that's some missing information.

Cross Clues was neat, and I'm definitely down to play it some more. The clue I was probably proudest of was "Masque" (giving the spelling is allowed) for the intersection of Costume and Red.