It’s our birthday! On Thursday August the 5th. There will be cake. Find the Facebook event here.
This month, I am interested in Waldschattenspiel, a boardgame to be played in the dark that centres on the light of a single candle. Gnomes must hide in the shadows and move between them. The light player closes their eyes while everyone else moves, and on their turn they get to move the candle, freezing any gnomes it reveals.
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(Image by Feeling Croppy)
The next Gambling Lambs is on Thursday the 3rd of June. As ever, you can find it on facebook here, and join the group here.
This month, boardgame cover art has us all riled up. Cover art in boardgames seems to be like sound design for videogames: mostly neglected, underestimated, and given a tiny fraction of the budget it deserves, and with occasional good examples that really stand out. Too ..read more
May’s Gambling Lambs got torpedoed by the General Election, and will now go ahead on Wednesday the 5th of May. Sign up to the event on Facebook here, the group here, and get regular updates or chat with us on Twitter.
New games this time include Through The Desert, which is a route building game without the rails of Ticket To Ride. The meaningless but flavourful ..read more
This Thursday! It’s Gambling Lambs number 8. Infinite City was a hit last time, and will be there again. Maybe some new games too, but we never know. It’ll be at Lee Rosy’s Tea, on Broad Street, Nottingham, from 18:00. Come down. Find the details on Facebook, and hit us up there too.
(Image by the big bambooly, who does excellent long exposure work with light toys)
Snow has broken the world! Ish.
So, if you can’t make it tomorrow, we’ll understand. Ish.
Some of you might be worried about buses stopping tomorrow night, etc. Some of us will definitely be there with games, and we hope you can make it.
According to metcheck right now, it’s not going to snow any more until late on Friday: http://metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/today.asp?zipcode=ng1
Most buses are running at least diverted services from town. If you want service information, ..read more
Gambling Lambs continues to be good fun, and I’ve stopped counting. Number 6 is this Thursday, the 7h of January, at Lee Rosy’s Tea Room, Broad Street, Nottingham. Look at the event on Facebook here, and join the group here.
Also, look at this:
How amazing is that for a Lego model? It’s by dasnewten on Flickr, who makes lots of stunning looking ones. Also make sure to check out ..read more
(CC image by ginnerobot).
At the December Gambling Lambs, we played a modded version of Werewolf for Christmas. We ummed and ahhed for a while over what to do with it, wanting at first to do something seer related with Santa: He knows who’s good and bad just like the seer, but can also give out presents. In the end we opted for something similar with just presents. Ross and I got a bunch of Christmas ..read more
It’s just 9 days until the next Gambling Lambs now, on Thursday the 1st of October, 18:00 – 22:00 at Lee Rosy’s.
You can say you’re coming to the event here on facebook, and don’t forget to join the group if you’re on there and would like your invites all regular, like.
Photo by Richard Heeks.
We took plenty of photos at Gambling Lambs #2, so if you haven’t been yet you’ll have some idea of what to expect. You can see the whole set here on Flickr, but here are a couple too. We usually take over the basement, but if it gets any bigger we’re going to be taking over the upstairs too…
^ Was one of the more memorable quotes from last night.
Thank you all so much for turning up, we had an amazing time and are so pleased that you all seemed to, too!
We had around 25 people, playing games such as G.I. Joe, Doctor Who, Khet, Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow, Are You A Traitor?, Dream Phone (Which is most certainly not called Boy Love), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Magic: The Gathering, MindTrap, Fluxx (both regular and Monty Python), Zombies and ..read more