Gamers on Board! [International Boardgamers]

I'm hosting a special Beginners' Night where beginners, and those new to the hobby, will be given priority. Little or no previous board game experience is needed as I will teach all the games.

After playing Catan we'll play Splendor, or a shorter game, depending on the time.

Collect and trade resources to build up the island of Catan in this modern classic.

Difficulty level: Light - rules will be explained

PLEASE keep an eye on your messages! If I don't receive a reply from you within 24 hours I will give your place to someone else.

In CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine which resources the island produces. Players build structures by 'spending' resources (sheep, wheat, wood, brick and ore) which are represented by the relevant resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce wood, mountains produce ore, fields produce wheat, and pastures produce sheep.

Set-up includes randomly placing large hexagonal tiles (each depicting one of the five resource-producing terrain types--or the desert) in a honeycomb shape and surrounding them with water tiles, some of which contain ports of exchange. A number disk, the value of which will correspond to the roll of two 6-sided dice, are placed on each terrain tile. Each player is given two settlements (think: houses) and roads (sticks) which are placed on intersections and borders of the terrain tiles. Players collect a hand of resource cards based on which terrain tiles their last-placed settlement is adjacent to. A robber pawn is placed on the desert tile.

A turn consists of rolling the dice, collecting resource cards based on this dice roll and the position of settlements (or upgraded cities—think: hotels), turning in resource cards (if possible and desired) for improvements, trading cards at a port, possibly playing a development card, or trading resource cards with other players. If the dice roll is a 7, the active player moves the robber to a new terrain tile and steals a resource card from another player who has a settlement adjacent to that tile.

Points are accumulated by building settlements and cities, having the longest road or the largest army (from some of the development cards), and gathering certain development cards that simply award victory points. When a player has gathered 10 points (some of which may be held in secret), s/he announces this and claims the win.

(Description from BoardGameGeek)

Price: $90 ($50 deposit required from first-timers and people I haven't met before to reserve their place. I'll message you with details).

No outside food is allowed at the venue. It is also a shoes-off venue.

No-show and lateness: anyone not showing up, dropping out on the day or late the night before or being late a number of times without good reason may be blacklisted from my future games.

GoB Games Day, Session 1: Wingspan
Please watch the short video beforehand, unless you already know the rules.
Rules: https://youtu.be/lgDgcLI2B0U?si=XGLFN45M-SNPUfHy
BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266192/wingspan

Please have Notifications switched ON for messaging, or share your whatsapp with the Event Host. If we cannot reach you via messages, we may shift you onto the Waitlist.

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Wingspan is a medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building game. You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
- Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
- Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
- Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.

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The fee will be $120 per person for the WHOLE DAY of gaming on 10 May 10am-9pm, regardless of whether you join 1, 2 or 3 sessions. They do not sell food, but you can order food to be delivered or bring takeaways.

GoB Games Day, Session 1: SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Please watch the short video beforehand, unless you already know the Rules.

Rules: https://youtu.be/xsJgjoEYNAY?si=RAaqDGFN4S2XBImY
BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/418059/seti-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence

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In SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, you lead a scientific institution tasked with searching for traces of life beyond planet Earth. The game draws inspiration from current or emerging technologies and efforts in space exploration.

Players will explore nearby planets and their moons by launching probes from Earth while taking advantage of ever-shifting planetary positions. Decide whether to land on their surface to collect valuable samples, or stay in orbit for a broader survey. Additionally, by directing your telescopes to gaze into distant star systems, you may detect traces of alien signals or undiscovered exoplanets, and collect promising data to examine and study back home.

Back on Earth, you can invest in upgrading your equipment so you can analyze incoming data more efficiently, boost your telescope signal capacity, or increase your supply of resources—all to expand the scope of your search that could lead to a discovery of extraterrestrial life forms.
You will also make use of over 200 cards to aid your efforts or focus your research in a particular direction for additional bonuses and rewards. Each card has unique effects and illustrations and depicts real-life technologies, projects, and discoveries (like the ISS, Large Hadron Collider, Perseverance rover, Voyager probe, and many more).

Finding traces of extraterrestrial life is only a matter of time—utilize the resources you have at your disposal strategically and you may well end up being the one to make the biggest scientific contribution towards advancing our understanding of alien life within our galaxy.

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The fee will be $120 per person for the WHOLE DAY of gaming, i.e. 10am-9pm, regardless of whether you join 1, 2 or 3 sessions. They do not sell food, but you can order food to be delivered or bring takeaways.

GoB Games Day, Session 1: Sidereal Confluence
Please watch the short video beforehand, unless you already know the Rules.
Intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_ueKNtbWg
Rules: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/147518/sidereal-confluence-rulebook
BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/202426/sidereal-confluence

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Please have Notifications switched ON for messaging, or share your whatsapp with the Event Host. If we cannot reach you via messages, we may shift you onto the Waitlist.

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Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant is a singularly unique trading and negotiation game. Over the course of the game, each race must trade and negotiate with the rest to acquire the resource cubes necessary to fund their economy and allow it to produce goods for the next turn. Scheming, dealing, and mutually beneficial agreements are key to success. While technically a competitive game, Sidereal Confluence has a cooperative feel during the trading phase as no race has the ability to thrive on its own. Trade well, and you'll develop technologies and colonize planets to form a civilization that is the envy of the galaxy.

Each player chooses one of the nine unique and asymmetrical alien races that have come together to form a trade federation in their quadrant. Each race has its own deck of cards representing all the existing and future technologies it might research. Some races also have other cards related to unique features of their culture. These cards represent portions of the culture's economy and require spending some number of cubes to use, resulting in an output of more cubes, ships, and possibly victory points. Since each culture's outputs rarely match their inputs, players need to trade goods with one another to run their converters to create the resources they truly need to run their society most efficiently and have an effective economy. Almost everything is negotiable, including colonies, ships, and all kinds of resources.

Each game round contains an open trading phase in which all players can negotiate and execute deals for cubes, ships, colonies, even the temporary use of technologies! Players with enough resources can also research technologies, upgrade colonies, and spend resources on their race's special cards during this phase. Once complete, all players simultaneously run their economies, spending resources to gain more resources. The Confluence follows, starting with players sharing newly researched technologies with all other races and following with bidding to acquire new colonies and research teams. Researching a new technology grants many victory points for the prestige of helping galactic society advance. When one race builds a new technology, it is shared with everyone else. Technologies can be upgraded when combined with other technologies.

The ultimate goal is victory points, which are acquired by researching technologies, using your economy to convert resources to goods, and converting your leftover goods into points at the end of the game.

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The fee will be $120 per person for the WHOLE DAY of gaming, i.e. 10am-9pm, regardless of whether you join 1, 2 or 3 sessions. They do not sell food, but you can order food to be delivered or bring takeaways.