At one table, four former Kenyon apartment-mates huddled around the board of Azul, an abstract strategy game involving ornate tiles and a complex set of rules that one player, Nadine Richardson ’21, was patiently explaining to her opponents. “Someone else sent us the invite to this and then didn’t show up,” said Charlotte Marshall ’22, another one of the four. “But we’re all here.”

For the Boston alumni group, convening for an afternoon of games marked a change from cheering on the Red Sox at Fenway Park or swapping stories over a drink at a brewery. But between rounds of board games, stories were flying freely, spanning from fond memories of senior year games of Settlers of Catan to post-mortems of various Beta Temple beach parties (“so much sand”). “We’ve moved a lot,” said Katie Bates ’16, who helped organize the event along with her husband, Jake Bates ’16. “So finding the regional group grounds us in people. When you see Kenyon people, everyone connects right away.”

Recommendations

Anomia: “It’s easy to learn and is a trivia game, which Kenyon kids love.” — Nate Grosh ’19 

Other games played: Azul, Linkee, SushiGo!, Settlers of Catan