New Board Game

I have a new board game - Intarsia. In one of our board game nights, my friend Cla said that she wanted us to try this game. I thought it was both interesting and really nice to look at, what with the interestingly shaped wooden pieces that kind of lock together. I asked Cla if she was selling this game and she said that she could just sell me the copy we played. She also sold it to me at a really good price. How could I say no? As such, I now have a new board game, my first new one in a long time.

Intarsia Board Game

I promised myself not to get new games until I can reduce my "shelf of shame." The shelf of shame is the term somewhat popular in board gaming circles and it refers to the set of board games that a person owns that he or she has not played yet. Thankfully, I managed to reduce my shelf of shame a bit recently when my friends and I played my copy of Ecos. I actually really like this game although I don't know if it's because I seem to do quite well. The first time I played it (using Cla's copy), I won relatively convincingly. The second time I played it, I ended up in second place. It can be played by up to 6 players so it's a good choice for us when there are 6 of us playing and we don't want to break up into two different tables during game night.

Ecos Board Game

Hopefully, I get to reduce my shelf of shame a bit more before the year ends. My goal is to finally play two games I have that I have been wanting to play for a while - Altiplano and Yokohama.