101 things update

[miss_newham]

I only have one new thing to tick off my 101 things list, but it's a biggie - I have played 101 different games! Aptly enough, I finished the challenge on Kevan's birthday. When I wrote the list it always seemed quite likely that I'd manage this one, given we have a large library of board games at home and friends who sometimes come to stay with an

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[lathany]

Which would you recommend?

Also, which were co-operative? (I'm a big fan of co-op)

[miss_newham]

This is a good question! I started off giving a tick to all the games I thought were good, but then I realised that this also depended on what mood I was in, and that some of the games were only good for one play, and some got better if you played them a couple of times till you got the hang of it.

Santorini and Azul are favourites at home and we play them quite often. Potato Man, Fungi and Port Royal are good as fairly quick card games that you can carry around. We've figured out that I quite like push your luck games, and I think that applies to all of these - also Qwinto, a dice game a bit like Yahtzee, which I request quite often.

I don't think I'd recommend Pokemon Monopoly! And I'm very bad at Carcassonne.

I don't think there are many cooperative games on the list as I only tend to play them in big groups, which doesn't happen often. Elder Sign and Betrayal at Balder's Gate were good - both involved trying to escape monsters in a dungeon, but we only succeeded once...