Game Night 11/26/2025 -- The Grizzled

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDGw3YHAT3I

Hours were shortened for this evening and only three hard core games showed up.

"The Grizzled" came up in the rotation. It's a cooperative game about WW I.

It's a pretty simple game made amazingly difficult by the rulebook. (The video linked above does not really describe it well enough to play.)

You play a small hand of cards set by "The Leader" which is a role that rotates each hand. The Leader determines how many cards each get from a starting deck of about 25 cards.

You play the cards until you would have to play the third of the 6 "bad things". Meaning, you it's acceptable to have 2 barrages but not 3. Two rainy days but not three.

If you cannot play a card that would triple up, you withdraw. Withdraw means you get a penalty of more cards to play.

There's a few ways to mitigate the cards. Standard gaming stuff.

Not much of a game but not terrible. Interesting theme but the mechanics were so so.

In rookie mode, we defeated it pretty handily twice.

It will likely come up again in rotation.

Better on a warm night at the beach then the trenches of France.

Take what you can get.



Yours,