Darlene and I joined Roland, Charles, Mark, Jon and Steve last weekend in South Lake Tahoe for a couple of fun filled days of gaming – thanks again for hosting, Steve! We had adventures in Welcome to the Dungeon, Bang! The Dice Game, Sidereal Confluence, Raptor, Crazy Karts, Viva Java, Category 5, Chameleon, Codenames, and Ladies and Gentlemen. Click through for the gallery:
Tag: board gaming
New Years Eve Gaming Day
We got a fun crowd together for gaming on New Year’s Eve day with Roland, Troy, Rachel, Dan, Kevin, Vanessa and myself:
And we got in games of Terraforming Mars, Raptor, Deception, Viral, Splendor, Bang! – The Dice Game and King of Tokyo!
Pre-Movie Gaming Day
Clay, Roland, Vanessa and Kevin joined Darlene and me for some board gaming ahead of the full crowd we had for last Saturday’s BBQ/movie night. (I should’ve taken a couple of pics of the full house.) We got in a long game of Power Grid followed by trying a few rounds of the cute new Cheaty Mages.
Gaming Day @ Charles’ Place
Finally got to experience a proper run-through of the team-based, submarine hunt “Captain Sonar” as part of our full day of gaming at Charles’ place with Mark, Jon, Roland, RC, Steve and Stefan. It was tense and it was a blast!
Roland’s follow-up:
- Space Cadets: Dice Duel was total mayhem. Charles, I let you down as captain!
- “Oh, is that a Category 5?” Yah, Stefan, go ahead and take that. Category 5 is such a solid filler game.
- Sushi Go Party was good, but not sure about how good it really is with 8 players.
- Steampunk Rally… much mayhem. Pretty sure I avoided DFL, but not by that much! I had a great time despite Christopher feeling isolated. :P
- Captain Sonar was as good as advertised. We got to see Charles snap as Captain. Dunno about the other sub, but on ours Mark did a tremendous jobs as Radio Operator. Jon and Stefan were a fantastic engineering/first mate duo.
- SpaceTeam. Yah… Sure, we cheated a bit (picking up cards and showing them to ask for tools), but we did eventually win! In celebration of our victory, I put together a video. Truly, it was my pleasure…

Gaming Day @ Charles’ Place
Tahoe Skiing
Here’s a handful of pictures and a video montage from a couple of Tahoe ski trips in March with Darlene and the Outdoor Adventure Club. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch everyone on camera on these trips. One weekend was with Greg and Erin but we never caught up with Bruce and Jane on the slopes and the other was with Stéphane, Evan, Richard and Jennifer but you can’t tell that from the photos. We also met up with Resi and Troy (and baby Aiden!) one day and foolishly I didn’t get a single shot of Aiden ripping up the slopes! At least I did get a shot of our massive Carcassonne game where we played with four of the major expansions at once.
Skiing/Gaming Week in Tahoe
A Couple of “Involved” Board Games
Just some pictures from two different days involving some rather involved board games. In other words, *lots* of setup and a *long* time to complete! The first one I recognize as being the “Lord of the Rings” board game, but I don’t remember what the second was — other than that Roland was very excited to finally get to try it….