Friday, June 27, 2008

June 26, 2008 Session Report

We had seven gamers for this week's session, as Greg returned along with Clayton (who had missed a couple of sessions), Nick, Ben, Paul, Sarah and myself.

First game up was the Ticket to Ride card game that I had won in a contest, and I wound up winning a four-player ahead of Nick, Paul and Sarah. Meanwhile, Ben and Greg had arrived and challenged Clayton to a three-player game of Can't Stop -- turned out Clayton had not lost his touch as he rolled his way to the top while the conservative approach did not work out for Greg and Ben.

At this point we reshuffled the players and played a couple of more games. Modern Art (which Greg brought) was featured in a four-player game which Nick won, and Ben and I also participated along with Greg. The other group of Clayton, Paul and Sarah played Carcassone-Discovery which was won by Paul. Sarah, who was new to the Carcassone series of games, enjoyed it and finished second her first time out.

We wound up the evening with a couple of hands of Slide 5. Nick and Ben, convinced there was no strategy to the game, decided to play random but it didn't work out as they got stuck with a bunch of negative points. Paul, with a total of 11 from the two hands, was declared the winner once we saw the 9 o'clock witching hour was approaching.

Hope to see some of you at the Picnic this weekend, if not at next week's session. Just got word that a couple of new games I have been waiting on for some time (Wealth of Nations and the English edition of Tribune) have arrived so I hope to have them on hand next week.

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