Games We Love–For Sale

Even though I can’t remember the exact date, I still remember the laughter.

It was the Before Times—somewhere in that vague 2018-2019 timeframe, before COVID—and I was in an office conference room at a building where a friend was hosting game night with five other players, including me. (One of those players has gone on to become a lot more popular than I’ll ever be.) Most of the other folks in the room were not core hobbyists, but all of us wanted to connect along cultural lines; hence, the Black Nerd Game Nights were born.

It was always tricky for me to select games that might fit best for a general audience that weren’t games like UNO, so I brought Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition because it fit six players and was so easy to teach. The night’s host brought a few titles, including For Sale, an auction game I had heard of but no one had actually brought to a game night until this one.

And, the rest was history. That wasn’t because I won—which is often the reason why I sometimes come away from a first play loving a game, as we all know that winner’s bias is real—but because the game featured such a nice depth of decisions that…

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