This game (and in turn this post) is a little bit of a break from our normal, but our kids were gifted Zingo! for Christmas and have been begging us to play it. So, we finally gave in and actually enjoyed it more than we expected to. So, we decided […]
Monthly Archives: January 2021
15 posts
As I promised, here is a dedicated post for The King is Dead (second edition) The Game In my earlier blog post, I described this as a combination of a betting game and an area control game. I will stick with that today. This is a game that feels simple […]
To be honest, we had a rough night tonight. Everyone has those sometimes, right? We started out with some commander for Magic the Gathering (yes, you’ll see that creeping in more and more). Danny wiped our tails with some broken combo allowing infinite tokens created in a turn. I’m sure […]
Dan and I got some mid-week gaming in tonight with 3 rounds of Ticket to Ride: New York. This game will hit our 10 x 10 challenge. Check out our opinions on this game over in our other blog post including information why we like this variant for 2 players […]
That’s right ladies and gentlemen. Our pilot episode of the Flaming Meeple podcast is now live right here on our new site! Click below to find the Podcast page right here. Also, while you’re at it, take a look around the new site. That’s right, this has been a week […]
Welcome to The Flaming Meeple. This podcast is just an idea that Danny (THE Flaming Meeple) had at one point in time and developed into a Youtube channel, but had to put on the shelf due to life. But in 2021, a spark happened that set this idea burning again, […]
Welcome to another weekend game night. This week we featured a new game and got into something exciting that will be coming to you soon! New game: Rival Restaurants! This was a brand new Kickstarter game that came in and an instant favorite. I admit, I didn’t expect to like […]
So, I mentioned before that we had found some variation in the FAQ’s on Mint. So we decided to give it a quick try. The difference here was in how overall panic was applied. In this instance, we applied overall panic during trouble for symbols shown only on the cities […]
So, this post is a little different. Chris joined us tonight, as I promised would occur. I am not sure what format makes the most sense long term for these nights as they tend to have more games, but for this time, we are going to post it as one […]
The Game Fleet is a strategic card game whereby you purchase licenses, launch your fleet of shipping vessels, captain them, fish, and then process for additional income to use in the next round that repeats. The game continues until you run out of cards or can no longer fully fill […]