? 6 min read Yes yes. I intentionally used the word FAIL to illicit a visceral reaction of fear and disgust in you. Otherwise known as click bait. So let's not talk about whooo called whooo a failure and let's remind ourselves about the creative and quite necessary art of Board Game Rules Explanations! Yay! Holiday season is almost upon us, and we may be thinking about becoming jolly and teaching our families a new board game or two, after our festive roast lunch of choice; AND on Mondays and Tuesdays at NoBoG! Below is a list of 12 'Don'ts' I have conco ..read more

? 8 min read It's Game Night once again! Plus, Take That has gotten the band back together for one night of unbridled back-stabbery, and 'board game sanctioned' revenge. Yes, strap yourself in for the brutal, beautiful and recently re-released Spiel des Jahres winner from Nointy-Nointy-Six - El Grande. For the purposes of this post, all player's names have been changed to protect the King. We must protect the King! It was a cold December Tuesday evening and the pub was packed to the rafters with 30+ NoBoGlins hungry for entertainment. They got it. We all got it. After ..read more

'Terror Below' with Duncan ? 3 min read Tis the season to be jolly, and boy do we have a REASON to be jolly this December. Duncan from the one and only Games Room in Norwich has kindly donated a brand new board game to NoBoG, for us to give away to one of you lovely NoBoGlins. So in typical board gaming fashion, we have decided to hold a 'gaming challenge' to decide who gets it. Get ready for.... BOARD GAME BINGO!! Starting this evening, for the next 3 Tuesdays in total, you will be invited to pick up a NoBoG Board Game Bingo card and pen from Ian. Each card, if handed back ..read more

? 10 min read It's not like we, the Townsfolk, haven't seen travelling bands of (so-called) heroes before. After all, many of us rely heavily upon their lucrative trade. It's just that these ones in particular, more than any others, had thought so highly of themselves. In the not so distant past, yes, we may have suffered minor raids by The Dragon of the Northern Mountains, but nothing we couldn't easily recover from in time. With each new group of 'dragon horde coveting' strangers came its challenges. Yet, when they eventually built up the courage to  travel north and 'save' our t ..read more

Hi! Game Night is 'Back for Good'! We're not going to be 'Up All Night', but we are hopeful that it 'Could Be Magic'. For the purposes of this post, all player's names have been changed to protect the victims of sharks and pirates. This, was our first Tuesday evening game night of September, and it brought to us another 25(ish) NOBOGlins. After briefly catching up with Gary, I decided that I was going to join in with them and play Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest. Never played it before. Heard a lot of good things. We're all going to be&nb ..read more

It seems a long time ago now [ed: yes it is Ian, better late than never I suppose], when 6 Noboglins bravely decided it would be fun to try out some different dexterity games. First up was a sneaky game played by early arrivals on the Tuesday, a recently arrived Kickstarter game in the Itten games 'funbrick' package. 5 different games, with this one a game arguably the standout game in the campaign, but does it live up to that promise? Viking See-saw follows a design that's been done before, of balancing a see-saw, by adding items and trying to avoid it tipping over to the other side. What s ..read more

Welcome once again, to our 'What Did You Bring?' segment! For the purposes of this post, player names have been changed to protect the innocent and the murdered. In Fearsome Floors we have been kidnapped by a wicked scientist and fed to their monsters! Our entire party has been dumped at the entrance to dingy dungeon hallway filled with stone blocks and slippery pools of blood (fresh from the last party of guests?). The only hope of escape is a thin slither of day-light in the distance and the fact that we have protection in numbers. So, I don't need to run faster than the monster ..read more

Norwich games expo – What’s taking your fancy? This Saturday sees the *first of what hopefully will be a regular games convention in Norwich So in this **unpaid preview, what exciting things are on offer? Doors open at 10am and for those dropping off games in the Bring and buy, this may well be a first port of call. Hopefully not the mile-long queue of the UK games expo.... Will you be dropping games off to make space for other games to replace them, or browsing what’s on offer to find the grail game you’ve always wanted, or a bargain or three?   There are stalls open from 10am – 6pm, c ..read more

For the purposes of this post, peoples names have been changed to protect the innocent and treasures of both national and local importance. So, every now and again (couple of times a month) I get drinking and discussing board games, designers and gaming groups with King Charles III. What will probably surprise you more than the fact that our monarch enjoys a board game or 10, is that he wears his crown at the pub! He says it gets him a greater number of drink offers, but more importantly, way more interesting chats with random strangers. It works for me; so I buy him whiskey and we chat ..read more

Welcome once again, to our 'What Did You Bring?' segment! For the purposes of this (review) post, player names have been changed to protect the innocent and the mummified. RAAAAA!! The Sun God Ra is the bringer of life, light and an immensely fun auction game. As a devoted worshipper of Ra, it is our job to enrich ancient Egyptian civilisation through Art, Religion, Astronomy, Writing, Agriculture and the construction of epoch spanning Monuments, all in his name.  Don't worry though, you don't have to do all that in a single hour at the pub. Just shout 'Ra' a lot during the game and ..read more