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Touring Ticket To Ride During Free Play Day
This week we had a free week and I chose to bring a few games, one of which my friends and I ended up paying, being, Ticket to Ride. I’ve wanted to play this game for a while so I was really excited to have the opportunity to play, and to have JS there to…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 8- Ticket to Ride- Europe Map
For week 8 in class, it was a free play week. I choose to play Ticket to Ride- Europe Map. I had never played this game, but some of my family has, so I figured it would be a good game to try. Everyone who played that night in class had never played before. Yet,…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection Week 6 Mental Blocks
My group this week decided to play Mental Blocks. The game is a group puzzle where each player sees the shape from one perspective. We had to construct the shape out of blocks within the time limit while also following other restrictions such as only touching one color. Overall we struggled much more than I…
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Two Rooms and a Boom
This week’s games have me very interested. In the game, players are divided into two camps: the blue team and the red team. At the beginning of the game, players will get random character cards, randomly assigned to two different rooms, and then start the game. During the game, players have to talk, reason, and…
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It’s No Secret That 2 Rooms & a Boom is a Bunch of Fun!
Two Rooms and a Boom is a game that I actually had played prior to class, and it was just as fun in class as it was the first time I played it a few years ago my freshman year of college. I think the first round is challenging and makes people question whether or…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 5: Fiasco Week 2
In class we played Fiasco two weeks in a row. For the second week we played from the Tilt to the Aftermath. The hardest part for me was that I had never played a role-playing game before. I tend to be more shy around people I don’t know and it was hard for me to…
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Attend & Reflect on a Campus Gaming Event
RECON Reflection This past weekend, March 4th through 6th, we (Junyan Li, Ian Larson, Yuxuan Wang) attended RECON, the League of Geek’s annual convention at Armstrong Student Center. The League of Geeks is an organization consisting of 19 individual clubs who mutually promote, collaborate, and support each other. Once a year, all of the…
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Mental Blocks
My game of choice this week is Mental Blocks. This is a building block game that requires teamwork to complete. There are six people on our team and the goal is to complete the required image structure within the stipulated time. I think it’s very interesting that each member of the team can only get…
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Survive-Escape From Atlantis, a Whirlpool of a Game
This week we played Survive- Escape From Atlantis and overall, I enjoyed this game. The game itself is very simple and I like that it implements so many aspects of other games into it, such as Battleship and Sorry. Getting started with the game was difficult at first because of the different elements to the…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 4: Fiasco Week 1
In class we played Fiasco two weeks in a row. For the first week we played up until the tilt. The hardest part for me was that I had never played a role-playing game before. I tend to be more shy around people I don’t know and it was hard for me to start scenes…
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