"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport" -Charles Lamb

I hope everyone enjoyed classic card games night! Whether you played Spades, Hearts, Sequence, War, or anything else, we're glad you decided to make DAGGER a part of your Thursday night.

September 30th: Classic Card Games

DAGGER is putting on its poker face this week in preparation for Classic Card Games Night on Thursday. We'll be playing any game that uses a traditional deck of playing cards. As usual, we'll be in Soc Sci 105 starting at 8:30, and we'll be there through around midnight, so come join us! We'll have several decks of cards, but you're welcome to bring your own as well. We'll also have at least one board game that uses a couple sets of classic cards. Bring your Queens, bring your Jacks, and bring your Kings and play some card games with us!

Video Games Recap

I hope everyone enjoyed the video games we had for you last week. Homework kept me away for most of the night, but I did stop by to see people banging away on some Rock Band drums, beating up each other's characters in various ways, building up plant defenses against zombies, and playing Mahjong.

This Week at DAGGER: Video Games!

This Thursday at 8:30PM, the TVs lining the walls of Soc Sci 105 will be filled with Brawl, Mario Kart, and other video games, as the front projector screen is providing entertainment for all in Rock Band. We've got 5 displays to work with here, so if you've got a game you want to play, go ahead and bring it!

Word Games Recap

Word games night was a success! Thanks to everyone who joined us last night for hilarious word combinations in Apples to Apples, word-building in Bananagrams and Scrabble, proverb fabrication in Wise and Otherwise, word-guessing in Catchphrase, picture-drawing in Pictionary, fake definitions in Balderdash, charades-based excitement in Guesstures, and miscellaneous fun with Cranium.

Word Games Night, Sept 16th

This week at DAGGER, we'll be bringing you w-o-r-d games! Join us for Bananagrams, Apples to Apples, Scrabble, Cranium, Catchphrase, and Pictionary. Feel free to bring your own games if you have another great word game you'd like to share with DAGGER! We'll be in Soc Sci 105 @ 8:30PM this Thursday.

General Games Night Recap

Hey everyone! We loved the large crowd we had this past Thursday night! We hope you all had a generally fun night generally playing general games. There was so much going on that I know I missed some of it. Here's what I did see though:

-Card grabbing in Set
-Monster killing in Munchkin
-Smahing in Brawl
-Word building in Bananagrams
-Resource collecting in Settlers of Catan
-People playing Dominion
-Rule changing in Fluxx
-Betrayal in...uh...Betrayal

We hope to see you again this week for something a little less general.

General Games Night, September 9th

Attention DAGGERites new and...not so new! This week DAGGER is meeting at its regular place and time: Thursday @ 8:30 in Soc Sci 105. We hope you'll join us for a general games night, generally full of games. This means you'll be able to play video games, board games, and card games, and switch back and forth as you please. We hope to see you there, and we especially hope to see some new faces!

Activities Fair

Thank you to everyone who signed up for the DAGGER email list at the activities fair this afternoon. If you have made your way to the DAGGER blog from a flyer you got at the Smash Tournament or the activities fair, WELCOME! I hope to see you at future DAGGER meetings.

Congratulations, Michael!

Thank you to everyone who came to the Smash Tournament last night! I hope you all had fun. For those of you who weren't there, here's a recap:

With 24 people participating in the tournament, we ran one-on-one matches, best 2 out of 3, on the 4 TVs in the room until we reached the final 3 contestants. At this point, we moved to a round-robin finals round on the big projector screen. Congratulations to Liang on getting third place, Will on his second place finish, and especially Michael, the winner of the tournament. I hope you enjoy your prizes!

Meanwhile, in the same room, games of Betrayal, Bang!, and Bananagrams gave those not playing Brawl something fun to do. After the tournament, these games and some "just for fun" games of Brawl finished off the evening.

Smash Tournament

It's time again for our annual Super Smash Brothers Tournament!

Join us tomorrow night, September 2nd, at 7pm in Social Sciences 105. We'll have Brawl and maybe Melee if we get enough controllers. Email Kelly Williams (kelly.williams)* if you have any supplies you could provide for the tournament. We'll have prizes for the winner(s).

We'll also have board games for anyone not participating in the tournament. Play Bang!, Betrayal, Dominion, Fluxx, and whatever else we decide to bring!

*@duke.edu of course