I have often bemoaned the dryness of many modern games. Somebody on the web wrote "boardgames are just math made fun", and I answered that many boardgames are math made not fun. In such games, scores are no longer a reward for good play, but the entire games just consist of calculations. (1/X)
Fun game!
I do not consider them playful, and I often get bored by them quickly. I acknowledge there is a large target group for this kind of occupation, but I avoid those games unless I am in very good company. Now I was fortunate enough to have a copy of Jon Perry's Hot Streak brought to Essen ... (2/10)
Isn't that the entire genre of European board games? Make number go up?
