Lautapeliopas Game Day #1

Earlier this year I decided to host a small game day for the contributors of Lautapeliopas. I’ve been doing yoga, and the yoga school rents out the place. It’s a lovely place and good for small gatherings. For the first game day on 16.5.2026 we ended up with 21 people attending, which was a very good amount for the space. This is my favourite type of con: a fairly small number of people but enough to play a variety of games, piles of games on table to look at and play, and nobody needs to do any administration during the day. I played a mixture of new games and old favourites. Let’s start with the new: Flip 7 is a simple push-your-luck card game, easy enough for just about anybody who can count the scores. This was a fun opener for seven people, which made it feel more like an event. I don’t see much need for this otherwise. Rayroads is a very nihilistic space train game from Amabel Holland. The game always ends badly: either you exhaust the resources of your home planet, the local…