Games Played on August 23, 2026
terang shared the record of the games played at Chuju-kai.
It is the record of August 23, 2026.
Ten titles made the table that day.
What caught my eye was that two remakes sat side by side.
China is a remake of Kardinal & König.
HANAMI was a remake of Samurai.
It was a day when old games came back with new faces.
The TOKYO map in HANAMI was largely under water, they wrote.
And the colors were beautiful.
Two games were played twice.
Grow Sky twice with different players, and China twice too.
A game people enjoy gets opened again the same day.
The order of the record taught me that.
Grow Sky is a game of placing dice.
One player wrote that they strengthened their flight course and then barely flew.
Instead, they got absorbed in the polyomino puzzle.
Getting absorbed in something other than the goal may be this game's fun.
In Altay, there was a small mishap.
A player forgot about the personal goal card dealt at the start.
It was a card worth 3 points when completed.
terang wrote, "so there was a gacha element there too."
Remembering every rule is hard in a heavy game.
The forgotten part is part of the day's record too.
Stone Age is known as a good introduction to worker placement.
Someone said it was the game to play when there was no time for A Feast for Odin.
Instead of a heavy game, a not-light game takes the table.
A very Chuju-kai choice, I thought.
Lighter games were there too.
Gumichoco Papaya Revolution wildly reworks rock-paper-scissors.
Win with rock and you climb 2 steps. Scissors, 6 steps. Paper, a full 22 steps at once.
GEAR was a trick-taking game where most of your hand is visible.
Only two cards are hidden. The other six are taken by auction.
A strange-feeling game, someone wrote.
Ningen Debut is about matching your answer to the person on your left.
But if everyone matches, it scores nothing.
It counts as a robot bug, they say.
Not matching too well is what decides the game.
Geschenkt is a game of passing bad cards around.
Pay a chip and you do not have to take the card.
"Geschenkt" is German for a gift.
In America it is titled "No Thanks!"
For a gift, it takes a lot of declining.
The Gang was played too.
A cooperative game that has reached this group's table many times.
That August table was made of reborn old games, same-day rematches, and a forgotten rule.
All of it looks like a group that has been playing for a long time.