Mostly not too bad. It’s pretty clever how they hide a bunch of the wiring under the tea house. You have to kind of braid a bunch of it and shove it under a little lego hide along with the connection board. That was tricky. I made my daughter do the braiding.

This is the second set I’ve done a light kit for (the first was the Daily Bugle set. Talk about jumping into the deep end…) so I kind of knew how the wiring worked with the bricks at this point. The instructions were pretty good and the wiring was pretty good as well. It didn’t come with a power source and it wants a usb power source instead of a battery pack or something, but I had some old usb power blocks running around, so that was fine.

Thanks!

Yeah some of them are really great. My daughter and I visited the Japanese gardens in Portland this Summer and when I saw the set I had to get it for a fun reminder of our trip.

It doesn’t. I bought it from light my brick

It’s part of the Bugle set.

Imagine the old cartoon theme song. That’s one of the things it does.

Got in a play of Tiger and Dragon and Cosmoctopus.

Tiger and Dragon is a larger box game from Oink Games. I like the slightly puzzly nature of this one and playing with the tiles.

Cosmoctopus is gonna take a couple more plays before I get a good opinion of it. The table presence is fun, but I almost can’t imagine a world in which I don’t always play the “fast” game and just start everyone with 3 tentacles. This thing seems like it runs long. We definitely had a couple questions about the rules as we were going through.

Got in a game of Indiana Jones Sands of Adventure. Managed a win this time. We were using the “B” sides of the tiles. They seemed to make things easier than the “A” sides. Fun little co-op. Indy and Sallah triumph!

Got in a game of Marvel Dice Throne. Doctor Strange managed to overcome Miles Morales. Barely. Was a pretty fun round actually. We both managed to pull off our ultimates (in spite of my wife’s attempts to thwart me). Gotta say, if you don’t pull any spells in that five card draw, Strange’s ultimate is a bit of a letdown.

Oh that’s great!

Machi Koro is super simple to travel with. Just rubber band the cards and throw the dice and money tokens in a bag and there you go.

Jaipur is similar that way.

Anything by Oink Games.

I did back the Kickstarter and we just got access to the files the other day. (Pretty quickly after the close) It’s a print and play game so when it’s available it should just be the files. I’m not certain when it will be available to everyone but I wouldn’t think it should be too long. I also know they’re planning on adding more maps in the future for folks that backed/buy it. Sorry I don’t have more specific info.

If you have the digital version it offers a few different ways to play solo. Gives you different things to work towards/try out etc.

Yeah. No actual hiking. We just have a trip coming up and this is compact enough that it would be fun to take along. Sorry for the confusion. 🙂

You’re going on a series of four “hikes”. You roll to determine how many grid/elevation lines you can cross in a turn. You have to end your turn on a waypoint. If you can’t, you can rest and earn a water bottle which will let you add one additional line cross in a later turn. The different spots enable scoring/abilities. So by the end you’ve wandered over the map and hopefully accrued some points.

Sahara is a truly fun time. Romancing the Stone and The Lost City are also good.

I am sad I had to look this far for spaced. Spaced is great!

A double double animal style is a good fast food burger. And hits the spot when you’re in the mood. But those fries. Getting them animal style mostly redeems them but barely.

They do. And the In’n’Out people are not to be trusted (when it comes to fries)