A couple days ago I started a mini-series of posts writing about my fun experience last weekend at SaltCon. After 2 days of solid board game and card game playing, I headed home having played 20 different games with a lot of great people.
Today, I’m sharing more about this fun gaming weekend – covering the rest of the games I played on my day 1 (Friday).
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After a week away on a business trip, I was sure looking forward to a couple days of non-stop board game playing at SaltCon this past weekend.
And I’m happy to report that it was just as fun as I had anticipated!
SaltCon game tables
Ready to dive into the “Hot Games”.
If you like playing board games, then SaltCon is for you. It’s non-stop open gaming for 3 days.
With a game library of over 800 games, there’s never a shortage of something to play.
And if you’re not familiar with how to play a particular game, there’s always someone close by happily willing to teach you.
Yes, the games I played were a lot of fun. But most of the fun is found in the “who”, not the “what”.
And the people that play games at SaltCon are a fantastic assortment of friendly, fun players.
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It’s been over a week since our last board game post because our focus has been elsewhere. Writing about games has taken a backseat to our big family changes.
This week our oldest son, Trevor, left to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
While we’re super excited for this major event in his life, we’re still going to miss him a lot.
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Two weeks from today I’ll be having a blast playing a ton of board games at SaltCON!
What is SaltCON?
SaltCON is a board game convention in Salt Lake City, Utah for casual and competitive gamers alike that keeps getting bigger every year.
Once again this year it’s being held at the Davis Conference Center. And it runs Thursday through Saturday: March 12, 13, & 14, 2015.
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A few months ago we reviewed a fun party game that we highly recommended – Stipulations.
We mentioned at the time that the version we had was just a preliminary version of the game and that a new version was under development. The new version of Stipulations would be released via Kickstarter in January.
Well, that time has arrived – Stipulations is now up on Kickstarter!
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If you have a lot of board games and are continually getting more, you may frequently wonder how to best organize your games.
Here’s our 3 step process on how we evaluate and organize your board game collection.
It’s a great way to give a fresh start to the new year.
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No, board games aren’t just for geeks – jocks love them too!
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reveals that players on the Green Bay Packers team are obsessed with Settlers of Catan.
That’s right board game geeks – NFL pro football players are seeing the light about how great board games can be.
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Now that we’ve rolled into 2015, it’s time to look back over all the board games, card games, and party games I’ve played during the past year.
For 2014, I’ve played 127 different games!
While 61 of those games (48%) are just single plays, that means I’ve played 52% of those games at least a couple times.
And just because I’ve only played a game once, doesn’t mean it’s a bad game. There are plenty of those 61 games that I’d love to play many times.
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As reviewers, we’re constantly getting new games to figure out and play. And we did get a bunch of new board games for Christmas and have played all but one so far.
Over the last 5 years we’ve posted reviews of 250+ board games, cards games, and party games. Which means we’ve also played a bunch more than that.
So we can attest that some games definitely take more work to figure out than others.
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We’ve had a blast playing a bunch of new board games that we got for Christmas.
The extended time off from work and school is a great time for playing games – and we’re taking full advantage of it.
This Christmas we had 11 board games under our tree!
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