Board Game Night

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Friday nights are now board game nights!

Finally got to learn and play Catan, after having heard about it so much from all my NRI friends. It's nice having known a group of people right from the time we landed so we could start playing all sorts of games from Week 1 itself. Uno, Scrabble, Catan, Exploding Kittens, Sequence, and previously played games we'd learnt at The Board Room Cafe in Mylapore, Chennai. 

Once we learnt the rules and played with them initial couple of rounds, we soon started adding our own twists and customizations to make each game more fun. For instance, adding a couple of characters like Jester, from the online game Among Us into Mafia, and tweaking each round with a different rule, such as each Mafia won't know who the other Mafia is, and more!

Soon, friends of friends started getting added to our little group until we had a large enough crowd of 6 or more to play even more games that required 5+ players that we couldn't play before.

The best part about the board game nights were playing with the perfect group of people who were no only open to learning and trying out different genres of games but were also super competitive, smart, and sporting - we got to play abstract games like Dixit, card games like Poker, strategy games like Azul and Santorini, and Word games like Word on the street and Codenames - both online as well as the actual board game in-person.