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.

According to a reveiwer on Board Game Geek, it’s not a very good game, but it fails in a really beautiful way (Photo shamelessly stolen from there).