This week was definitely a better week for attendance,
although it’s definitely turned into a group for the people I can persuade in
my team, plus one person who still attends from a different team in the
company. It’s time to re-advertise the group and see if anyone new wants to
come along and can do so on a Monday evening. But, for this week we were six,
which is the most people for a long while, so let’s take a look at this week in
my work board game group.
Week 10
Number of Attendees:
6
Games Played:
Codenames, Dixit
The Challenges
The length of time
people will stay
I start board game group 6.30pm - 30 minutes after work
officially finishes, which means we often start playing at 6.45pm. This week,
everyone essentially left by just after 8pm. We did fit 3 games of Codenames into that time and a short
game of Dixit, but I just really want
to spend a longer evening gaming to justify my effort in staying after work
given that I probably live the furthest away from the office. I guess most
people just don’t see board gaming as their full evening activity or don’t want
to pay to eat food at the pub we play at, so I’m not sure how I can resolve
this unless I lock people into longer games.
The Successes
New people
This week, my partner, Amy, joined us for the first time.
Once again it’s definitely good to have a guaranteed extra person attending –
it just looks better to have a larger group and encourages people to stay and
keep playing games. However, I’m not really going to count Amy as a new
recruit. One of my close colleagues did come along for the first time though.
He’s always talked about playing Catan with
friends and family but always backs out of coming to my game nights at the last
minute. It was nice to have him along, but I will be surprised if he becomes a
regular, even though I think he had a good time.
Fun times
Codenames was definitely the hit of the evening. Even though
people found it a little difficult to grasp during rules explanation, it’s easy
to understand once playing the game and after we were done once, everyone
wanted to try again and we eventually played a best of three. In particular,
our new player was amazing at giving clues, which is always a nice bonus for
the new person to feel like they’re on a level playing field with the other
people at the table.
Lessons for Next
Week
Longer games
This is the same as I said last week, but I do seem to be
stuck in a cycle of playing a couple of light games or party games, then
everybody leaves. I need to break this cycle and only use the fillers or high
player count party games when I need to wait for more people to join the group.
When I think everyone is present we should jump straight into something a
little more challenging and I’ll just have to hope that doesn’t scare people
away!
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