Games from NASAGA

One of the best parts of NASAGA is the opportunity to play board/card games for entertainment rather than learning.    This year I owe thanks to Scott ( Nicholson) and Greg … between them, they brought a good supply (I estimate they had at least 60 games between the two of them).

Of course we only played a small fraction of those games, and I do not remember all that we played, but here are a few of them.

‍Tsuro (designed by Tom McMurchie, published in North America by Calliope games) is a lovely abstract tile game with an interesting argument between competition and cooperation.  While Ta Yu remains my all-time favourite tile game, Tsuro is quite different and it does offer a couple of benefits… 1) it can play with up to eight players and 2) it is in print.

We played rapid games of Tutankhamen (designed by Reiner Knizia, published in North America by Out of the Box) and Sahne* (designed by Jeffrey Allers, published in North America by Winning Moves) which were probably 15 minutes each.  Both are set-building games, but they act very differently.  Each of them is a good group game, and  I think the Egyptian game will work especially well with kids (they will also have fun with the set-up).

*the full name is “…aber bitte mit Sahne ” meaning “…but please, with whipped cream”)