A total of eight gamers appeared for tonight's session: Paul, Gabe, Doug, Carlos, Clayton, Eric, Helen and myself. Games played were Can't Stop (twice), the Hot New Essen game (Cuba), Blokus-Trigon, Lost Cities, Boomtown, Guillotine, Coloretto, Sequence (4x), San Juan, and Take 6.
Details: Paul, Gabe and I arrived a bit early and started up a game of Can't Stop which Doug joined in. Paul won with a conservative approach and edged out Gabe for the win by getting his second and third numbers on the same die roll. By then Carlos, Clayton and Eric had arrived and they played a series of games while the four of us went on to try out the hot new game from Essen -- Cuba -- that will be featured as part of the Wild Card event at next week's EuroQuest convention. It was a close game and wound up in a dead tie between Gabe and Doug, at 85 pts apiece. Gabe tried an early money strategy while Doug went for lots of buildings -- both went for the building that gets you victory point for your production good (be it cigars or rum). I came in third at 74 with Paul not far behind at 72. The game appeared to be well received, and it moved on at a steady pace after an not unexpectedly slow first turn while everyone was figuring out what to do.
Meanwhile, there were several games completed by the trio at the other table. Blokus-Trigon was won by Eric who managed to get all his pieces on the board. Eric also took top honors in the Guillotine game, scoring 28 to outpace Carlos (17) and Clayton (10). It was a different story in Can't Stop as Clayton won over Carlos with Eric in last. Eric bounced back to score another win in Coloretto, 38 to 31 for Carlos with Clayton in third. Then Carlos had to leave and Clayton took on Eric in four two-player Sequence games, which ended in a 4-0 whitewash for Eric.
With less than an hour to go, Eric joined the four of us for a five-player Boomtown game that was won by Paul, who used the Blue Governor to make mucho bucks. Final scores on this one were Paul 78, Eric 69, John 64, Doug 63 and Gabe 56. Helen arrived midway through this game and challenged Clayton to a game of San Juan which Helen won decisively, 30-16, just as time ran out. Doug, Eric, Paul and I got in two hands of 6 Nimmt (Take 6), and I didn't as soon not report the scores but I got 40-plus on one hand to wind up far behind with 67 (remember high numbers in this game are not what you want) wheres Paul managed single digits with nine (yes, nine) to finish ahead of Eric (14) and Doug (17).
Hope everyone had a good time. One more session (next Thursday night) with EuroQuest to follow the following Veteran's Day Weekend.
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