Thursday, March 19, 2009

March 19, 2009 Session Report

We had our best attendance in some time, as a total of 14 made tonight's session, including a couple of first-timers to the club. Regular attendees Doug, Paul, Mike, Ron, Don, Gabe, Clayton, Chris and myself were joined by Doug M., Greg, Eric S., along with Neil and Robert, who joined Eric for the last hour or so of the session. Games played were Parlay, Automobile, Through the Ages, Roll Through the Ages (x4), Powerboats (x3), Cloud Nine and R-Eco. Details follow, although there was so much going on, it was tough to keep up as we had 2-3 games going just about throughout the entire session.

First up was a quick hand of Parlay, which Mike won before we abandoned it to try some other games. First up for a group of five intrepid would be automakers was a prototype of Martin Wallace's Automobile, based on a mockup of the game I had seen at PrezCon. Turned out Clayton was the the #1 auto mogul, winning with an impressive score of $4730 (including $2800 in endgame factory value). As the only person who had played before, I came home second with $3940 despite taking out two loans and also accumulating numerous loss cubes. Paul tried a more frugal approach that was good for third, with $3790. Mike came in at $3120, with Doug trailing at $2900.

Through the Ages turned out to be kind of a learning game with two new players. Gabe won just ahead of Greg, the top newcomer, in a four-player with Don and Ron that lasted just through the first age (the introductory version). By this time Doug M. and Chris arrived, so they played two quick games of Roll Through the Ages, both of which Doug won. Later, Eric and his two gaming friends (Neil and Richard) played two more games, first one a three-player (won by Neil) and the second a four-player, won by Gabe with the aforementioned trio, in a game in which everyone wound up with at least 20 points.

Powerboats was also a popular game at the club this week, played a total of three times. First game was won by Don (over Greg, Doug and Ron), then Greg came on to win games two and three. The Automobile game ran a bit longer than planned, but that group (Doug, Paul, Clayton, Mike and myself) managed to get in a game of Cloud Nine (won by Paul) and finally a four-player R-Eco, final scores Doug 11 John 7 Clayton 5 Paul 4.

I plan on being out of town next week and will perhaps miss as many as the next two sessions. I left some attendance and games played/games record sheet in the club notebooks, so I am hoping those who attend will help out in tracking attendance and games played. Have a great time!

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