A minimalist blog, with a pretentious title, about strategy board games.
I was just idly browsing eBay and bought Can’t Stop on a whim. It cost me £10 including postage, from a lady in Essex. It’s mostly only available from the US, so I jumped at the chance to get it from Britain.
There used to be lots of session reports about this one on Spielfrieks, but they have dried up completely. I don’t normally enjoy games as simple as this, but the guys loved Jungle Speed, so this might be a success too.
My friend Julian and I love Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective and West End Adventures so much that we decided to buy the full family of Sleuth games (except the Jack the Ripper chase game) between us. They are all out of print, but they are still available from Chessex if you email them directly. We have bought:
Including surface mail, that comes to £37.
We also bought Gumshoe over eBay for £12.50, including postage. It looks superb. There are maps of San Fransisco, newspaper clippings, autopsy reports, fingerprint records, mugshots etc etc.
These games are great, they are reasonably priced and we don’t want them to go out of stock and have to hunt for them all on eBay.