Board Game Friday: February 2025 Plays

We've made it through February and while I hate the cold and dark that comes with the month, I have to admit that this February was one of my best months in a long time when it comes to in-person board gaming with my son!

Here's my month's worth of board game plays which you can see is dominated by Pokemon with my son!

Besides Pokemon, there were a number of other new-to-me games that I got to the table.  

Turbo Drift is a Button Shy "wallet game" that's basically 18 cards that you use to do a race on a tabletop.  It's pretty cool for what it is, and my son loved this one for a few days.  

Cow, Tiger, Santa Claus is another Button Shy wallet game with a more interesting name than the game itself (basically it's "I Spy" for in the car).  

Glasgow is a 2-player shared tableau builder.  The game is a competitive head-to-head game but you share the town that you build.  There's a neat rondel system for selecting actions and the entire game can be played in under 20 minutes.  

Fromage is a game about making French cheese.  The game is a worker placement game where the gimmick is that the board rotates and you can only play one the wedge of the board that is facing you on your turn.  Each player gets three workers, but those workers take different amounts of time depending on how powerful of an action you wish to take.  The game looks much more complicated than it actually is once you get it to the table.  A great game!

The String Railway Collection is a fun train game where your tracks are just pieces of colored string.  With simple rules and quick gameplay, this one was a winner for my son and I (my wife, on the other hand, did not enjoy this one at all).

Overall, a wonderful month of gaming and it's getting even more fun with my son now that I can teach him more "adult" games.  He and I played Unfair this month (which he seemed to enjoy) as well as a bunch of different Unmatched games.  Of course, he's still only six years old, so he also enjoys more "kid-centric" games like LEGO Monkey Palace and Catapult Feud.  Here's hoping we can continue playing lots of games in the month of March (April and May will probably be busy with his baseball practices and games so I fully expect my board game playing to take a hit come spring proper)!