Board and card games, BBQ's, movies, and any other excuse to socialise
Our regular boardgaming nights continue every Wednesday from 730pm, and we occasionally host weekend sessions as well.
Most of our weekend games are organized through our email list, so if you're planning a visit to Dunedin and want to join us for some weekend gaming, please feel welcome to reach out! I'm happy to try and arrange a session to suit your schedule :-). We've hosted a number of weekend games for out-of-town visitors, and even put together an impromptu "Board Games by the Bay" for those who couldn’t make it to the Christchurch event.
COVID19 continues to impact on us, with international visitors being absent from NZ.
Still hosting weekly, though this week (2nd March) is postphoned with the first surge of Omnicon. Next week is also iffy.
COVID19 continues to impact on us, with international visitors being absent from NZ.
Board Games by The Bay will be here for the first time mid-May, which should make for a fun weekend.
COVID19 lockdown made for a long period without boardgames this year, with games cancelled from the 16th March through to Queen's Birthday on the 1st June where we had our first two-table games session.
The following week we had our first normal Wednesday with 3 tables, and then the week after a full house with 22 gamers and 26 people, welcoming Jackson and partner and James for the first time, and Ahmad for his second visit.
A new year dawns. Games continue on Wednesday evenings and occasional weekends (notifications for weekend games are via the list and on whencanweplay) as usual.
Games continue on Wednesday evenings and occasional weekends (notifications for weekend games are via the list and on whencanweplay). We had Maily's, Sarah, and Theo join us from France this year while they were working in Dunedin, and will miss them all!
Games continue on Wednesday evenings and occasional weekends (notifications for weekend games are via the list and on whencanweplay). We have a new address - 71 Viscount Road, Waldronville, Dunedin. Chenoa and Lisa have joined us along with Svejva from Germany and her boyfriend from Australia. Sadly Svenja's stay in Dunedin has come to an end and we miss her and wish her well on her future travels!
Games continue on Wednesday evenings and most weekends (notifications for weekend games are via the list and on whencanweplay). We've also managed to get in a second marathon Advanced Civilization game (13 hours!). We hosted visitors from the US and the UK this summer.
Sunday afternoon games were held for Linea and Hermann (visitors from Copenhagen) this afternoon - thanks to everyone for making them welcome; I'm sure they enjoyed the warm hospitality more than the hail, bitter wind, and thunder the day bought us. Hopefully we return to 20C temperatures of earlier in the week before they leave next Tuesday but I have my doubts ;-).
Sunday afternoon games were held in the games room all afternoon in honour of Malte leaving next week for Germany and Martyn heading away for work next week.
Today we had of us play 3 rounds of Laserstike at Megazone - lots of fun!!
We had another trip to Nichols Falls to introduce Ling, Peter, the Jono's, and Andrew to the glow worms. Sadly there were no freshwater crayfish to view this time around. Peter is down until next weekend, so now is a good time to catch up. He's been overseas for 4 years and will be in Wellington after the weekend.
2013 ended with a big buy up of games, several hundred dollars later we have 14 additions to be played. We also played games several days in a row, peoples holidays lining up to make a perfect storm :-)
Weekend hosting continues, with a record 30 hours of play over Queen's birthday :-). We've bought quite a few new games and replaced a lot of older copies. There will be a hiatus from 8th August to 15th September whilst I am overseas (unless there are volunteers happy to host at their place?). Ad hoc get togethers can still be arranged via the email list and whencanweplay.com website while I'm away too. Remember you can contact myself or Mike if you would like to be added to whencanweplay.
Games, games, and more games, a BBQ on the 24th followed by a drive out to view what was once one of Dunedin's most popular attractions a century ago - the glow worms! No $60 or more fee, all free with Martyn as our local guide, and we also got to see fresh water crayfish :-)
I've secured access to games wholesale and have put in our first order (several hundred dollars worth). I am likely to put in another order next month if people are keen on joining in the fun (being near Christmas and all). I may also sell off some more of our older copies of various games in order to buy newer copies now that we can do this a lot cheaper :-)
We've been playing a fair number of new and longer games during the weekends. We're hosted about 100 game evenings already for 2012 - lots of fun! If you are in Dunedin drop us an email and pop on in :-) For regulars, we're also using a website designed by Mike to indicate which games people are keen to play in the weekends. Contact either of us to have a login created.
Avengers was excellent, lets hope Prometheus is too (we're off to watch it on Saturday). This month we had more Game of Thrones, lots of Battlestar Galactica, and Wednesday was Jeremy's time to shine in Powergrid with a convincing win over all, second place going to Israel with one powerstation less being powered.
So, Battleship the movie was reasonably good, Game of Thrones saw another outing with Israel trashing me early on in the game capturing my home island, and we had Matt from Germany join us until 4am on Saturday the 21st playing with an extended gaming night for Chenoa who was down from Oamaru for the day. All good, with me beating Jeff in Saint Petersburg by 1 point, winning by a similar margin in Alhambra, and then losing by a similar margin to Matt in Kingsburg :-)
A group of us played the new version of A Game of Thrones, and had Jarratt (one of the developers of Endeavor) along for games in March, followed by weekend games on the 9th March - St Petersburg followed by Thurn and Taxi's. Sunday 11th March a group of us are going to watch John Carter :-)
The usual occasional weekend get togethers along with a visit from Walter Mansfield, a UK traveller who spotted mention of the club on BGG :-)
And sadly, Marama heads to Christchurch today (31st January). Hopefully we'll still catch up occasionally when she visits the irresistable Dunedin. I have Marama's contact details if you are visiting Christchurch and would like to catch up there too.
Labour day was interesting with a visit to Martyn's for games (a first for us all apart from Martyn of course) and the following weekend we had a Sunday games afternoon at 357 again. It would have been a BBQ as well but the weather was being unhelpful :-)
A quiet weekend with myself, Lindsay, Marama and Tonic. I'm away next week in Auckland and Michael will be looking after games at my place for the evening.
It's been a quiet month with the girls preparing for exams and Ling in Beijing. I've been hosting a few small quiet weekend game sessions with Ming and Cameron when then turned up with baby one weekend, and the first weekend open games for the last weekend of June:
Five of us played Battlestar Galactica, whilst Lindsay and Steven played Alien Frontiers (Steve had bought but not played it before so Lindsay took honours). There were no cylons in the first half of the game, with me as Admiral, and Dax as President, and so things were relatively quiet and quick moving at the start, but changed with Marama and myself finding out we were cylons after the halfway point. Sadly I had been an effective admiral and our jump was 3 distance at the mid way point bringing us 6 distance (75% of the way home) so it looked like the humans were going to romp home for an easy win. Luckily Marama revealed hersef as a cylon and started runing amok whilst I took the presidency off Dax claiming he was an ineffective President (having failed two inspirational speech attempts), meanwhile giving Brendan the vice presidency card so Dax couldn't take it back himself. Excellent fun ensured when Jeff mistakely put in the wrong cards for a skill check, making it look like he might be the other cylon. With continual undermining and spreading of suspicion we managed to wipe out the human population and Marama and I settled in to wait for a resurrectioon ship to come take us home ;-)
Next up we played Agricola, with Lindsay winning on 40 points, Steve and Brendan having departed, and finally a game of Bohanza (aka Beans) with the buildings expantion after Dax departed. I won handily on 40+ points. Having not played with the building expansion for at least a year I really enjoyed the chance to play!
Games ended about 9-ish with me taking Jeff home and Lindsay and myself heading to a party at Jono's to celebrate his birthday, and Marama heading to a party a few blocks from my place. All in all, a good weekend!
First weekend game in a wee while, with Tonic winning Agricola and then Tigris and Euphrates. I must ge out of practise ;-)
We also got to meet Mario, a visitor from Germany for the first time, and should have another new guest this coming Wednesday.
I was away in China and alas, was unable to find a game loving house sitter whilst I was away. Withdrawl symptoms are now overpowering and I am desperately awaiting this Wednesday :-)
Until then, take care and keep up the tranquilisers.
We had a final get-together and BBQ before a months hiatus in games at 357 North Road as I am heading off to China and the housesitter this time around is not a board gamer (we were lucky the last few trips). Games will be back on the 23rd of February.
Until then, take care and all the best.
We'll, we had another BBQ this last Sunday; and I missed it because I was playing the Civilization board game for 5 hours!! Dax talked Mike into attacking me when he might have been able to take out Dax's capital and win, and I won just before Dax would have and with Michael exactly one square away from one of my three cities. Super close and I won by a technology victory with spaceflight :-)
I joined in a game of Agricola afterwards, with Lindsay on 42, Tonic 41, myself on 38, Cameron and Ming on 35, and Jono very grummpy on 22. A good close game apart from poor Jono who took first player several times but never really got around to choosing wood enough to build fences!
Next week we will have games as usual, but the week after I will be away for a month in China. Andrew is house sitting and I think games will be on a hiatus or perhaps hosted at Mike's place.
I'll email the list once I have confirmation one way of the other.
Cheers,
Mark
We've had a few good BBQ/games sessions and a "swap quality but no longer wanted gifts" session on the 19th - thanks for everyone that could make it I hope you all had as good a time as I did.
Next week we will have games as usual, and on Tuesday some of us will be watching Tron 2 at Hoyts in 3D if anyone is keen on joining us. I have an extra set of 3d glasses in the car so that will save someone a dollar too ;-)
I was also thinking about having an orphans get together for Christmas day for those that don't have anywhere to be.
I'm not sure what time yet, as I will most likely be visiting my dad, another friend who is not very mobile, and having a meal with another group of friends as well.
I'll sort those out and email something out on the list.
Cheers,
Mark
We had another weekend get together with Battlestar Galactica getting another outing along with Puetro Rico, Powergrid, and Ingenious. The iPad proved a source of amusement for Lisa and Reuben, and Cameron and Ming started gathering people's addresses ready for invites after announcing a little suprise and a new wedding date :-)
Well, inception didn't quite rate 9.3 out of 10 with me.
Some serious boardgaming, and a little bit of Wii gaming in honour of the Queen. And a toasty fire for a cold winters day.
We had a get together to celebrate Tonic's birthday on the 24th of April (his actual birthdate is the 23rd).
With the weather being less than accomadating the BBQ was an indoor affair, and we had some yummy cake thanks to Ana :-)
With the long weekend coming up now seems a good time to arrange a weekend get together, especially for those that can't easily come during the week.
If you are free this Sunday we'd love to see you. We'll have board games, some Nintendo Wii computer games, and maybe a movie or two on the video projector depending on what everyone is keen on.
If it is cold the fire will be on so no excuses for you to hide under warm blankets all day :-)
We'll be starting at 3pm, but if you can't make it then you're welcome to join us later.
About 630pm the plan is to break for a BBQ and have more games afterwards for those that want to stay late.
All welcome! :-)
I'm thinking of arranging indoor go kart racing in Kaikorai Valley some time this month or next. Has anyone been and got any feedback on how good the setup there is?
We're heading along to Hoyts to watch Avatar in 3D this Saturday. Let me know if you want to join us and I'll sort out extra tickets.
Same deal - we're heading along to Hoyts to watch Alice in Wonderland in 3D this Sunday. Let me know if you want to join us and I'll sort out extra tickets :-)
We had a small get-together for New Years Eve, with a BBQ, and of course games :-)
Ling and I wanted to head along to the Rialto to watch Avatar and invited everyone else along. In the end there were a few groups of us including Ling and I, Mike and Lauren Miller, Jono, Reece, Andrew, Shaun and mum, Lindsay, Harry, Heidi, Mathew. Cameron and Ming had to cancel since they got engaged the night before :-)
My rating: 9/10 - well worth watching.
Ling and I are back from Australia, and would like to thank Cameron and Ming for housesitting, looking after the cats, and hosting games in our absence =)
Host:
Mark Hodge, Phone 03 479 8598 or 021 614 134, 71 Viscount Road, Waldronville, Dunedin, New Zealand