Pair O’ Dice Games

Spielfrieks user group, of which I am now a member, has narrowed their choices for the Meeples Choice Award down to 25 selections. The original lists were quite extensive so while this may still look a bit unwieldy it’s certainly better than what came before.

The list is as follows:

• After the Flood
• Aquaretto
• Battlestar Galactica
• Chicago Express
• Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear!
• Cosmic Encounter
• Diamonds Club
• Dominion
• Ghost Stories
• Le Havre
• Lost Cities: The Board Game
• Manoeuvre
• Metropolys
• Municipium
• Pandemic
• Planet Steam
• Powerboats
• Royal Palace
• Say Anything
• Snow Tails
• Space Alert
• Steel Driver
• Stone Age
• Tinners’ Trail
• Wealth of Nations

Members were to choose three of these and I chose: Battlestar Galactica, Pandemic and Le Havre. It was a tough choice between Le Havre (which I think is conceptually awesome but I have not played much of) and Cosmic Encounter (which I have played a fair amount of and think is solid but not exactly mind-blowing), on the other hand the other two were easy choices.

Still, I find it bothersome that games like Space Alert are included in this year’s list. If Space Alert is available in the US it has just become available and thus I have not yet had a chance to play it. Stone Age and Snow Tails are also games I have not played but think I would enjoy if I did. In a way, any vote for something could be considered a vote against everything else and I find it difficult voting against something I don’t know enough about. Perhaps voting systems like this should actually let you cast a certain number of negative votes? Probably against the spirit of it I suppose.

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