Friday, June 6, 2008

June 5, 2008 Session Report

There were a total of six gamers in attendance for this week's session: Clayton, Paul, Nick, Doug, Helen and myself. We added four new games to the club collection (the second wave of games from the recent PG County grant). Three of them were among the games played, which included For Sale, Anno 1503, Ticket to Ride-Switzerland, Moose in the House, Slide 5 (a new version of Category 5) plus another run at the prototype I brought from last week.

First game up was one of the new ones, For Sale, and it was a four-player with Doug, Paul, Nick and myself competing -- final scores were John 67 Doug 60 Nick 52 Paul 40. By then Clayton and Helen had arrived and we split into two groups of three. Helen, Doug and Nick played Anno 1503, and my sources later informed me that Doug won a close game with Helen in second. That same group then also played Moose in the House, sorry no report on who won that one.

At the other table, Clayton, Paul and I also got through two games. First, it was Ticket to Ride-Switzerland and I just kept drawing tickets, not completing all of them but enough of them to wind up first (with the bonuses for most tickets and longest train) at 134 with Paul (who completed all seven tickets) second at 111 followed by Clayton with 79. Then we played that prototype game from last week with a different set of action cards that kept the score down considerably. The game turned out to be a well-deserved win for Clayton, with 19 to 16 for John and 3 (!) for Paul, who was figuratively and literally "cursed" through the whole game.

We ended up with Slide 5, the latest version of Take 6/Category 5 with a skiing theme. All six of us participated and we managed to sneak in three hands before the nine o'clock witching hour. Final scores (remember low numbers are best) were Paul 21 Doug 33 John 40 Helen 43 Clayton 44 with Nick bringing up the rear at 72.

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