Interesting week of losing games. No games on Thanksgiving though:

#No Thanks! @6p - Had a few new people at my Monday game night so while we waited for a few of the regulars, we played some quick warm-up games. I was forced to take the 35 card with almost no chips on it so it was disasterous for me after that. Got last place.

#For Sale @6p - Needed another small game. The new people loved this. I was able to get a pretty even spread of properties then used them quite well in the selling phase to grab a very strong first place finish.

#Dice Forge @3p - The regulars finally arrived so we split off into two groups. I took the new people and we played this. They had actually already played it but we're very happy to give it another go. I didn't have any real strategy but still managed to win by 4 points.

#Tiny Epic Galaxies @2p - The new players left and a semi-regular arrived pretty late so while we waited for the other group to finish their game I taught him this. He did pretty well and while I got a significant early lead, he quickly caught up and ended up beating me by 2 points even after I triggered the endgame.

#Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition @6p - Played with just the regulars which is sort of rare. Our scenario ended in no betrayer (which is actually really shocking) but a sort of cooperative boss battle against a really tough AI character. No spoilers but we managed to kill the boss and only lost one player in the process. His sacrifice will be remembered.

We have a once-a-month special meetup that runs for 8 hours. We had decided on a game of #Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition and I prepared by watching a few how to play videos all week. We got to the event and setup a 4 player game before finding out that we were missing multiple decks of cards that made the game unplayable. So we had to pack it up after about an hour of setup. Instead we played:

#Castles of Mad King Ludwig @4p - First play. It's very similar to a game I own, #Suburbia. I picked up some goal cards for food rooms which happened to coincide with one of the community goals for most square feet of food rooms. I setup a bunch of high scoring rooms but almost never got a chance to score well for them. The teacher said that about half the deck contained basement cards so I prepared for it but only about a total of 4 basement tiles ever appeared. After endgame scoring, I was tied for first with the tiebreaker being most square feet. I managed to squeak out a win by only 50 square feet. I didn't really like the spacial puzzle element of this and still prefer the straight strategic placement element of Suburbia.

#Tiny Epic Galaxies @4p - We finally included #Tiny Epic Galaxies: Beyond the Black Expansion. It was a little touch-and-go initially but once we got going everyone seemed to enjoy the expansion. It does complicate a pretty simple game but it's a good level of complication. My only real complaint is that the endgame trigger is still only 21 points when it seems like they could have upped that by a few points since there's more ways to get points now. I did horribly after not being able to roll ANY economy dice after over 10 turns and ended in last place. It was actually pretty ridiculous after a while that I could not roll a single one.

#Love Letter @3p - We lost a player and needed a quick last game before our venue closed. I again got very unfortunate cards (was forced to use a Prince on myself with the Princess as my other card) so I ended up in last again.