Brit who collects clever board games preferably without dice, SCUBA instructor who makes a mean chilli and apple pie. Married, one daughter and a workshop. Life is good.

Gaming preferences lean toward edgy mechanics that encourage devious player initiative and interaction. Diplomacy, screwage and underhand opportunities seem favourite.

Over the last 10+ years of gaming I have developed a pathological hatred of most games with dice (exceptions; Perudo & War of the Ring). Similarly I have little time for games with a heavy card engine (Exceptions: St Petersburg & Verrater). Games with exclusive down time, excessive randomness and un-modifiable card draws are unlikely to see me play a second time.

According to Matthew Gray ( http://mkgray.com:8000/cgi/gamercluster2), this is me, an extreme Euro Economic Engine fiend;





Euro-1: Core Eurogames, like Puerto Rico.
Euro-2:Family Eurogames, typically lighter, like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride.

Euro-3: Heavy Eurogames, such as El Grande or Tigris & Euphrates.

Ameri-1:New style American games, typically with lots of plastic miniatures.

Ameri-2: Wargames.


Cooperation games are good for one day of the year, 5th November.

My backlog of unplayed games is disgraceful. I apologise.

One day I will finish my board game (19 years so far).

When I am King of the World, I will make it compulsory for all players to congratulate the winner at the end of the game and mean it. I will also make it compulsory to pronounce Binoculars, 'BinoKly-ers'.