Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 8^th July 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Due to a recent change of hands, the pub is NOT doing food at the moment.

This week, the “Feature Game” will be the the shiny new game, Emberleaf (rules, rules summary, short review, three minute overview video, longer how-to-play video).  This is a “card dancing” (explanation video) and tile placement game from the same stable as The Isle of Cats.

– Image from kickstarter.com, adapted by boardGOATS

And speaking of dancing…

Jeff and Joe were at the village festival watching the dog show.  Unusually, as well as the usual categories of “waggiest tail” and “cutest puppy”, there was also “best dancer”.  Thinking he might be in with a chance, Jeff entered his three-legged spaniel puppy, Elvis.

Joe was was a bit puzzled as Elvis was really a very happy dog and really quite cute.  So he asked, “Jeff, why did you choose to enter Elvis in the “best dancer” category, when he’s such a waggy dog and really very cute.  With his, um, “impairment”, surely he’d be in with a better chance in one of the other categories?”

“Nah,” replied Jeff, “He’s gonna win the dancing category, because all the other dogs have two left feet…”