DanyCon 2022

Well friends, 2022 was a successful DanyCon year!  We did things a bit differently this year, but we played more games than usual and even were able to get together in person!  Will worked much harder than I did to prepare for this DanyCon, and prepared the entire schedule and most of the scavenger hunt we put together!  So I consider Will the MVP of DanyCon!

Theme

The theme of this DanyCon was robots!  We had Robot Dany themed shirts, a scavenger hunt with robot eggs, and Mark and Erin made a new puzzled pint that was robot themed!  Robot food is mostly oil and electricity so we didn’t eat much of that…

Will’s board game schedule site!

Schedule

This year Will created an online schedule.  It was interactive and allowed users (limited to family, sorry) to sign up for games of interest!  We didn’t end up doing a DnD session or a tournament this year in the interest of playing more traditional board games.  It worked great for scheduling, and I think we should do it every year (provided Will has the time).  Plus it had several Easter eggs that lead users to our scavenger hunt!

Example of Will’s board game selection feature!

Scavenger Hunt

Will (and I) created a scavenger hunt with silly clues related to board games and different location in our house.  Depending on the place we needed to hide the clues, we used robot shaped eggs to indicate the location.  The start of the scavenger hunt is in the schedule… see if you can find it!  The hunt lead us to the swag bags, which I’ll talk about next!

Swag bags!

Swag Bags

Each bag contained personalized color changing cups (I love these because they reduce the washing of cups during DanyCon), two packs of Keyforge cards, a set of teeny, tiny dice, a copy of DanyCon themed micro-robots (the game is out of print, so I had to make an homage-version myself) and of course DanyCon shirts!

DanyCon Micro Robots! Check out my version of the robot – made with shrinky-dinks!

Puzzled Pint

Mark and Erin made a fabulous puzzled pint again (that was Robot themed).  I intend to post it here, after they have made it public on the National Puzzled Pint site like last time.  If you want to check out the one they did last year for DanyCon 2021 – it is now posted!

Games!

We didn’t end up doing a DnD session or a tournament this year in the interest of playing more traditional board games, and Will’s website provided a way to elegantly split the group into multiple games.  My biggest complaint was I didn’t get to play everything!  When we decided DanyCon was happening in person I told Will he should buy some new board games for it, and he went a bit wild.  Of the new games I played this DanyCon my favorite was probably Meadow.  There was a rather complicated deduction game called Awkward Guests that I need to give another try, because in my opinion it is completely broken and frustrating for 3 players.  So Clover! was my favorite game we played that was not new.

Playing a game of Meadow on the screen porch

The DanyCon 2022 Crew