Tabletop Leadership

In week #7 we were given the option of free play. During this class three classmates and I chose to play Survive Escape From Atlantis. Overall, I really enjoyed this game, it was fairly easy to set up and play, but complicated enough to peak my interest. The game reminded me of an early version…

In week #6 the class played the board game Ladies & Gentlemen. During this game, players are in teams of two, with one player playing as the lady and one as the gentlemen. Each Lady and Gentlemen plays their own “mini-game” versus the other ladies or gentlemen in order to save up enough cash to…

This last week in class, the game played was a little different from the others, and it was stressful to say the least. I’m talking about Captain Sonar, the real-time team strategy game, all about communication and problem-solving. The first thing to know about this game is the positions all the players can be in…

After a couple of weeks of other work beyond just playing games, a couple of weeks ago we returned to form with a Halloween themed game, Ultimate Werewolf. A party game that the whole class got to enjoy, this game felt very appropriate for the season and honestly is one that I know particularly well…

In week #5 we played Two Rooms and a Boom, which is a large role playing party game. To date this has been my least favorite game in the class, not because it is a bad game per say, but more so because it is not the type of game I enjoy playing. The most…

During week 4 we played my favorite board game from this class to date: Mysterium. Heading into week #4 our teacher described Mysterium as a sophisticated version of Clue, which is my favorite board game of all time, so I was very excited to see what Mysterium was all about. While the premise of the…

In week 3 we played the cooperative turn competitive strategy board game, Betrayal at the House on the Hill. This game was one of my favorites of the class so far, as it encompassed a lot of the components I look for in a game. Betrayal was unique to me because the game changes each…

In week #2, we played the card game Hanabi. Hanabi is a cooperative card game played in small groups (I believe we played with four or five), in which players are trying to set off fireworks by placing cards in numerical order based on the color of the cards. Hanabi, unlike typical card games is…

The first game we played in this course was the Resistance Avalon; a card based game similar to Mafia or Werewolf, combined with the elements of team dynamics/voting, that also has it own unique approach. While I was familiar with the concept of the game, I found Resistance Avalon particularly interesting because of the slight…

This past week’s game, Ladies and Gentlemen was…interesting to say the least. First and foremost, this game is purposefully controversial for how it treats the two different roles, the Ladies and the Gentlemen. Throughout the entire game, the Ladies have to choose what items their Gentlemen should buy them, so at the end of the…