June 4, 2009 Session Report

We had a total attendance of nine (9) for this week's session: Doug, Ben, Paul, Don, Greg, Ron, Christie, Chris and myself were present. A total of six different games were played, a few of them had multiple plays: Qwirkle Cubes, Lost Cities (x2), Power Boats (x3), Grand Prix Circus, Ghost Stories and Too Many Cooks.

We started with Qwirkle Cubes. This game was won by Doug, who took an early lead and just ran away with the game. Second place was hotly contested between Ben and Paul, I finished last. Final scores: Doug 113, Ben 84, Paul 79, John 62. The six-point bonus for going out first was needed for Ben to take second place ahead of Paul.

Lost Cities once again proved to be a nice filler while people were waiting for games to finish. Don (playing against Greg) and Chris (playing against Christie) won the Lost Cities games, not sure they had time for more than one hand per game. Power Boats was played on three different occasions; no report on the first game, but I was in two of the later games which Don won easily. Grand Prix Circus is a formula 1 management and racing game that Don, Ron and I trotted out and plan to try out in the next few sessions. We barely got started, so no results thus far although things look promising for Ron's McLaren team headed into the first race of the season.

Ghost Stories is a co-operative game, and I am pleased to report that Ben, Doug, Greg and Paul worked together to exorcise the ghosts and win the game despite things looking a bit bleak early on in the game. Nice going, guys!

Finally, there was a four-player game of Too Many Cooks, which Greg brought, final scores were Paul 18 Greg 14 Doug 14 Ben zero. To make Ben's score even seem worse, keep in mind everyone starts out with five points in the bank to begin with. Nice going there, Ben, but at least he played a major role in helping exorcise the ghosts.

Hope to see everyone back next week, along with some of the folks who have been absent in recent weeks (you know who you are).