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After decades (at least 4 months) under Assyrian rule (of the fridge), the Corinthian Dominion saw itself again in the winner’s circle of a game of 7 Wonders Duel. The Dominion came with a bold strategy to pretend to do what the Legacy expected, invest in the sciences, then boldly switch into military pressure. The feint worked and the Legacy spent several of their early turns blocking the sciences at the expense of their own development. When the Dominion pivoted to military and resource development they were able to take a commanding lead and stole much of the Legacy’s early-game wealth. ...

What does it take for the little people to get ahead? The answer this month was clever strategy, a military-industrial complex that ignores them, and at least one leather backpack. That’s right. For the first time, Charlie Dash has guided the forest to a system where the Woodland Alliance (the littlest guys) could not be ignored by scoring 30 points. The early game saw the expansionist birds, led by Alphonse Lichtenberg III, leave their heriditory roost like they’d been kicked out by the Queen. They found out early what happens when viziers can’t do what they’ve been assigned and twice they fell into turmoil. Even so, they established a half-dozen roosts and had an impressive display of avian might with a powerful army that took the battle to the Marquis. ...

Alphonse Lichtenberg III wins an epic game of Root by a sneaky misdirection amid bird-y turmoil. Alphonse Lichtenberg III once again took the role as head of the Eyrie Dynasty. Crabapple Westlake took the reins for the entrenched powers of the Marquise. While Charlie Dash acted as rouser-in-chief for the Woodland Alliance rabble. The early game saw Commander Westlake try to contain the Eyrie to the southeast corner. The gambit failed and the Eyrie quickly built roosts throughout the middle of the map. This ambitious expansion turned out to be an overreach. Not long after the roosts were built, the despot in charge was overthrown and the government of the Eyrie was sent into turmoil. The turmoil led to the Eyrie adjusting their goals to only ruling the clearings they considered worthy of their rule thus ignoring any penalties from government in turmoil. “Let the rest of the forest rot for all I care”, the new leader preached. ...

Amelia Lungheart and Chuck Douglas again took to the skies for their first flight into the busy London airport of Heathrow. Chuck showed some reckless stick-work throwing the plane from tilt to tilt while Captain Lungheart stayed calm, made coffee, and did the co-pilot’s job for him by clearing the air in front of them. The news and his bosses will still give him most of the credit. He again harassed the British air traffic control after the plane had landed exclaiming: “bangers?! I barely even know-ers!” He is up for his second demotion in two flights as a result. ...

Three first-time, wanna-be forest rulers sat down at the table. They were initially befuddled by sentences like “Birds Are Wild. You can always treat a bird card as a card of another suit”… “WTF is a bird card?!” one wanna-be lamented. Eventually, it dawned on all of them that they were playing three different games and that maybe at least one of them should have paid attention in Civics 201: Ruling a Forest in 2025. ...

Amelia Lungheart and Chuck Douglas took to the skies and then took to the ground by practicing their first landings ever over the weekend. They landed successfully twice at YUL much to the delight of the passengers (Only one of whom had food poisoning from eating the fish). The pilot, Lungheart, took the unusual approach of ensuring there was a fresh pot at all time despite that being the copilot’s job. The copilot, Douglas, managed the flaps and then flapped his gums at the air traffic control tower needlessly. He’s up for demotion in the Spring. ...

Two twitchy twitchers spent the afternoon crafting two habitats to attact flocks of birds of all shapes and sizes. Albatross Lovebird approached the task with a steady strategy a bird in every biome and an egg in every nest. She dominated the bird count and her nector collection was nect-level. Cormorant Duckford’s last minte switch to a waterfowl-centric stragety went fowl and he drowned in cards without eggs, nests, or goals to speak of. In spite of Albatross Lovebird’s lack of accomplished goals, she came out on top. Duckford’s goose was cooked by over 20 points. ...

There are 12 levels in the two-player version of The Mind. Our noble, mind-bending heroes completed 11 of them. The dramatic last life was lost at number 51. Cosmic Dove voted to use a ninja star; Ambrosia declined. She played the 52 mere seconds before Dove was able to play the 51. The final life was lost and the mind-connection broken. So close! Players Ambrosia Lazuli, Cosmic Dove Game The Mind Winner No Drink Coffee - Zab Humure Snack Nuts and watermelon

250 years (and two months) removed from the last mission to Mars decendents of the original Timber Trio returned to planet to reestablish their ancestor’s crumbling civilization. The legendary inventor Carmichael Walnut IV, the electrician and power baron Archibald Larch III, and Cornelius Dogwood IX the gardener set out together to again claim Mars for human kind. Did they learn the lessons of their ancestors? No not really. But they did have a grand ol’ time. ...

Chuck Wilbur stunned the crowd with a phenominal race in only their second race in Formula OSC. They drove out to an early lead and kept the pressure on the reigning champion and favorite Crash Dandyboots. A careful and considered approach to the initial lap gave way to fierce racing through the curves of the Great Britain racetrack and only after burning his engine to a crisp did Crash manage to take the win by a mere car’s length. Asked about it after the race the driver was kind of a jerk: ...