(Edit: Unbeknownst to Ross, Ossian and maybe Tom Rosin have agreed to be nominally in charge for the night. Inasmuch as anyone is ever in charge of Gambling Lambs, that is).

Hey guys!

Thursday 2nd February is the next Gambling Lambs!

At this month’s spectacular, your regular hosts (David & Ross) will be absent! So it’s going to be just like one of those lessons in school where you were meant to have a supply teacher, but they never turned up, so you spent the whole class playing cards or generally just being stupid. There were no mobile phones back then, so you couldn’t just sit for an hour and play on your smartphone either. You had to MAKE fun. It was lovely. Do that. Make fun. (just not of each other)

I do hope you all have fun and don’t get up to too much mischief whilst we’re away!

You’ll all see each other in a week, but me and David will see you in March!

As usual, you can find the event on Facebook. Well, when David puts it up there, anyway. Edit: LINK!

(Photo by the wonderful Arielle Nadel on Flickr!)

You may have heard rumours of Gambling Lambs changing date. They’re technically not even rumours, because you probably heard them directly from me and Ross. They might be substantiated soon, but not for now.

The next one will be on Thursday, January the 5th, meaning you’ll have over four days to shrug off your new year hangover and get down to Lee Rosy’s.

Among the games there will be Lifeboat (http://siadek.com/lifeboat.html), and Deadwood (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/96713/deadwood). Feel better about your goody two shoes resolutions, by playing games about being a very, very bad person.

You can find these events on Google+ or Facebook!

So, we’ll see you on Thursday 5th January 2011 from 6pm to 10pm!

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It’s Gambling Lambs tonight. TONIGHT!

At 18:00!

That’s pretty much all I have to say.

Forgot to put up a post about it within plenty of time.

I hope people can still make it!

DO COME!

Hey! We had a marvellous time at GameCity, thanks for coming. Hopefully get some photos up soon. For now, the next Gambling Lambs is tomorrow, and we have something very special for you.

You see this?

That Johann Sebastian Joust, that is. It was developed by a lovely man called Doug, from Die Gute Fabrik, along with his friends Nils and Niklas. He’s sent us a copy, and we’ve piled up the PS Move controllers so you can play it, tomorrow, from 21:00 at Lee Rosys. Before that, from 18:00, we’ll have all the usual games too. See you there!

Hello everybody.

Good news about 2 of your favourite things! Gambling Lambs and GameCity!

As like last year, we two unstoppable forces are joining… forces… again at GameCity6!

That’s right, like GC5, we’re holding a Gambling Lambs Board Game Library right in the middle of it all, in the tent on the Market Square!

We’re going to have a whole host of games for people to play, including the usual suspects that are present at GL plus a whole lot more! We also encourage people to bring along their own games to add to the library as well!

Don’t worry though, as every game we have will be carefully weighed, tagged (non-adhesive) and catelogued and only loaned out in exchange for some form of ID to ensure that you get your game and all it’s glorious pieces back! (Ross and David have ran this Board Games Library 3 times before, and we’ve never lost a single piece, so you can rely on us to take extra special care of your beloved games!).

One thing we’re going to do slightly differently this year is ask if anybody would like to help out? We’re aiming to have a few people on hand that between us all know how to play and explain the majority of the games we have in the library, so that if anybody wants to play anything, we can loan out not just the game, but a helper as well to explain and help set up the game! If you would like to help out, even if it’ll just be for a little while, please email Ross letting him know when you’ll be free to help, leaving a number or an email address to contact you on.

As mentioned, we’ll be in the tent in the Market Square. We’ll be there all day on Thursday (That’s 10am-5pm), and we’ll have a nice shiny board so you will be able to see us!

We’re here on the GameCity schedule, so don’t forget to add it to your intinerary and come along and play!

We hope to see you all there!

It’s Gambling Lambs #27 this week!

This time last year, I was pulling my hair out trying to negotiate the constant rule amendments needed for the Halloween edition of Werewolves, and upon remembering this, I decided ‘F#&$ it, I’m not putting myself through that special kind of hell again’.

This year, we’re just having a normal, good old Gambling Lambs.

There’s a lot of new students around the city this month, so if you know anybody new to the city who you think might enjoy GL, do let them know about us, or bring them along! We’d love to have new people =)

There’s a couple new games I’ve seen around over this last month that I’m sure will make an appearance this month which are all really good, so make sure you don’t miss it!

And as usual for the October GL, there’ll be GameCity announcements! Hooray!

As usual, it’s at Lee Rosy’s Tea and it starts at 18:00!

(There would usually be a nifty little Facebook event link here, but I deleted my Facebook the other week, so David’s going to have to do that from now on… LUCKY HIM.)

Edit by David: LUCKY ME.

Hello everyone, this Thursday is Gambling Lambs time! Hooray!

That’s right, we’ll be ringing in September by playing lots of amazing games!

There are a couple of new ones making an appearance this time around, and one of the new ones that I’ll be dying to play is Dixit Odyssey! This is the 3rd instalment of the Dixit series which introduces new cards and a new way to play, and I’m very looking forward to trying it out!

As usual, it’s at Lee Rosy’s Tea this Thursday 1st September and it starts at 18:00 and you can find the Facebook event here.

Hope to see you all there!

We were very surprised to find ourselves linked from the Guardian website this morning, thanks to Lee Rosy’s proprietor Andrew Beales getting it into a piece on interesting venues around the country. Congrats Andrew! We can heartily second the Guardian’s recommendation, as we’ve been using Lee Rosy’s as our venue for two years now. We’re also fond of Quad in Derby, as well as Drink, Shop and Do in London; both lovely places to sit with a cup of tea.

As someone who travels around the country a fair bit, it’s been nice to see these kind of venues popping up here and there. If you’re in Edinburgh for the Fringe right now, check out Black Medicine Coffee and The Chocolate Tree too. Not quite the cultural places in the Guardian piece, but great little cafes.

If you’re in Nottingham and interested in boardgames, do come and join us at Lee Rosy’s on the first Thursday of each month, from 18:00 to 22:00. The games are commercial games, on a level that’s more interesting than typical family boardgames, but not so complex that you can’t have a cup of tea and a chat over them. Me or Ross will be happy to introduce you to people and/or teach you to play something.

So this Thursday marks Gambling Lambs’ 2nd Birthday! That’s right, we’ll officially be 2!

And to celebrate, we’ll be joined by our usual collection of home-made goodies by all who would like to bake and bring!

In the previous years, we’ve had a multitude of game themed cakes, cookies, muffins, cupcakes, biscuits, this, that, the other. Maybe this year we’ll get a game themed loaf of bread. That would be neat.

There’ll be the usual collection of games there, and maybe even a few new ones!

If the weather is nice, we’ll surely play some more Ninja if people want to, however if it’s rainy, then we’ll likely stay indoors and play Werewolves, or maybe we’ll host both, to appease both the crowds!

So to re-cap – BIRTHDAY.

Please feel free to make something and bring it along. It doesn’t have to be game themed, but you get extra points if it is!

As usual, there’s a Facebook event here! (Maybe by GL26, we’ll be able to make a Plus event! Here’s hoping!)

See you Thursday!

Image by flickr user ‘J’.

Exciting news! This Thursday, there will be no Werewolf. We have a new game called NINJA, and provided the weather is good, we will have to go OUTSIDE at around 21:30 to play it. It’s brilliant. Turn based, involves striking ninja poses, and a game with a dozen or so people only takes about five minutes. The people in the photo above are shown playing this game. During one turn, Richard fell over, lost a shoe, and had to stay there until his next turn.

We will also, once again, have King of Tokyo around for anyone who didn’t get to play it last time. It’s a lovely, silly dice rolling game where you take chances to try and crown your B-Movie monster as supreme destroyer of infrastructure or last monster standing.

Sign up here on Facebook, follow us here on Twitter, or just see us Thursday, downstairs at Lee Rosy’s from 18:00.

(Photo of Ed Key, Jeffrey Sheen, and Richard Hogg by Marie Foulston, originally on Instagram).