Meeples

Tomoko, Jeremy, and Siew Kiat invited me to join them at a European board game cafe called Meeples last Thursday night, and so intrigued I was at the idea (notwithstanding the fact that I have an Organisational Behaviour final exam the following week) that I decided to participate.

And it was a pretty awesome decision, as you can see from the pictures I took on Friday night:

The quaint little place located on top of Face-to-Face SS15.

Playing the funky European strategy board game called “Smallworld”.

Jeremy reading the rule sheet with Amanda (one of the staff) helping us to sort out the pieces and explain the rules (which is really what their task entails!).

Jin was there too briefly, although he didn’t get to play as we were in the middle of a game.

One of my favourite games, Dixit, as it’s pretty simple too play and merely requires your imagination.

Meeples is possibly one of the most original ideas for a business, at least in Malaysia. Their vast array of European board games is definitely staggering (they even have World of Warcraft and Starcraft board games), and I think in the three consecutive nights that I was there (on Saturday night, I was with Poh Yuen, Tomoko and Jeremy), we only played like four different games. “Bang!” was also a pretty fun game (ala Murder in the Dark, but done and improved further with cards), and I had even contemplated purchasing either that or Dixit, which isn’t exactly cheap (around the range of RM150 and above).

At the moment, Meeples (the name possibly derived from their flagship board game, whose name escaped me now) has a launch promotion whereby purchasing an hour nets you an extra free hour. RM5 for two hours sounds pretty reasonable, but I doubt I’d be going as often as I did before when it reverts to the original RM5/hour.

Can’t wait to hang out there with the extended family and Matt in less than 2 weeks time. =D