So far the month of October is back up to 10 games played. But the only major game so far was one of Ticket to Ride. And with all the days at home for the Jewish holidays, I consider it a slow month. Hopefully, I’ll get in some good games this weekend. Kemp Mill Game Day is at my house this Saturday night.

In the meantime, I did play a couple of games of It’s Alive, two-player with Ido. He came over late on Shabbat afternoon. I’ve played the prototype before and wasn’t expecting two-player to work very well, but it did. Two quick games. I enjoyed it very much. At the risk of being labeled a shill for daring to speak publicly about my colleague’s game, I think I’ll post a review on BGG.

Also played some Flea Circus with the girls. Barrie doesn’t like it any more, but Julia is still a big fan. These days, I can’t ever seem to get them to agree on a game, so we often end up with something like one game of Flea Circus followed by one game of Ticket to Ride. I like Flea Circus. Barrie’s doing better at choosing the best cards to play. Julia finally understands and remembers the rules, but she’s still pretty much playing random cards. I posted an article in the strategy forum on BGG explaining how to throw the game. We’ll see how that goes over. It’s the first strategy posting for Flea Circus!