Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 6^th May, at the Horse and Jockey pub in Stanford-in-the-Vale.  As usual, we will be playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.

This week the “Feature Game” will be Splendor which is a new game of chip-collecting and card development.  As it is a fairly simple game about gold and gemstones that is quick to teach and play and will give us the opportunity to decide what longer games we would like to play once everyone has arrived.

And talking of jewels…

Jeff and his friend, Joe, heard that the streets of Blackpool were paved with gold.  So, one afternoon they set out together to make their fortune.

As they got out of the car Joe saw a golden sovereign lying on the pavement.  Bending down to pick it up he said to Jeff, “Would you look at that!  We’ll be making our fortune in no time at all!!”

Jeff stopped him saying, “Leave it there for now, we can always start work tomorrow morning…”

The next meeting is on Tuesday 14^th May playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.

This week the “Feature Game” will be a card game that we haven’t played before called Saboteur.  This is a quick game where players are dwarves working together mining for gold, but the catch is that there is a saboteur in their midst…  We’ve chosen this game so that we can play something longer that is appropriate to the people who come.

And talking of dwarves…

It was Snow White’s birthday, so the the Seven Dwarves clubbed together to get her a camera as a present.  When she opened it she was thrilled with such a generous gift and happily took lots of pictures of the Dwarfs and their surroundings and the next day she took the film to be developed.

A week later she eagerly went to get the developed photos, but the shop assistant said the photos were not back from the processor yet.  Needless to say, she was very disappointed and started to cry.

The clerk, trying to console her, said, “Don’t worry, someday your prints will come.”

Next meeting is on Tuesday 27^th November playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.

The “Feature Game” will be Eketorp, where players build Viking strongholds upon the Swedish island of Öland.

And talking of Vikings…

A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his name missing from the town register. His wife insisted on complaining to the local civic official who apologized profusely saying, “I must have taken Leif off my census.”