I’ve always enjoyed my traditional board-gaming weekends with the Magnificent Seven. I have a group of friends from Longmont who used to get together fairly regularly for games, so I thought, why not make another tradition? I checked in with them back in January and suggested we all meet up in Montana for a long weekend. Everyone agreed, grabbed airline tickets, and counted down the months until the big event.
It happened this weekend: five of my good friends all flew from Colorado, and we cracked open the games. Six people can be tricky, because most games are targeted for three or four people. So at times we split up, like when Mark, Jay, and Mike played Dune Imperium while Brendan, Jason, and I spent an hour with Utu.
At other times we played “bigger” games, like this round of Power Grid.
Group games like Skull King, Coup, and even Cosmic Encounter were fun. We even play-tested a game Jay designed, and gave him some feedback.
It’s been a few years since I’ve seen these guys, and I sure miss them. I’m grateful they were all willing to make the trek to Montana for a few days. Naturally we decided to do it again next year.