Tabletop Leadership

Hanabi is a cooperative card based game where your team of pyrotechnicians is trying to make a successful firework show! Hanabi is the word for firework in Chinese and you will be trying to make a number of these by making runs of the same colored cards. The problem is nobody can look at their…

Two Rooms and a Boom is a social game where each player will secretly get a role. Then they are divided into two rooms and the terrorists are trying to get the bomber to be in the same room as the president by the end of the game. I felt like this was a very…

Survive Escape From Atlantis is one of my favorite games we played this semester! I didn’t think I was going to be a huge fan of the game because I generally dislike lighter family style games because they rely too much on luck and not enough on skill, but I really liked this games “take…

Ultimate Werewolf was the first game we played in class. It is a social deduction game where players don’t know the other players roles and the villager players need to find and kill the werewolves hidden in the village. I have played the game before and my opinion about the game did not change in…

Small World was a game I brought in during the free game week. Small World is a fantasy war game where each faction has a special thing about them and these faction cards are paired at random with unique abilities or powers. This gives the game great replayibility because the factions will be different every…

Time Stories is a game where you and a group of people go back in time and try and solve a puzzle to avoid a “temporal rift” (at least I think that was the term). I thought I was going to hate this game because I generally hate games that heavily on storytelling or immersion.…

Review She Kills Monsters is a play by Qui Nguyen and was directed by Bridget Leak at Miami University. The play centers on the character Agnes after her whole family dies in a terrible car accident. After the accident Agnes is plagued by her idea that she never really got to learn about her younger…

This week we played Smallworld. Smallworld is a game Ryan brought in that focuses on turn-based strategy and resource management. The hardest part about the game for me was probably determining what the correct strategy was given how there was no clear better race to start as at least at the start. As we played…

I think I really liked Captain Sonar. Even if the first few games were somewhat incredibly frustrating. It was still fun the last game where I felt like I could finally have confidence in my crew on what was actually happening because we finally knew the rules well. I played as the captain the whole…

Two Rooms and a Boom Reflection            This game was very odd for me. I did not really see the fun in it when I saw the video describing it and I did not find the fun when I played it either. The hardest part was the whole feeling of futility and helplessness I felt…