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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 2h
My current obsession with Wingspan Pocket has me mulling over what makes a solo version solid to me. Is it similarity to multi-player? Is it satisfactory puzzle on its own? Some solos are very different from their multi-player versions and are still very fun. Hmmm. 🧐
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 2h
It took me maybe two weeks solid, but I finally beat the automa. I played Pocket 2p yesterday for the first time. The teach and play was seamless because the automa works very well to learn the game.
I won 56 to 49 in a solo game of Wingspan Pocket.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 18h
Yes. That was horrifying for decades after. They republished the series with less scary art. But the art was everything for me, and the index at the end where they detail each story's inspiration. Creepy!!!!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was either the King Kong movie from the 70's or Poltergeist.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Once I was telling a work mentee about how Princess Diana and Tupac's death were around the same time and I'll always associate them because of that and then I was like "Wait, were you alive then?" My mentee was a 9 month old baby when Tupac died! ☠️☠️☠️
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is your annual reminder that your local library is not doing a construction project in the middle of the aisle. It is Banned Book Week, and caution tape was cheap on city supply order. Yes, you can borrow those books!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel the same about that tiki game! So much so that I emailed the original publisher about retheming it, then emailed another publisher about republishing it with a new theme. The mechanics are interesting, the time it takes to play is just right for my fam, but ugh. I want to love it, but can't.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can you doctor a projector? Our neighbors do that for a witchy scene. They hang a sheet fabric, and the projector is behind it. It trips ok the kids out!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would lose because mine would be about discovering my friends started a different text thread that I'm not in. Unless FOMO counts? Then I would win.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I missed that one! So I made sure to be at Tabletop Library tonight.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Awww is right. I just realized he looks just as happy as I do. What a nice guy! 😍
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No. Yooooou held back tears and word vomited at Matt Leacock for 5-10 min. because he designed some of the key games that got your kid (and you) into the hobby!
The Q&A portion with Matt Leacock and Tabletop Library manager, Vera. Vera snapped a pic of me whipping out our old weathered copy of 'Mole Rats in Space,' that I cannot bear to part with.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
After having this play fresh in my mind, I'm realizing the right to left of the OG is very confusing to newbies. I'm glad this was changed in the Pocket version. It's much more intuitive. I think if I acquire a big box 'Span, it will be Fin because that will be easier for me to table.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If they are ever in the SF Bay Area in California, the @pacificpinball.bsky.social is amazing. I always forget it's here, but then I spend hours in it when I visit. I love that the rooms are organized by decades too!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My friend took me out for belated bday dinner. I chose the new Game Parlour location in Oakland. Solidified that I like Wingspan Pocket better than OG, and shared a plate of tasty chicken. Everything on the menu is GF, if that's a thing for your and yours!
Starting a game of OG Wingspan at Game Parlour in Oakland.  The Dinosaur Island plate. All the dishes are named after board games.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're in Oakland and want to imbibe in some Yashi tea, this one is cheaper than the other. Like $9 vs. $5.50. 😳 It's the same tea, but without the hella expensive lemon she imports from China. It is a regular, degular, American lemon. Also, I discovered their green tea jelly is good!
My order at Golden Tea Shop today. NP 11. Yashi Handmade Lemon Tea with green tea jelly.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big Dish is meh.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But if you're into texture? That's a whole different story!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My toxic habit is replying to posts on free lists, "I don't have ____, but this library does." This time it was a request for a VHS player & me with a resource to digitize the content. 📼 🎥 🎦 Because this is hella tight and I need to tell someone!!!! www.sanleandro.org/1124/DIY-Mem...
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DIY Memory Lab | San Leandro, CA
Information on the DIY Memory Lab and Mobile Memory Lab.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Too cute!!!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This opinion makes me feel good about my impulse buy! 😃 I never played the other two, but recognized the designer from Jekyll vs. Hyde. It's quick and my teen requested a do over after the first game. The winning, but not by too much, is a nice little puzzle for us!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think I played correct this time. The automa whooped me. 43 to 66
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Nice Indian Boy on Hulu is 1 hr and 40 min. If you're into rom coms.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You all were right. Wonder Man is very good.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My child turned in her project and realized she got her sacs mixed up. Iykyk. 🍒 🔬
My kid's felt diagram of a Neuron Structure with the vesicle labeled "vesticle."
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PSA: These all taste the same. I tried every one.
An open bag of Trader Joe's A Gaggle of Gummy Candy.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I listen to a lot of podcasts. Some feel like the hosts are trying to get through a checklist in a certain amount of time, and some feel like a conversation. It's a certain skill to record & edit a natural conversation that is guided by a checklist.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jk. It was a tie. Forgot the tucked cards the automa had. 😑
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think I still like the OG for a chill solo puzzly time with my friend. But this Automa is hitting all the marks that make the OG fun for me. Finally played it right this time, and beat it. 34 to 26. But I have to play again to see if it was a fluke!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My coworker told me her fam calls Wingspan, "Egg on Bird" 🧐😆 Now I can't stop looking at my game collection and renaming games. Cats on Quilts Dice on Dogs Trees on Squares Can you guess what games these are?
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's only been 2 months. But I think grief perhaps doesn't go away really. Maybe you just live with it and it changes over time. In recent years my MIL always gifted me socks or pajama pants for Christmas. Folding laundry now and realizing these are the last of the Gma pj pants. 😢
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So far I've had mooncakes at Napoleon Super Bakery, Wonder Food, & Ruby King in Oakland's Chinatown. Ruby King is the winner so far. Napoleon a close second. I'm going to walk to Big Dish to try theirs. I also tried Sheng Kee's in Berkeley. They are meh, but beautiful & tiny. Any other recs?
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of the best compliments I got was "I'm following you, because everything you stop to look at is cute!" 😆
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do this too!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is good to know.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yoga with Adriene breaks the 4th wall and blows my mind in a way that takes me back to Miss Sharon on Romper Room & Mr. Rogers in his Neighborhood. Like, how does she know?!?! I am clenching my neck / jaw / forehead and I *do* need to breathe!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Banner Game Day for me! Had enough energy after work for Tricky Tuesday. I won two games of the very chaotic Schadenfreude. But not because I'm skilled in any way. Everyone else was too busy having a knife fight to notice little ol' me. 🔪🃏🔪
My hand in a game of Schadenfreude.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So glad to be sharing custody in this day and age. If it was the 90's, we'd have to shout our actions at each other from the porch to the car, while the poor game board languished between us never getting either of our full attention. 🫠
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My fam and @sndtst.bsky.social 's fam have shared custody of my OG Wingspan. It lives there and I play it with them! I bought Pocket to have a little span time at home. Learning the solo at work. I'm feeling like Pocket makes more sense for my gaming habits now!
Getting to know the solo version of Wingspan Pocket on my lunch break. I've eaten all but one bite of my leftover slow cooker beef roast ragù and pasta.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hendy Woods. About a 2-3 hr drive away from the Bay.
My husband painting a landscape. A dry branch of the Navarro River. It snakes through Anderson Valley to the coast. Our buddy found a tiny frog. My kid and her friend taking a break from skipping rocks.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Is it bad luck to buy 3 mooncakes? 🥮 🥮 🥮 These were expensive. I don't got 4 mooncake cake money right now! The intention was to bring these camping. But I don't think they will survive the drive. 😆
3 partially eaten mooncakes from Ruby King in Oakland's Chinatown. Mixed Nut, White Lotus and Red Bean.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lovely surprise!
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ok yes, I looked up how to pronounce Macklemore, because I haven't thought about him since 'Thrift Shop.' I knew there is a schwa sound up in there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8C...
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The /ə/ Sound || The Schwa Sound (doctOR, centRE, mothER)
YouTube video by Pronunciation with Emma
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In the Case Files of Richard the Jeweler, Seigi, a student, rescues a beautiful jeweler from drunks. R offers S a job in his shop. They both also happen to solve mysteries, idk why, but it's wonderful. Seigi has a crush on a girl at his college, but is *very* aware that Richard is so pretty.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Idk what niche genre this is. But very pretty / handsome boys solving mysteries in a slightly BL way has become my recent obsession I guess. In Pretty Boy Detective Club they admit a girl for the first time, but she has to be in a pretty boy disguise. No one at school blinks an eye. 🥰
My current manga I have checked out from our library's Link+ system, which allows users to borrow from participating libraries in California and Nevada. The Case Files of Jeweler Richard vol. 4. and Pretty Boy Detective Club vol. 2.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hot dogs
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you're looking for a game that doubles down on comprehension, (reading a text, understanding it, and making it apply to another situation) AND you're looking for an option besides the potty humor of Cards Against Humanity Family Edition, this is worth seeking out.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Librarians: "Why do I need this?" BYOB makes engaging with text fun. A lot of folks of all ages have hang ups around reading, especially reading aloud. Reading to make people laugh, helps lighten the activity into something more approachable. Below are some prompts to search for in your book.
Prompt cards: "A slang term for having a good time. Happening right now in an alternate dimension. A phrase that could inspire revolt. Words on a Welcome Mat."
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sooooo excited for the re-release of Bring Your Own Book. Thanks @happycampergames.bsky.social for putting this out in the world again! Librarians of Bluesky, you need this!
Me, holding a copy of Bring Your Own Book from Happy Camper in front of my work shelves full of other games and items we use in our Adult Literacy dept.
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FOBoardGame @foboardgame.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One parent passed away, and one got put in assisted living this past few months. Now I find myself feeling super proud (and slightly weepy) of any elder who is out and about slowly doing daily life with their walker. Like, "Yes! You're doing it! It may take forever, but you are doing it!" 🥳🥹👵🏻👴🏻
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