Sunday, 26 October 2014

All hail the (BG) geek

Board game geek is a source of lots of info but again and again I wonder how useful it is for the less "hardcore" gamer.

As someone who can't imaging buying a game that I will not get value (more on this later) from, seeing games that last hours high on the list makes me think it is not.
However I saw another take on this list, sort it by number of reviews first them look at the top 10! I suggest you try it.

Value.
A strange fluid concept but one that with my way of thinking I had to quantify.
I came up with this. For every £1 spent I must get 1 hours entertainment,  but that is per play not per player.
So Ticket to ride is amazing value for me, 50 plus hours @ £27 but zombie dice 1 hour @ £10 is terrible value.

While commenting on games I have finally emailed the UK Games Expo to ask about volunteering some of my time to help them next year,  I am really really looking forward to taking my oldest to this event too!

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