December 13, 2007 Session Report

For this week's session, we had a total of eight gamers in attendance: Paul, Doug, Sarah, Clayton, Neil, Ben, Larry and myself. We played a total of nine different games: Lost Cities, Ticket to Ride, Ingenious, Skip-Bo, Guillotine, Power Grid, Coloretto, Settlers of Catan, and R-Eco (4x).

Some details follow.

Paul and I were the first to arrive and we were able to wrap up a quick hand of Lost Cities by the time everyone else began to arrive. We split into two groups for the first round of games. Sarah won a close Ticket to Ride (US) game against Paul, Doug and Clayton. Neil and I started a game of Ingenious, and Larry joined in; I managed to win with Larry a close second in a game where all three of us had the same "worst" color (yellow).

By this time Ben had arrived, and he, Larry, Neil, Paul and I played a five-player Power Grid using the new deck and the US Map. The game was completed in near-record time (an hour and a half) when Ben built to his 15th city at a time when most of the rest of us were banking on another turn. Final scores were Ben 13, Larry 12, Neil 11, John 11, Paul 10. At the other table, Clayton, Doug and Sarah played Skip-Bo and Guillotine; Doug won both games.

We re-shuffled players and games after this and Ben, Larry, Neil and Paul wound up playing Coloretto -- no report on the winner of this one. Sarah, Doug, Clayton and I played Settlers -- first game for Sarah, who seemed to pick up the game fairly well, taking both Largest Army and then Longest Road to finish just one point ahead of Doug, 10-9, with Clayton and I far in arrears. Finally, at the other table, Larry and Neil had left, but Paul and Ben decided to see how R-Eco played with just two players. Turned out they both seemed to enjoy it, as they played a total of four games, each scoring two wins.