Thursday, June 29th, 2023: Redacted Edition

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Wind elementals! Water elementals! Fire elementals! And wood ticks. It's been a heck of a month, especially when most of it is experienced in six-second increments.


Time to return to your favourite merchant to replenish your supplies.


You are welcomed by name as you enter the modest castle, and your gaze lands on a whole host of beautiful New Things. You check your on-hand wealth and see that you have more than enough for your trail rations and health potions.


And a sparkly New Thing or two. As a treat.

Game of the Week: Decrypto



Decrypto is a game of trying to get just enough information to your teammates, but not so much information that the opposing team knows what's going on.


Each team has four words that they can see, and the opposing team cannot. Every round, one person on each team gives a clue for each of three words in a specific order (you draw a card saying which ones you need to give clues for)


Each team will then read their clues out loud. Both teams will guess which clue relates to which word. Your opponent will hear the clues, but since they can't see what the words are they will be trying to piece together the clues to figure out what they are, so you need to keep those clues just vague enough.


The game ends when one team correctly guesses the other teams word order twice, or when one team guesses their own incorrectly twice.


As an example my team might have the words Lightbulb, Oven, Carpet, Circle


I pull the clue card 3,4,1 so I need to give a clue for Carpet, Circle, and Lightbulb


I might give clues along the lines of:

Magic (Knowing my team would associate that with a magic carpet, but hopefully the opposing team won't think about that without seeing the word)


Wheel (Hopefully if we just keep listing circular objects, it will take a while until the other team sees how it's connected)


Screw (You screw in a lightbulb, but hopefully they won't think of that)


It's a great party game with vibes reminiscent of Codenames, and it is this week's GAME OF THE WEEK! From Friday, June 30th to Thursday, July 6th, our Decrypto 5th Anniversary Edition will be 20% off while stock lasts.

Speedpaint Blowout!

Speedpaint 2.0 will be coming to our shelves soon, so that means it's time to blow out our stock of the original speedpaints. $3.00 each (previously $5.24) while supplies last, it's a great deal for all the speedpaint fans out there.

New Rentals! (Releasing Friday)

Three new rental games coming to our shelves this Friday: Bad Choices,

Bad People, and Champions!


I haven't had a chance to look into Bad People or Bad Choices, but me and a co-worker decided to figure out Champions!


In Champions! you pit people against each other in a bracket of wacky scenarios. There's cards with suggested people, but you can pick whoever you want. Celebrities, Friends, Rivals, whatever.


One such debate me and my co-worker found ourselves in was:


Tigger Vs. Johann Sebastian Bach: Who is more likely to hurt themselves every time they use a hammer? My vote was Bach (Tigger will end up hurting one of his friends, but not himself.) Josh thinks it's Tigger (he has mitten hands, and Bach would be careful to protect his moneymakers.)


Seems like a fun one to me, maybe check it out some time. (It will also be available for sale on Friday)

Upcoming Event: HOT BOARDGAME SUMMER

School is almost out, and we've got something great coming down the pipe.


For all of July, Monday through to Thursday, you can come down to GameKnight Games and Cool Stuff and use our gaming tables to play board games (ones you bring from home or any of our selection of rental games) until 5:00 p.m. FOR FREE.


Bring the kids and come down to learn your next favourite game! We'll see you July 3rd.

Weekly Poll

Who's Your Favorite Board Game Publisher?
Days of Wonder
Z-Man
Repos
Blue Orange
Leder Games
Kosmos
AEG
Hans im Glück
Exploding Kittens
You missed my favorite! (Let us know on Discord or Facebook)

I bet this weeks poll will apply to a lot more people that get our newsletter than last weeks, unless you don't pay attention to publishers. There are so many publishers that I've left off the list, but I can only make ten options to vote on, and there are so many fantastic publishers these days. Or maybe I just left your favorite off the list to be controversial, so that people will comment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.


Turns out that most of you don't watch Japanese Pro Wrestling, but only 67%, and I suspect that that's a lot more of you watching than the general public.

Reviews make the world go 'round.

You know how when you go a place, Google asks you on your phone how it was and suggests that you leave a review? "Ooh, you're an important LoCaL gUiDe!" Sure.


Buuuuuut... your local small businesses really do love it when you take the time to tell them that you appreciate them.


Think of it as a little gift. A reward for us doing a good job. And consider leaving that review!


(Also, did you know that Google also sometimes sends things to people who leave a lot of reviews? I got a pair of socks from them once!)

Restocks and New Things

This week we have for you: Restocks on Chess Boards (In a variety of price points), Dominoes, Bananagrams, Azul Mini, and much more!


New In Stock - More available at Gameknight.ca!

Keystone Leatherworks Dice Trays

Wizkids Unpainted Minis Wave 21

Marvel Dagger (Releases Friday June 30th)

 
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