Attendance bounced back up to 12 this week, as regulars Doug, Paul, Abe, Gabe, Ben, Nick, Sarah and myself were joined by Joan (Sarah's mom), Tucker, Bob and Susanne (friend of Gabe's). We played a bunch of games, including Wicked Witches Way, Clock Solitaire, Lost Cities, Hamburgum, Settlers -- Kandahar variant, Ingenious, Quiddler, Saboteur, Hollywood Blockbuster, and Category Five. Hard to keep track of everything, so here are the highlights as I was able to jot them down ...
First up was Wicked Witches Way, a game Doug brought that involved quick reactions where you tried to match your cards with dice combinations. I didn't do very well, winding up last, Gabe was the winner ahead of Doug, who got to the end first but lost out because Gabe had collected a couple of bonus point cards. Nick, Paul and Abe also participated.
Sarah arrived, set up a game of Clock Solitaire but wound up playing a couple of Lost Cities hands with Ben while the first game was wrapping up. We then broke into two groups, one group (Sarah, Doug, Gabe and Paul) played a Settlers variant, Settlers of Kandaharr -- no report on who won. The other group (Abe, Nick, Ben and myself) played a new release, Hamburgum, which is about setting up an infrastructure to score points by making "contributions" to one of six churches using the "Rondel" mechanism from two earlier games (Antike and Imperial) by the same designer. I was the only one with any experience (having played once before), so I managed to win with 78 to 66 for Ben, and Abe nipping Nick by one, 58-57, to avoid coming in last. This same group of four then played Hollywood Blockbuster, which Nick had brought, and the results were exactly the opposite: Nick over Abe by one (81 to 80) while Ben scored 64, three ahead of me in last place. Nick did well to score 30 pts in Oscars, twice for best movies in the early years and also for best Gold picture while Ben edged me out for the 10 pt. bonus for the crappiest movie.
Other games played (and what results I have) included Joan over Sarah, 209-175, in Quiddler; Bob over Tucker in a close game of Ingeious, no report on the Saboteur game, and then the finale -- Category 5, which was an 8-player free-for-all, final scores (remember low numbers are good): Bob 22 Sarah 23 Doug 40 Gabe 40 Susanne 47 Joan 53 Tucker 57 and Paul 67.
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Correction on the name of one of the games played last week. The Settlers variant played is called Candamir: The First Settlers. There is no game called Kandaherr. Sorry for the error.
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