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Budding board gamer without a game group.
🍷makes everything better
Theme drives what I play
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📍🇨🇦 Toronto

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As of today I have been on instagram for 2 years!
That’s 2 years of board games
That’s 2 years of new friends
That’s 2 years of sharing the love of the hobby
That’s 2 years of sharing our games and experiences with games new to us and old
In this carousel my friends and I decided to celebrate by sharing games we like to play at 2
Doesn’t matter if the player count says 2 players only or if there is a fan made way to play it at 2 or if the advertised best player count is different at 2

Sometimes it’s nice to hang with one person at a time to game together whether its cooperatively or against each other

Here’s to 2 years and many more future years of board gaming

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Learn and Play Recap just dropped!

Thank you to @changelinggaming for inviting me to another fantastic event last week. It was a ton of fun and meeting Sean @kidstablebg and Chris @chriswestmaas and playing the amazing Lairs. @twilightboardgamecafe was the perfect venue as well!

It was also wonderful to play and hangout with @meeple.mike, @gamesandgrapes, and @boardgaymergirl during the event. We have to play again soon!

If you're in Toronto/GTA, go check out @changelinggaming for more amazing events.

#learnandplay #boardgamemeetup #event #boardgames #dungeoncrawler

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Yesterday I popped over to @twilightboardgamecafe for a Lairs learn-to-play event hosted by @changelinggaming!

Super cool to meet the designer of Lairs, @chriswestmaas, and got to play games of both Lairs and Café Baras, from @kidstablebg!

Lairs is a very cool head-to-head game of both building a dungeon and navigating your opponent’s dungeon. Race to find treasures, monsters, and the exit!

Café Baras is a chill little café builder where you’ll be adding drinks, food, and décor to your appropriately punny-named café, trying to entice as many customers and regulars to score big!

It was a fantastic way to spend a Saturday afternoon – good games, good food, and good company!

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇸🇬🇧 34°Merano WineFestival dal 7 - 11 november 2025 Merano (Bolzano)

Senatore vini -Ciro ' Marina - Crotone

In the heart of beautiful Calabria, in the land of “the oldest wine in the world”, Cirò Marina, a family passionate about viticulture for generations. The story of Senatore Vini begins at the beginning of the century, when great-great-grandfather Giuseppe Sculco and later great-great-grandfather Francesco Senatore, with their modest winery located in “Corfu Vecchiu,” ventured into the world of wine.

In the ’30s, when the region was still recovering from the difficulties of the time, his great-grandfather Antonio courageously decided to give the company a boost by planting new vineyards, laying the foundations for what today represents the green heart of the family's winemaking tradition. Subsequent generations continued to cultivate the family legacy with dedication, particularly Antonio and Franci, and finally Raffaele, who created the new winery in Cirò Marina. The new generation emerged with enthusiasm and passion for viticulture: the three Antonio, Emilio and Vito became an integral part of the company, bringing new life and new ideas

The company owns 32 hectares for a production of approximately 180,000 bottles.

Sole Senator 2016 IGP

A unique wine, for reading, meditation, companionship... Produced from selected grapes in the best vineyards, hand-picked and overripe on the plant with a high sugar concentration.

🍇100% Merlot, espalier screws on spurred cordon on limestone soil at 220 m above sea level, refines 13 medium in barriques and then in steel. 14.5% vol.

The color is a beautiful medium garnet with bright ruby reflections on the nose comes scents of morello cherry, wild strawberry, dogwood, cinnamon, star anise< rosemary and cumin finish.
The sip is wide and fresh, with a fair acidity, tannin in the smoothing phase but pleasant, the tail is thin, slightly sinuous and long, with slight herbaceous notes, calcareous flavour, morello cherry, blackberry, marjoram, peanut, and a pomegranate finish.

❤️EMOTION 7.8

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I don’t just speak on ABUNDANCE…I live it ♥️

Huge THANK YOU to my girl @dentfit for bringing us all together to make this a special birthday for me.

My heart is still OVERFLOWING with love 💋🎈

#birthdaycelebrations #consciousliving #abundance #purpose #soulwork #godswork #innerwork #selfleadership #birthdayreflections #june18 #gemini #40thbirthday

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Time to visit the Scottish Highlands, discover castles, and wonder if you'll spot the Loch Ness Monster.

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Glenmore Chronicles 2 is the superior version to the original as it comes with a whole bunch of modules you can pick and play for any game. I originally tried this game years ago attempting a solo mode variant and just didn't work out too well. However, it had a rondel tile selection mechanic that was interesting to me, so I was glad I got to try it again.

Each turn, you'll be moving your Lil Scottish buddy around the main tile board in order to land on a tile you wish to utilize to expand your personal territory. You'll grab the tile and place it next to a tile in your personal area. Depending on the tile, certain actions will pop off.

The tile and all tiles connected to it have the opprotunity to produce which include gaining resources (that youll have to keep on the tile producing the item), moving clans folks around your territory tiles, or trading resources for other resources. Some tiles will also give you access to famous Scottish people or landmark cards that give an added effect.

There is also a whole territory board where you can expand your clan markers to get access to more actions or scoring opportunities. At the end of each round, you'll score for clans, people at your castle, beer barrels, famous folk collected, etc. The person with the most overall points wins.

Now that is the very basic part of the game, but there are numerous small modules that change the game just slightly and also give new scoring opportunities.

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In Conclusion: we played with 3 of the easier modules to include for a 3-player game, and I really enjoyed it, I think. Again, probably not for solo, but it's an enjoyable game that gives a little bit more to tile laying games I'd think of that has similar "extra bits" to a Carcassonne-like formula. I'd easily play this one again, and the production for them game was great.

#boardgames #bgg #boardgamesofinstagram #boardgamegeek #boardgamenight #gamenight #boardgamephotography #boardgameaddict #boardgaymer #gaymer #tabletopgames

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Slide 1: Cool games for the weekend! Slide 2: Cool pals for the weekend! Here’s the rundown:

Innovation (@asmadigames): Probably one of my favourite 2P games in my rotation right now; I just love the variation from game to game. Would love to play on BGA if anyone is interested.

Kinfire Delve (@incredibledreamstudios): Returning to the small boxes after many a romp in Kinfire Chronicles makes me appreciate all the small details in the world building between the two games. A very fun co-op card game!

Three Sisters (@25thcenturygames): I finally dusted this one off the shelf, and I’m really glad I did. It seems like there are lots of interesting decisions and varied strategies, and I’m eager to try it solo next! Bring it on, farmer Edith!

Sea Change (@insideupgames): A new sea-themed trick taking game has hit my table, and the gimmick of this one is the fact that the trump suit can change MID-HAND! I’m interested to see how it fares at higher player counts, especially the team variant!

Arboretum (@renegade_game_studios): This innocuous game about trees remains cutthroat as ever. The reveal at the end to show who has the right to score different trees is immensely tense and is a fantastic climax to an amazing card game.

Startups (@oinkgms): Similar to Arboretum, this game has a fun reveal at the end to allow for sneak majorities in a company, keeping you on your toes!

Wild Tiled West (@direwolf): The only game we played that isn’t mine, but I fear will soon NEED to be. Wild Tiled West is a cute western themed polyomino drafting game with a lot of different minigames with the tiles.

Fishing (@riograndegames): Huh, I guess this game does show up everywhere I go, eh?

SETI (@czech_games_edition): Thrilled that I got another game of SETI in. I tried incorporating more scanning in my strategy this time, and it worked out well!

Dale of Merchants (@snowdale_design): This unique deckbuilding race was incredibly close, with almost all players just needing one more turn to get the win! We had a fun combination of animals too!

Scout: A classic end-of-night game of Scout never disappoints!

Anything look fun? Let me know what you got played this weekend!

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A few weekends ago I attended my 4th Breakout Con and it is such a wonderful convention! Put on every March in Toronto, ON, Breakout Con is one of my favourite “playing games” conventions. 🥰👏🏻

I get to spend time playing board games with local friends, meeting new locals & Board Game Garden community members and attend the bring & buy! The bring & buy is the best and I always have such a great time perusing for great board game deals! This year I found myself a copy of La Granja: Deluxe Master Set for $80! It was even sleeved! 👏🏻❤️

Some of my standout plays were Galileo Galilei by @pinktroubadour , Endeavor: Deep Sea by @burntislandgames , Explorers Of Navoria by @drandagames and Circadians: First Light by @garphillgames 😊👏🏻

I played so many amazing games and I am so excited for the next Breakout Con already! See you next year?!

PS. I NEED to find a copy of Oh! Meow! Bow! A shedding games with the cutest animal cards! 🐶🐱

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Thank-you to @dogfishpubgrill for having us perform this evening. We'll see next on June 21st July 22nd July 19, September 20 & October 18th . Mark those dates on your calendar if you would like to come out and see us Live and in #livingcomedor

Former Oliophonic lead guitarist @phillaviola brings his new band to Dogfish Pub. RIP⚰️ #oliophonic

#coversong #soulmusic #coverband #torontomusicscene #femalevocalist #scarboroughbluffs #elusivesouls

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Another @breakoutcon flew by just like that, and I’m missing it already from my little cubicle at work! I was so stoked to be surrounded by good games and great people, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it!

Located in the heart of Toronto, Breakout Con is a just half an hour away from me, so there’s no reason for me not to show up! This was my fourth Breakout Con ever, and it has become a convention staple in my yearly schedule.

Breakout is a gaming focused convention for me – it feels like a getaway vacation to just try as many games as I can while surrounded by people who love gaming as much as I do. And wow, did I get to game this weekend! According to my bgstats app, I logged 21 plays over these three days! From the lightest little dexterity games to some big chonkers, I got a whole spectrum of gaming in, and I couldn’t be happier!

Of course, the games are nothing without the company, and it was fantastic to get to see my familiar friends as well as meet in person some new friends I had only talked to online. Some of my closest gaming friends I’ve met AT Breakout in previous years, and I can only hope that trend continues! ❤️

Another big draw of Breakout is the Bring and Buy Auction, a massive room filled with games looking for new owners. Both selling games and buying games is stress free, as sellers just need to preregister their lots and leave them in the room, and buyers just need to walk around and snag whatever catches their eye! I was lucky to have made quite a pretty penny shuttling games to new homes, and came home with new games for myself in Port Royal, Startups, and Marvel Remix (for very, very, very cheap!)

New friends and new games. What more could I ask for? Thanks again to @breakoutcon for the best gaming weekend in Toronto, and I’ll see you all there next year!

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Board Gaming! If you know me you know gaming is my #1 hobby, but maybe not why it is. There are 2 big points I like to make as to why I love gaming so much.

1, the sociability of the hobby. Half the fun of playing board games is physically playing with other people, having that social time around the table and just sharing the fun with others. I've also met some super cool people through it. I most likely wouldn't have known of/met any of these folks if it wasn't for board gaming.
(HM not pictured: @blackpotionsatx )

2, anybody can (and should😂) play board games! With thousands and thousands of games out there I will always say that there is a game for everybody. Whether that means different complexities, different themes, different mechanisms, etc. For example I asked all my board game peeps to show me their 3 favorite games (either of all time or at the moment) and keen eyes will notice something. How many different games there are!

There are so many good games out there and so many great people to play them with so get out there and game it up! And thank you to everyone who participated in the post!

#boardgames #boardgamesofinstagram #gaming #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming

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