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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Mostly not too bad. It’s pretty clever how they hide a bunch of the wiring under the tea house. You have to kind of braid a bunch of it and shove it under a little lego hide along with the connection board. That was tricky. I made my daughter do the braiding.

    This is the second set I’ve done a light kit for (the first was the Daily Bugle set. Talk about jumping into the deep end…) so I kind of knew how the wiring worked with the bricks at this point. The instructions were pretty good and the wiring was pretty good as well. It didn’t come with a power source and it wants a usb power source instead of a battery pack or something, but I had some old usb power blocks running around, so that was fine.








  • Got in a play of Tiger and Dragon and Cosmoctopus.

    Tiger and Dragon is a larger box game from Oink Games. I like the slightly puzzly nature of this one and playing with the tiles.

    Cosmoctopus is gonna take a couple more plays before I get a good opinion of it. The table presence is fun, but I almost can’t imagine a world in which I don’t always play the “fast” game and just start everyone with 3 tentacles. This thing seems like it runs long. We definitely had a couple questions about the rules as we were going through.






  • I did back the Kickstarter and we just got access to the files the other day. (Pretty quickly after the close) It’s a print and play game so when it’s available it should just be the files. I’m not certain when it will be available to everyone but I wouldn’t think it should be too long. I also know they’re planning on adding more maps in the future for folks that backed/buy it. Sorry I don’t have more specific info.




  • You’re going on a series of four “hikes”. You roll to determine how many grid/elevation lines you can cross in a turn. You have to end your turn on a waypoint. If you can’t, you can rest and earn a water bottle which will let you add one additional line cross in a later turn. The different spots enable scoring/abilities. So by the end you’ve wandered over the map and hopefully accrued some points.