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After my last post got so much attention I feel amazed that so many people took time to read it. After all, I'm nobody here. Just a shy Finnish girl who likes to play boardgames.
I think I'm going to write more about our gaming with my sister-in-law, once we get some new games to the table with her. I now feel very inspired to try all those games people suggested for us to play.
In the meanwhile, this is going to be one of those really boring post with nothing interesting in it. I'm sorry for that.
My fiancé and I had been sick for many weeks and we hadn't done much else than stayed at home. So when last weekend came, we decided to go to Helsinki to buy some new games. Well, actually we had decided to buy a game, but ended up with several in the shopping bag.
The weather was nice on Saturday. We took a train to Helsinki, since we live in Vantaa and there is no boardgame stores here. It doesn't matter, because the train trip is only 20 minutes long. First we went to Fantasiapelit, to buy A Touch of Evil: The Supernatural Game , which had been on our wishlist for quite some time. Well, actually it was on my wishlist, but because of my begging, my fiancé looked into it and got excited as well.
We also got Small World: Tunnels from there, even though they had this stupid rule that you had to buy some other SW stuff to get that. But I explained that we already had all the expansions to SW. The sales clerk was really nice and gave us Tunnels despite the rule.
Now that we were really happy with our purchase, we decided to go to another store. Just in case there was something fun.
So we went to see what Lautapelit.fi had on their shelves.We wandered through the shelves for a while and finally we saw the new re-print of Evo. We hadn't really discussed about getting it, but on a whim we took it. We also got Saboteur because Lautapelit.fi had just released the big box edition with the expansion in it. Should be fun with the right group of people. I also bought Piece o' Cake which I had been drooling over for such a long time. I just don't get it why I hadn't bought it earlier. It was only 20e. We actually have played it 4 times since and what a blast it has been.
Just before we went to the counter to pay, my fiancé spotted Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game on the top shelf. I had shown him a video of that game like a week ago and it had stuck in his mind. We started discussing whether we could splurge a bit and buy that also. F&G is 85e here. But then we looked at the box and realised how huge it is. Wouldn't be nice to carry it around town. So we ended up leaving it on the shelf but instead after we got home we ordered it online with free shipping. All and all not so bad.
After our shopping spree we went home and on the way a guy in the train spotted that we had a bag from Lautapelit.fi and asked if we were some kind of geeks
Well, he said that in a good way. We ended up chatting a bit and it was quite nice. He was really interested in our games and he seemed astonished that such cool games existed. I hope it inspired him to go and buy some games for himself.
Now I have a lot of rulebooks to learn, so I guess I know how to spend all my free time. I hope you guys had a fun weekend too. I sure did
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