Choo choooooo! And we're off! All four of us gals settled down to a train across Europe game, trying to outwit each other in playing a game which involved chope-ing (monopolising) train routes across Europe (see photo for our game in progress). Yours truly won but in a group of beginners it was purely by chance rather than strategy.
It was our first time at Settler's Cafe, a boardgame cafe in Singapore near Clarke Quay on a lazy Saturday afternoon when I was bored and I ended up rounding up a bunch of friends to try this out. It turned out to be a lot of fun and I liked the whole set up of a fairly plain and simple cafe, with game masters in attendance at the press of a bell to explain rules and otherwise take orders for snacks and drinks.
I went back again for their member's night which also turned out to be a lot of fun but I think that was partly because I had a ready friend there in my cousin who has been mad about boardgames ever since his teenage years. So integrating into the group was made easy for me. Definitely a good scene for anyone interested in boardgames.
