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A photo of the board game board sitting on a dining table. There are separate sections that look like rooms in the Taskmaster house, each with a pile of cards on them: "Living Room Tasks", "Lab Tasks", "Kitchen Tasks", "Garden Tasks", and then two at the bottom that are "Secret Tasks" and "Final Tasks". In the middle are the little self portrait boards that you draw your face on (we were playing in teams of two hence why there are two people on each board).

This afternoon we went over to a friend's place and played Taskmaster: The Boardgame! It's actually surprisingly well done, we really enjoyed it. You definitely need to be playing in a house that's got a bunch of stuff in it though, I don't think it would have worked very well at ours place, haha. Some of the tasks included "Make the smallest sandwich", and a two-part one that started with "Draw an outline of your hand" and then when everyone was done, "Turn the outline into a self portrait". We didn't do any of the "garden tasks" because it was raining, so hopefully next time we play the weather is better and we can see what's involved in those!

Posted on 28 June 2026, 17:54

A photo of a dining room table with the game board and cards around it. On the very outer section of the board are a bunch of people who have invented something or made scientific discoveries, then directly inside of that is (not in order) their inventions. Then inside THAT is a hexagonal ring that you move around, inside which there is a THIRD section that involves three concentric circles, and the inner two are raised higher on a plastic circular ring that sits inside the middle of the game board. The cards that are sitting next to the board have the inventors on it, then there are smaller cards, some of which you can trade to other players, and the whole thing is just bizarre from a gameplay perspective.

Tonight we went over to a friend's place and played Beyond 2000: The Boardgame! (For the non-Australians, there was a TV show called Beyond 2000 that was a staple of our elder Millennial childhoods, it was basically an educational science and technology show about new technologies and scientific discoveries.)

Apparently at some point someone decided to make a board game out of it, but it was weird. It was part Trivial Pursuit but had all these extra elements as you get further in like being able to steal cards from other players or join forces with them, and they all felt really disconnected from each other, like they'd come up with three different ideas for games but decided they should mush them all together. The facts were interesting but man, we're not going to be playing that again. 😅

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Posted on 5 October 2025, 23:04

A photo taken above our dining table of the Pictionary board and @yayKM in the middle of drawing something. The board itself is long and thin with an almost snake-like pattern on it, divided into squares.

The sixteen year-old is over for a weekend visit and we played a couple of excellent (and slightly modified to account for the fact that there were only three of us) games of Pictionary tonight. 👍🏻

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Posted on 18 November 2023, 22:23

A photo of a finished game of Carcassonne. It consists of a bunch of square tiles with medieval castles, roads, and churches on them, with green grass in between. Normally there'd be a bunch of little coloured wooden people on it to signify who has controlled what in terms of scoring points.

A photo of a game of King of Tokyo. This is much less involved, there's three cutouts of monsters standing upright and a small board with a cartoon version of the coastline of Tokyo and its buildings, plus a number of cards with cartoony artwork on them.

We went over to @oysta@oysta.au's for board games tonight!

First was a four-player game of Carcassone, which is the first time I've played it physically, which I won 62-48-43-39 (though forgot to take a photo of the board before the scoring was done), and two three-player games of King of Tokyo which we'd not even heard of before but was quite fun.

@oysta@oysta.au won both games of King of Tokyo, the first one wasn't even close thanks to a whole bunch of ridiculously good dice rolling, but the second came down to the absolute wire between him and @yayKM and it really could have gone either way.

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Posted on 19 May 2023, 22:51

A photo of a completed game of Scrabble.

It's Saturday night and we definitely know how to party!

Much closer game than last one, I won 326 to 305.

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Posted on 15 April 2023, 21:19

A photo of the end game state of a Scrabble board.

And tonight we continued with the board games by playing Scrabble for the first time in... I'm not even sure how many years. I won 312 to 253, though was extremely helped by getting both the only Q and the only Z.

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Posted on 25 February 2023, 22:17

Munchkin!

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Posted on 29 August 2020, 21:11

A photo of a Trivial Pursuit board and pieces on a table.

Now that the COVID-19 restrictions are being loosened here a bit, tonight we went over to see some friends for dinner for the first time in about three months! After dinner we broke out the 2005 edition of Trivial Pursuit they have, and I can report that it hasn't changed from the 80s one with the amount of "Who the hell even is this person" questions, haha.

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Posted on 6 June 2020, 23:04