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A friend of mine lives in the Broomfield area and is interested in finding board game nights to meet more people and play different games. I found this old thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/DenverGamers/s/CdL7CoJTKz. Are these good recommendations still? It’s about 3 years old. My friend is a retirement age adult; it’s not a requirement that there be lots of similarly-aged players, but it’s a bonus.

My friend doesn’t use Reddit and I’m just trying to make a good list of potential options to pass along. Thanks in advance.

These all are for the USMNT at the World Cup, unless stated otherwise:

* Poch tied Arena and Robert Millar for all time wins coached at the World Cup (2).
* USMNT becomes the first team to induce own goals in consecutive games in the history of the World Cup.
* First time since 1930 that we win two straight World Cup matches.
* First time since the 1930 World Cup that we reach 6 points in the group stage.
* The USMNT becomes the second host ever to score in the first 15 minutes of its two opening matches.
* With 6 goals in the first two games, the 2026 USMNT has more goals than the US has scored in 9/11 previous World Cup entries. With 2 more goals, this will be the most goals we’ve ever scored at a World Cup (the 1930 and 2002 World Cup teams each scored 7 goals).
* This is the first time the USMNT has clinched first place in their group with one game remaining in group play.
* This is the first time the USMNT has ever known they would advance to the knockout stages with a game remaining in group play.
* This game and every game this tournament where he appears (I missed this one in my first list) Tim Ream becomes the oldest US player to play in a World Cup match. (The previous record was held by Fernando Clavijo.)
* The USMNT set a new record for the amount of rent free space taken in an opponent’s head, with our latest victory against Australia expanding us to 20,000 square feet, all rent free.

Just like the rest of you, I’m loving this tournament and enjoying seeing the team improve, even if some of these records are a little bit anticlimactic.

These are all obviously for the USMNT if not specified:

• Most goals ever in a World Cup game (4).
• The USMNT’s 4 goals in our opening match are more goals than we scored in the entire tournament last time we hosted (3).
• 4 goals is more than we average in a World Cup tournament (3.66) and more than we scored in 6/11 previous cups: 1934:1, 1990:2, 1994:3, 1998:1, 2006:2, and 2022:3.
• Tied for the biggest margin of victory (3 goals) in World Cup history.
• The 7th minute goal is the third fastest goal for a host nation in their opening game in World Cup history.
• 83/83 completed passes for Chris Richards, the highest number of passes with 100% accuracy for any World Cup player since 1966.
• Balo became the first player to score more than one goal (2) in a World Cup game since 1930.
• Balo scored his first World Cup goals.
• Gio Reyna scored his first World Cup goal.
• It was the most watched World Cup game via broadcast in both English (15.9 million) and Spanish (8.9 million) as well as streamed (1.1 million).

Now for my subjective list:
• This appears to be the fastest team the USMNT has ever fielded. We punished Paraguay for moving forward again and again. I’ve seen us punish other teams with speed from one or two guys before, but we’ve got speed from so many places now it’s the fastest USMNT I’ve seen.
• This was the least stressful World Cup match I’ve seen the USMNT play. It’s usually exciting, but the outcome of the game is much more in question. This was just a party as we controlled the game from early on.
• This was the prettiest victory in a World Cup game. We just outclassed Paraguay and got two of the prettier goals in USMNT World Cup history from Balo and Reyna.

Any other notable things to call out? If we sustain this level of play it’s going to be a very fun tournament.