This blog does seem to have turned into more of a boardgames blog than a wargames one, but I make no apology for that. I enjoy playing games and currently I'm finding more opportunities to play boardgames with family and friends than I am to get out any miniatures. Any game is better than no game, after all.
Anyway, you may remember that last year I backed a kickstarter for a boardgames called The Gardens, which I liked not just because it looked like a straightforward game, but was also designed locally and which has a local theme (I'm counting Sydney as 'local' here which, relatively speaking for most of you, it is).
Anyway, it arrived today, and whilst I've had a look through what's in the box I haven't had chance to play it yet. However as one of the stretch goals I got a copy of A Walk In The Park, which is a small roll and write game with a similar theme; taking a walk through the Sydney Royal Botanic Garden.
The game comes with a couple of hundred color playsheets, some pencils and a special dice.The aim is to draw paths on the map linking up as many key landmarks as possible and accumulate the highest score you can.
The dice has five pathway symbols on it and one with an ibis on it (or bin-chicken, as we like to call them here). With each roll you have to fill in one of the 25 squares. Either you draw in a path hoping to get them to connect up, or you put a bin-chicken in the a square, which then blocks it from having paths, but gives you possible scoring options later.
And here's a my finished game. I failed to win by one point, despite six bin-chickens.
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