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In a world of bling and deluxe, there’s now a ¥2200 low-budget version of Ra.

It’s a tiny box too, tightly packed. All cardboard. So happy about this. I have the all-wood 25th C games edition and am gonna keep it, but that company lost all of its good will with me when they made an acrylic version.

Playable with Heckadeck or Everdeck.

Here is the Everdeck’s guide.

Between these two pages you can hopefully figure out the rules to koi-koi.

The Count is no more and instead for Carcassonne 3e they made this.

Not into it 😭

Matt Leacock just posted his difficulty ideal on BGG.

Design the game such that:
if a group of people appropriately self-selects a well-defined difficulty setting,
that their odds of success will be about 50/50,

Proposed house rule variant for Castle Ravenloft.

Here are the abapa rules.

And while the entire idea is “grab a ‘Kalaha’ set from any toy store or in that neglected dusty stack of games at the local pub and play a deeper and more interesting game”, you might need to bring extra beads. A typical Swedish ‘Kalaha’ set has 48 which is perfect for abapa oware but pallanguli needs more than three times as many, 148 total.

If you have eighty pieces divided into two colors of fourty pieces each, playing Cups is an option.

Bonus! There’s also Pallanguli that also seems awesome! Here, we have the opposite problem because it uses 2×7 houses. So here, do assign the players one of the side houses each and set scored pieces aside next to the board.

Here are the abapa rules.

One of my wishes for many years has been to find a deep and interesting game you can play with the kind of mancala set that’s readily available here in Sweden for Kalah, which is not a very interesting game. I also still wanted the game to have a Mancala feel with “sowing”.

I knew about Bao but it requires more pits than a standard Mancala set has.

From Bouncepaw’s links:

Wow so advanced

via Optozorax

Oh, a fan-made continuation of Android: Netrunner!

An oldie from 2017 but new to me.

I usually prefer just saying what’s the main goal (“most points win”, and pointing to the vp track while there’s a bunch of sarcastic comments from the non-gamers like “o rly I thought fewest points won… not!” because they don’t about misère scoring games like Parade or No Thanks I guess) and then just say what to do in each moment.

That’s also my own preference when learning a game: the end goal as succintly as possible and then just start playing with no explanation, just explain as we go.

Kingdom Builder / Rebirth comparison thread.

17 Bodies Found After All 22 On Board Killed In Russian Mi-8T Helicopter crash

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17 Bodies Found After All 22 On Board Killed In Russian Mi-8T Helicopter crash

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17 Bodies Found After All 22 On Board Killed In Russian Mi-8T Helicopter crash

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17 Bodies Found After All 22 On Board Killed In Russian Mi-8T Helicopter crash

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Way worse than bamboo or real wood since it’s still 20% plastic which, even if there’s a recycling loop, sheds micros. But, might it measure up to painted wood…? Some paints are bad.