Boardgames

 Spent day catching up with friends I'd not seen in far too long, watching seals and the sea at Flamborough Head, and playing several boardgames. First up was Saboteur, where you play as hard-working dwarves trying to mine to the gold, unless you're the saboteur who wants to stop them getting it for....reasons? I'm generally terrible both at being a traitor and at working out who else is, but this wasn't too stressful, not least because sometimes you just don't have the cards to do much anyway. Then we played Ticket to Ride: Europe, and while I didn't manage my usual aim of getting everything in one continous route, I did finish several tickets and ended up winning. Next up was Mysterium - a game I'd not played before but had been wanting to try for ages. Similar to Dixit by same publisher you need to kind of get on the same wavelength as the person playing the ghost who is handing your medium picture clues to solve a murder. It was really good. We finished with the ludicrously good fun Top Gun Strategy Game, where you play beach volleyball in order to be better in dogfights. Obviously. I struggled a bit with visualising the movement in the dogfights and planning ahead, but still managed to win every beach volleyball match and overall. Pretty sure I'd not be as good at either in real life.