We'll play "Joyride: Survival of the Fastest" , a new racing game release.

Intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNuvTcGWEw

BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/371183/joyride-survival-of-the-fastest

Joyride: Survival of the Fastest is an explosively fun board game of loud, fast, high-interaction racing for two to four players. Tactically plan your route, push your luck to take corners at speed, and crash into your rivals to knock them off course.

Choose a car with unique abilities that change the way you race. Do you want the reliability of Auto-Pilot, the precision of Handbrake Turn or the chaos of Donut? Manipulate dice on your dashboard, pushing your luck to pull ahead. Will you lock in your results for maximum control, or risk rolling them to gain an extra inch?

Move from checkpoint to checkpoint across open maps on the double-sided board. Each map comes different track layouts for every player count and skill level. Checkpoints can be crossed from any direction, so plan a racing line that maximizes your chances, even if it means racing into oncoming traffic.

Smash into your opponents to spin them around or push them out of your way. Sometimes the best racing line is the one that will knock your opponents off-course.

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The fee will be paid directly to the venue and the cost is about $80 per person. They do not sell food there, but you may bring takeaways or order food for delivery.

We'll play the classic worker placement game 'Agricola'.

Please watch the rules video beforehand as I will NOT be doing a full rules teach before we start play: https://youtu.be/eTY-_WJ60a0?si=RDIsIMd6gOYbKfz-

BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31260/agricola
Rules: https://lookout-spiele.de/wp-content/uploads/Argicola_Hobby_rules_EN_web.pdf

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In Agricola, you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else. On a turn, you get to take only two actions, one for you and one for the spouse, from all the possibilities you'll find on a farm: collecting clay, wood, or stone; building fences; and so on. You might think about having kids in order to get more work accomplished, but first you need to expand your house. And what are you going to feed all the little rugrats?

The game supports many levels of complexity, mainly through the use (or non-use) of two of its main types of cards, Minor Improvements and Occupations.

Agricola is a turn-based game. There are 14 game rounds occurring in 6 stages, with a Harvest at the end of each stage (after Rounds 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 14).
Each player starts with two playing tokens (farmer and spouse) and thus can take two turns, or actions, per round. There are multiple options, and while the game progresses, you'll have more and more: first thing in a round, a new action card is flipped over.
Problem: Each action can be taken by only one player each round, so it's important to do some things with high preference.
Each player also starts with a hand of 7 Occupation cards (of more than 160 total) and 7 Minor Improvement cards (of more than 140 total) that he/she may use during the game if they fit in his/her strategy. Speaking of which, there are countless strategies, some depending on your card hand. Sometimes it's a good choice to stay on course, and sometimes it is better to react to your opponents' actions.

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The fee is payable directly to the venue. The charge is about $70. They do not serve food, though you can bring food in or order food to be delivered.