Friday, June 29, 2007

June 28, 2007 Session Report

We had a total of 9 gamers at last night's session: Eric, Paul, Gabe, Clayton, Sarah, Neil, Beth, Nicole and myself -- welcome back to Clayton who had missed the last few weeks.

We played a total of six games: Cloud 9, Wits and Wagers (twice), Falsche Fuffziger (aka Fake Fifties), The Bucket King and Beowulf.

For the Cloud 9 game, it was Gabe, Eric, Paul, Sarah and me who started the game -- later joined by Clayton -- Gabe eventually won the game -- I remember being all set to go to the top cloud and get 25 pts when Eric crashed the balloon for like the umpteenth time. We were then joined by Neil for two games of Wits and Wagers, first game won by Paul and second by me. Key moment was when Clayton was only three feet off the correct height of Mt. McKinley, unfortunately for Clayton he was off by three feet in the wrong direction (too high) and didn't get credit for the closest answer.

By then Beth and Nicole arrived and we split into two groups. One group of us (Beth, Neil, Eric and myself) tackled a game I had just recently acquired, Falsche Fuffziger (which roughly translates into Fake Fifties) which is about producing and laundering counterfeit money to then acquire rare coins which represent victory points. Unfortunately, nine o'clock came all too soon -- before we had a chance to finish the game. I was ahead at about the two-thirds point but no telling if the lead would have held up as everyone else seemed to be catching up on the learning curve rather quickly. Hope to get through a full game sometime soon, perhaps at next week's session.

The other group of five gamers (Gabe, Nicole, Sarah, Paul and Clayton) played a game of Bucket King followed by a Beowulf game that barely got completed as the Community Center started closing down for the evening. At first the scores showed a tie between Gabe and Paul, but then a five-point bonus for coming through the game unscathed was enough to give Paul a narrow victory.

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