This week we had a total of nine attendees, one of whom was attending her first session at the club. Gabe, Paul, Nicole, Beth, Eric, Clayton and myself were joined by Sarah who brought her mom, Joan, to the club. While Joan was new to the club, she was not new to gaming and was familiar with a couple of the games we played.
The first five to arrive (Gabe, Nicole, Paul, Beth and myself) played Turn the Tide, aptly described as "Category 5 on Steroids" -- with five players, we played five hands (passing each hand around the table) and the winner was Gabe with 17 with Nicole in second at 13, everyone else had 9. The second group to arrive (consisting of Eric, Clayton, Joan and Sarah) decided not to wait around and played a four-player Blokus Trigon, won by Sarah who got all her pieces on the board.
We then split up for two more games, with the five-player group of Gabe, Sarah, Paul, Joan and Clayton playing Boomtown (won by Sarah) and Ticket to Ride (won by Gabe). The rest of us (Eric, Beth, Nicole and myself) played Himalaya, which ended in a victory for yours truly over Eric, 32-29 on yak points after Beth was eliminated on stupas and then Nicole on political influence.
The next round of games say Clayton joining Eric and me for a series of Sequence games, which wound up being a total of five games, Eric winning three and me two while Clayton was (surprisingly) shut out although this has become a recent favorite game. The other game was Queens Necklace, with the final scores reported as Gabe 120 Paul 80 Sarah 60 and Joan 20.
With around a half hour left in the session, the entire group played three hands of Category 5, with Paul hanging on to win despite being zinged for 22 points on the final hand. Sarah came in a respectable second place while Eric was a close third.
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In Himalaya, I thought Nicole was eliminated on Stupas, and Beth on political influence.
Eric, I believe you are right. Checking my notes, which I was about to toss, I did have Nicole (the only person new to the game) in fourth and not third, meaning she was knocked out of contention first (on stupas).
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