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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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

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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

Hello out there all you gaming fans.

If you already come, or are planning to come, to Gambling Lambs, chances are you’ve heard of GameCity.

This year, being GameCity Squared and all (That’s the 4th year for you out there not in the know), the nice folk over at Hide&Seek have decided to stop by in Nottingham on their Sandpit UK Tour. They’ll be in the city on Wednesday 28th October which is the first day of GameCity. ..read more

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When I was writing stuff for the about page of this site, there was one group of games I really wanted to mention, but struggled mightily with: games that depend more on social interaction than any deck of cards, arena, markers or boards. I decided on “social games”, and almost immediately regretted it.