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Tea and Games
@teangames.bsky.social
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Casual weekend boardgamer. Dog lover. I'm just here for fun! I don't auto-follow.

My #boardgame YouTube is also just for fun. Cozy. Chill. https://youtube.com/@teaNgames
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It's a very boardgame-y kind of day. This morning Six Sojourns Kickstarter delivered🎉 (Box marked in upper right square of pic) and we left an in-progress game of Obsession on the table to go play games with the family. So that's overlapping games😆 #boardgames
Obsession in progress, short side of the board, in the 3rd season in progress, so we're over halfway. 2 player game. We've both leveled up to 4 prestige.
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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A little bit of Ugly Christmas Sweaters card game. We're getting better at it! It's surprisingly thinky for a light trick-taking game. Since we don't play trick-takers often I think it's going to take a while for us to really get the strategy in depth! #boardgames
Three sweater sets. On the left, an all green sweater (tree icon) with 11 & 12 on the top and a green patch card on the bottom. In the middle a sweater with 7 green candy cane on the top left, 8 purple bells on the top right, and a 9 green candy cane on the bottom. On the right is a sweater with a 12 purple snowman on the left, a 2 green bells on the right, and a 9 red snowman on the bottom. And yes, that mess scored well. It is, after all, an Ugly Christmas Sweater game!
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Learning Terra Nova #boardgames
My player board (Fairy faction, recommend for 1st game) At this point only 4 of my houses have been placed, nothing upgraded. Above the player board is the main Terra Nova board. Four player colors are used because we're playing the 2 player "Lucky Digger" variant.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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It's an old game I picked up used mostly because of the cute Ryan Laukat artwork and the hilarious description on the back of the box🤣 (See alt text on pic)
Trollhalla You and your hideous troll-friends have decided that it's time for a career change. You are tired of guarding bridges and shaking down weary travelers all for the sake of a few clinking coins! Tolls are down, bandits are up, and besides, living under your bridge is damp and uncomfortable and breathing all that crumbling bridge mortar is taking a toll on your lungs... It's time to venture forth and find some fresh sea air! In Trollhalla, you join forces with your fellow trolls to sail the seas in search of islands filled with pillage and plunder. Crunchy livestock, nervous monks, panicked princesses, piles of gold, and casks of grog await you! But watch out for Billy Goats--if you're not careful they will knock parts of your precious stolen cargo out of your boat! With so many goodies lying about on these islands, it feels like you've died and gone to troll heaven, or perhaps someplace even better -Trollhalla!
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Today the games we went for were light and silly: Moon Colony Bloodbath & Trollhalla 🤣 Final player boards for both. #boardgames
Player board for Moon Colony Bloodbath (Dr. Dibson) 3 Work tokens placed, 1 money, 2 food remain. Two building cards remaining: Organ Bank (1 box on it) & Iron Mine. Population left on Organ Bank, 5, on Iron Mine, 3 for a final total of 8. Enough for a win, but it wasn't pretty. It never is in this game! LOL Player board for Trollhalla. Ship has (left to right) 2 goats, 5 pig farmers (1 wild Grog tile in stack), 2 monks, 3 noblemen, 1 damsel, 4 steers. Point values for each type are the number of icons under each, except the goats (no points for goats).
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I love that Cafe Baras has a Board Game card. Creature Comforts also has board game cards. It's just such a nice cozy touch for cozy games. #boardgames
Board Game card. Green clock upper left corner for decor, cost 4 coins, worth 5 points. Creature Comforts board game from KTBG depicted along with 4 game components: wheat, mushroom, wood, and apple. On the bottom: if played as a customer card, the customer required 1 tea, 2 cupcakes, and a tan clock for decor (to be Regular customer).
November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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BGstats October 2025. We didn't play all our "spooky season" games in Oct. Some were played last mth, some not at all. I think there's a BGA game or 2 included (otherwise it wouldn't have 6 players, 2 locations). The 1 new game was Skara Brae, which I'm looking forward to playing again! #boardgames
BG Stats Oct 2025 Plays: 35 H-index: 3 Games: 14 New: 1 Players: 6 Locations: 2 Moon Colony Bloodbath: 13 Carcassonne: 5 Martian Dice: 3 Don't Go In There: 2 Horrified: American Monsters: 2 Patchwork: Halloween Edition: 2 Alice's Garden: 1 Cartographers Heroes: 1 Cthulhu Gloom: 1 17 designers: Andrew Nerger: 7% Dan Hallagan: 7% Donald X. Vaccarino: 7% Fred Perret: 7% Frédéric Guérard: 7%. Rows left to right, starting with the top row: Moon Colony Bloodbath (14), Carcassonne (5), Maryian Duce(3), Don't Go In There (2), Horrified American Monsters (2), Patchwork Halloween Edition (2), Alice's Garden (1), Cartographers Heroes (1), Cthulhu Gloom (1), It's A Wonderful World (1), Obsession (1), Scooby-Doo The Boardgame (1), Skara Brae (1), Space Base (1).
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Played Forest Shuffle w/ Exploration expansion for 1st time. Got cards into my unique cave on the very last turn of the game! (I played the raccoon: drawing back up drew the 3rd Winter card---for the 2nd time! I'd played the Christmas tree which had allowed us to reshuffle 3rd Winter.) #boardgames
Collector's Cave card: 2 pts per card in cave. I had 6 cards in my cave. Each cave card in the Exploration expansion has unique art and scoring conditions. Players select a cave at the beginning of the game.
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Can you believe it? No monsters! I can't even remember the last time we got through Cartographers (Heroes) without any Ambush cards turning up. Of course, the 2nd game made up for it: drew 3 Ambush cards in a row, in Winter🙄 Details in Alt txt #boardgames
Cartographers Heroes map, A side. 3 mountains are surrounded, 5 Hero squares because one of the Skills cards allowed drawing extra Heroes for coins. 8 coins crossed off. (I used the 3 Skills cards a lot). Also of note there's extra mountains drawn on the map! A card I love from the Architects mini-expansion I think. This has all the mini-expansions (Ambushes, Architects, Champions etc) rolled in.
November 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Setting up a game of Cthulhu Gloom. Choosing our family cards. I'm going with the Innsmouth crew (lower left stack). #boardgames
Top cards in each stack, starting upper left, going clockwise: Herbert West Reanimator "He brings good things to life", Randolph Carter Dreamland Believer "He's one of the hep cats of Ulthar", Old Whateley Weird Wizard"He don't keer what people think", and Barnabas Marsh Big Frog Around Town. "It's not easy turning green"
October 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Scooby-Doo The Boardgame hit the table today. The components for this are always a delight💜🩵 #boardgames
Collage: upper left pic: purple Daphne mini and chartreuse Shaggy mini in the (cardboard) Mystery Machine. Lower left: the Green Ghost (gray mini) at the starting location, Witchel's Shack. Right pic: Green Ghost and Daphne have a heart-heart chat behind the Mystery Machine.
October 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Mothman walked right into our trap, Horrified American Monsters #boardgames
Red mini of mothman with 2 standees, and an open trap token. Really, more material than a location that size can hold, LOL
October 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Yep. He's going for the goat. Horrified American Monsters #boardgames
Town board in browns and sepia. Blue-ish Chupacabra mini crouched and reaching out. There's a goat token on the stadium adjacent, which I've picked up and am holding at the right edge of the picture. The token is brown, and says 3, Stadium, Goat, with the picture of a goat's head. In the background, out of focus, is the standee for the Psychic, with a bright green base.
October 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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First play of Skara Brae! We liked it! You know how sometimes we make a real mess of gameplay? Well, this game is literally all about making a mess...and cleaning it up!🤣
Pic is end of last turn of last round. Just need to feed my ppl, gain no midden, & score! #boardgames
My player board, tiles, and cards. Board is on the left. I've got 3 skaill knives, 3 food, & 1 bone. Slider has 2 midden, no negetive points, and the midden is offset by my 2 utensil cards. I've got 4 roofs, and 2 iron ball cards. I'm in the 3rd slot of the Furnish track, and didn't touch the Trade track. On the right are the player tiles. I didn't use the Explore special tile, though I upgraded it and most of the tiles. I have 7 villager cards: 1 blue, 2 green, 3 brown, & 1 yellow.
October 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Set up (I think) to play our first game of Skara Brae tomorrow. 16 different resources!🤯 I can't even. We're just leaving them in the plastic bags until we need to get something😆 Won the game in @kovray.bsky.social giveaway sponsored by Garphill Games. #boardgames
Top pic: game set up with player boards and accompanying tiles at bottom and on the right. Village cards laid out in 3 rows of 4 (2 player game) and some other decks in different orientation until we figure out what to do with them. Bottom pic: 16 small clear plastic bags of 16 different wooden resource pieces in various colors and shapes.
October 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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These casual guests in Obsession. I dread the draw from that deck and always breathe a sigh of relief when it's not bad. Today wasn't the worst, but it looked like I was going to get stuck with the -4 pts, but I dismissed that guest🎉 and on the same turn drew the -2 guest🤦‍♀️ Sigh. #boardgames
On the left: Miss Anne Fairbourne, Adventuress, "Few speak openly againsy Anne, but there have been whispers of indiscretion", level 1 casual guest, -2 pts, no servants, draw 1 casual guest, -1 reputation. On the right: Miss Florence Oliver, Gossip, "Miss Oliver exudes sweetness anf humility, but some feel she us the master of innocent gossip." level 1 casual guest, -4 pts, 1 lady's maid servant, attack -2 reputation, -1 reputation.
October 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Though I usually drink tea, a maple latte on the patio of a local coffee house on an autumn day after a walk in the park with my #chihuahua is kind of perfect. Besides this big hit of caffeine will serve me well in the first boardgame of the day😆
Foreground: back of chihuahua head, one ear up, one down, out of focus. (She's in my lap) Dog looking at robins-egg blue cup of latte on table on patio.
October 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Esme, blissed out on park bench. Perfect morning for a walk in the park! #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky
White-blonde chihuahua-mix on gray slatted park bench, her eyes closed, tongue curled and lolling out one side. Purple harness, collar, and leash.
October 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Package delivery. Because I didn't have enough unworked puzzles🧩😆
Four 1000 piece puzzle boxes, top to bottom: King Arthur Flour Holiday Cookies, Potting Shed, Parkside Coffee, and The Little Book Shop
September 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Morning
#SkySky
Layers of clouds backlit by the early morning sun, clear of the horizon, turning the sky below orange and outlining the clouds with gold. Rays streaming down from the sun. Fluffy clouds against a blue sky, undersides a creamy golden color lit by the rising sun, a few treetop silhouettes at the bottom if the image
September 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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It's here! I won Skara Brae from an @kovray.bsky.social giveaway (sponsored by Garphill Games) I've never won a game before (and usually don't enter)! I'm stoked to get Skara Brae! Hope to get it to the table soon🤞 Thank you Kovray! The package arrived quickly and in perfect condition! #boardgames
Cover art of Skara Brae showing a figure dressed in a mixture of cloth and fur skins, holding a long spear with their right hand, arm drawn back to throw. To the left and right are large tall stones decorated with bone and shells on ropes. The grass is dry and golden at their feet. Behind them just beyond the hill they're standing on is another figure with a spear looking on, a winding stone wall behind him, and a small village of thatched huts beyond the wall, with smoke rising in a thin stream from the peak of each hut, as if there's a central ventilation opening. A few distant trees dot the horizon. Though the land is dusty-colored, the sky is blue, with thick lines of cumulous clouds all the way across the sky.
September 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Today, It's A Wonderful World hit the table for the first time! My engine-building was cringe-worthy, but I didn't OK on point multipliers! (More in Alt txt)
Completed Empire cards at the end of the game. My Empire card was Aztec Empire, side B. Completed cards were 3 black, 1 green, 1 gold, 2 white, and 4 blue. I finished with 8 blue production, 2 green, 3 black, 2 white, and 1 gold (assuming I counted right on the photo just now😆) I had 9 military tokens that also gained me some extra points, and one of the cards was just straight up 10 points!
September 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I got my best score yet in Moon Colony Bloodbath(2 player game) today. 30 population of my moonbase still alive at the end of the game!🤣 Details in Alt txt #boardgames
Player board, character Dr. Dibson with 2 population on it, 2 money, and 4 moon fruit. Five building cards still standing with a total of 28 population combined! Left to right: Telescope, Spaceport, Clone Banks, Lunacrete Factory, & Fuel Cells. I did have to destroy some buildings, but I kept building right up to the end. And I made a point to keep a couple of buildings with useful abilities: Clone Banks gave me a population bonus for feeding all my people during The Hunger, & Lunacrete Factory gave me a 2 money discount on all buildings, which made it easier to build more cheap buildings toward the end.
September 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Esme, nesting
#rescuedog #chihuahua
White-blonde chihuahua-mix asleep on a pile of pillows and quilt, nose tucked into quilt, big ears up.
September 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Here we go again! Moon Colony Bloodbath #boardgames
Card rai. With 4 building cards in it (my starting hand) To the left, at the edge of the image, on the table (dark blue game mat) one of my Perk cards is visible. I'm playing as Dr. Dibson. Player board in center of table with starting resourcea on the board, and a circle in the center where we play Work action tokens. Work action tokens to the left of player board.
September 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM