And here is my #BGStats grid for April in its full 4x4 glory.

We’re continuing to enjoy #WelcomeToTheMoon and, whilst most of the others are regulars, this month we pulled in some old favourites that hadn’t been played for a while:

#ThanosRising we’re too good at this coop game now and it’s got a bit boring
#Ghostel kind of overstays its welcome
#ForbiddenIsland we are still terrible at this coop though, which is more enjoyable.

Adventures 3&4 of our #WelcomeToTheMoon campaign last night. Not going to spoil anything but the changes to the rules that one of them gave us, which actually made it easier, managed to totally confuse me. It all worked out ok in the end though.

And, since my brain was definitely running at half speed, we plumped for #PatchworkDoodle over Cartographers for a change but I decided to make a map anyway!

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We got to the eighth, and last, adventure of #WelcomeToTheMoon last night. One of those where it’s easier to play than to understand the instructions! Once we worked out that, with two players, we just had to swap sheets after each turn and our initials would work perfectly well as “insignia” it all made a lot more sense.

Now we’re going to start over again and use the campaign mode this time. It’s nice that there is still a lot of value in the box!

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Yesterday’s #BoardGames included two attempts at #WelcomeToTheMoon adventure 7, which felt simpler than previous ones but my opponent system errored out leaving us with very low scores in both games - we thought we’d do better second time but although the game went on longer the scores were much the same.

It was nice to get two ties though! At #NewYorkZoo we both filled our zoos up on the same action. And at #Clever4Ever we tied too - though both pretty awful “room for improvement” scores.

It’s @BGStatsApp day! 32 plays of 20 games is more than I expected. March is usually a good month but this year it didn’t seem like we got through as many games at #AireCon as we usually do, but most of them were pretty good.

I’m continuing enjoying playing through #WelcomeToTheMoon and #Everdell is a new fave.

And at the other end I need to remember that I rarely enjoy the likes of #Secrets and #CockroachPoker - bluffing is not my thing!

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Tuesday night #BoardGames included
- #WelcomeToTheMoon in which we reached Adventure 6: The one where the humans make the moon inhabitable with numerous virus outbreaks. This was a definite step up in length and complexity from the previous episodes.
- and #Cartographers where it was nice to play with my friends scoring cards from the Heroes box for a change from the base set
- also forget to photograph #Everdell but my friend enjoyed it as I hoped she would!

I realised I’d only beaten the AI on the first adventure of #WelcomeToTheMoon so, since all my real life board game opponents were incapacitated last night, I tried again against Alexei on adventures 2 & 3. Both successes! Hurray!🏆 There are six more difficult levels of AI after this to go against though! 😳 #BoardGames #SoloBoardGames

Tuesday night #BoardGames included
- our first duet play of #WingspanAsia - the map board is a nice addition that adds a bit more strategy and the cards are more wordy & generous than the base game
- two plays of #WelcomeToTheMoon - one of which I did great on and the other terribly
- and our first proper non-demo play of #InTheFootstepsOfDarwin which is, like Wingspan, a nice calm nature game where you get distracted reading about the animals - not a complaint.

Adventure 4 of #WelcomeToTheMoon saw us mining for rubies and pearls. I didn’t have time to play this solo before board game night but it was easy enough to pick up which is good. My friend continued her run of beating me by a couple of points; I thought the score difference was greater than that so I was happy to only narrowly lose. #BoardGames

February wasn’t the best gaming month and I didn’t manage to fill the 3x3 grid even but it was perfectly pleasant and I have no complaints. My top two #WelcomeToTheMoon and #Clever4Ever were both new to me. Loving them both.

March should be much busier as it includes the #AireCon board game con. One of the highlights of my year. 🎉 🎲 🃏

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My first two player game of #TerraformingMarsAresExpedition last night and I really liked the flow of the game. I started just by building credit economy with investments and building a hotel and ended up with a national park on Mars with birds and trees. Nice story!

Then I tried to build greenhouses on the moon too in #WelcomeToTheMoon - I’m impressed I filled the whole grid in.

Both games were narrow losses - only a couple of points in both of them - and both great fun!

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Teaching myself Adventure 3: The Colony of #WelcomeToTheMoon ready to teach it to others tomorrow. It was simpler than I thought it was going to be - and I thought I was doing ok. Then I added it all up and I found that I had got absolutely slaughtered by the solo opponent Alexei, so maybe not so simple after all!

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Two #BoardGames played right last night that I'd previously got wrong!

Mission #2 of #WelcomeToTheMoon I learnt solo at the weekend but cheated myself by putting numbers in before energy barriers.

And #Cartographers #FrozenExpanse where I explained it badly last time and my opponent used the scouted squares as anything squares thinking you just missed out on points that way. (This time we saw no monsters!)

Both games better when played with the correct rules. And I lost at both of them 😆

@emmahunneyball My copy of #WelcomeToTheMoon turned up too & I got it straight to the table to try out. I lost to Katherine as well. But it felt like I was miles behind and then my rocket started to fire off combos of finishing things and it was much closer than I thought it was going to be in the end.

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Ok, seit Ewigkeiten keine Brettspiele mehr beschafft. Jetzt für die Feiertage brauche ich was zum runter kommen. Also hab ich mir mal zwei neue Roll (Flip) & Writes gekauft.

#FleetTheDiceGame und #WelcomeToTheMoon. Da freu ich mich schon drauf. Alle auch im Solo-Modus spielbar und gleichzeitig gut für Familienabende zwischen den Jahren. ^__^

#Gaming #Brettspiele #MeTime #Familienzeit

#Brettspiel kann auf der Couch klappen. 😃 zumindest bei 'welcome to the moon' ging das gut. Mit Pappen als Unterlage zum Kritzeln und einer Kiste als Kartenunterlage. #WelcomeToTheMoon sieht langweilig aus, aber ist echt spannend. Auch wenn jeder seins macht, schnappt man sich gegenseitig Boni weg. Auch muss man ein Auge auf das Ende halten, wer ist schneller? Schaffe ich noch den Bonus hier oder lieber auf Nummer sicher?
Man hat so viel in der Hand und dadurch fühlt es sich nicht als Glücksspiel an.
Keine Analyseparalyse, sondern eine Strategie und kurzzeitige Abwägungen treffen ist angesagt. Ich hatte das Spiel echt unterschätzt.

Anyone played #WelcomeToTheMoon? It has eight adventures wrapped up in a campaign. I like it! #boardgames