Board gaming day success

Today I hosted board games, from about 11am until kicking the stragglers out at about 11:30pm. 20-25 people attended over the course of the day and at any one time there were up to four games being played. I'm pretty sure there was about an even mix of guys and gals. I'm pretty sure everyone who attended had fun at least some of the time.

I personally played
- Race for the Galaxy
- DC Heroes
- Dominion
- King of Tokyo
- San Juan
- DC Heroes (again)
- Timeline
- Lords of Waterdeep

Other games I know were played
- more DC Heroes, King of Tokyo, Lords of Waterdeep
- Ankh Morepork (twice)
- Pandemic
- Seven Wonders
- Some Munckin variant with a board
... and there were probably more

All but one of the games I played had people who hadn't played that particular game before. We even had a couple of people along who were completely new to modern "eurogames".

I'd splurged on supplies for a BBQ dinner, weather permitting, weather didn't permit so it was cooked on the stove / in the oven (only setting off 3 of the smoke alarms). had greatly overestimated the amount of sausages required so sent the remaining 30-odd pre-cookeds and a spare loaf of bread off with one of the last to leave. This may have been compounded by the fact that B went out for food mid-afternoon and returned with several large roast dinners from a local place I wasn't even aware of - I had the lamb, it was delicious and I now have a fallback takeaways for when the Foo San isn't open or what I feel like. But come dinner time - still pretty full.

Having written all this down while it was still fresh in my head - now crawling off to bed.