Friday, January 30, 2009

January 29, 2009 Session Report

Attendance for this week's session was nine: Clayton, Gabe, Mike, Paul, Ron, Nick, Jonathan and myself were joining by Jim, who was attending his first session. We played a total of six games: Take It Easy, Agricola, Railroad Tycoon, New England, Wits and Wagers and Cloud Nine.

The short warm-up game for this session was Take It Easy, which I managed to win competing versus Clayton, Gabe and Paul. Soon others arrived and we started two longer games: One was Agricola, using the introductory family game, and that was won by Gabe ahead of Paul, Jim and Jonathan. The other five players (Mike, Ron, Nick, Clayton and myself played Railroad Tycoon after appropriating a second table for the oversized mapboard. Mike wound up the winner after securing a key route into Chicago. I was ahead until then and should have played a bit more defensively to keep Mike from winning. Final scores were 69 for Mike, 65 for John, 53 for Nick, 48 for Clayton, 41 for Ron.

New England was played after the Agricola game finished, and it was a real close game, won by Paul (34) ahead of Gabe (33) with Jim and Jonathan not far behind. The five of us from the Railroad Tycoon game followed up with Wits and Wagers (again won by Mike after I squandered an early lead) and then we finished up with Cloud Nine, which Nick won right before the clock struck 10, ending the session.

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