Modern Board Games at El Santiago on Monday Nights

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Default Modern Board Games at El Santiago on Monday Nights

๐Ÿ˜ฌ PUBLIC SERVICE ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
๐Ÿ˜ฌ ANNOUNCEMENT! ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

The Villages has a ๐›๐จ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› which meets regularly every Monday at 6PM! Whatโ€™s different about this group of game-playing folks? We play more ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ง board games that you may or may not have heard of! Such games require more ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐œ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  and less luck and most have been published in the last 10-15 years, some are even very recent! How these games are played might vary widely from what youโ€™re used toโ€”some of them are even ๐œ๐จ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž games where you donโ€™t have to ๐›๐ž๐š๐ญ other players to win and have a good time, or suffer ๐›๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ง and branded a loser of the game.

Very few of our games are of the old style where several people are playing and then halfway through the game, one or more players are ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ and have nothing else to do. They are all ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž and allow you to sharpen your wits and ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐œ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ by decision making and critical thinking with just enough chance to keep you on your toes (at least where your brain is concerned)!

This is not to say that we donโ€™t play many light, ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ž๐ฌ as well. The important thing to know is that we like to play these games with new people and all club members are ready and willing to ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ ๐š๐ฆ๐ž that they know and love.

Last Monday, one table struggled through immense hard luck, playing a coop game called Sub Terra where players move their tokens around a board and explore a cave system to find their way out before the batteries in the flashlights are dead and ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ป ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜. Although we failed miserably, we had a lot of fun. To simulate the exploration, the Sub Terra board is created as-you-go by each person playing one or more ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ as the game progresses that connect to the existing tunnels and may sometimes reveal hazards such as cave-ins or flooding. It is ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ like no game of monopoly ever has been!

We also played one of the older classic games: Carcassonne published in 2000. In Carcassonne you ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ lay tiles which shape the medieval landscape of France. Each player claims cities, monasteries and farms to score points.

Another table played Century Spice Road (published in 2017) in which players are caravan leaders who travel the famed silk road to deliver spices to the far reaches of the continent for fame and glory. This game uses cards and spice tokens which allow you to build your caravan to claim points and win the game.

These are only a few examples of the types of games we usually play. Some other games have included Kingdom Builder, Ticket to Ride, Terraforming Mars, Clank!, Munchkin, Small World, Power Grid, Wingspan, and many others. We are on again at our usual time ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐๐š๐ฒ!!

๐ƒ๐€๐˜: Monday October 17
๐“๐ˆ๐Œ๐„: 6:00PM - Close
๐‹๐Ž๐‚๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐: El Santiago Recreation Center, Tiki Hut room

All are welcome! Come bring your favorite modern board game or learn to play one of ours! We teach new people how to play new games every week!!
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