Wednesday, June 9, 2010

June 3, 2010 Session Report

First session of this year's summer session with the 9 PM close time. We had a total of six in attendance: Mike, Doug H, Paul, Ron, Don and myself. Played a total of four different games: San Juan, Forbidden Island (x4), Maori and Fresco. It was the first time for Forbidden Island and Fresco at the club, as both games are recent new releases.

First up was San Juan, a four-player. Scores were John 35, Doug H 30 Paul 25 and Mike 21. I got the Guild Hall, City Hall and a Chapel to run away with the game. Mike discarded an early Guild Hall and then had trouble getting a high bonus building.

Ron brought Forbidden Island, which wound up being played several times. It is a cooperative game where the players are trying to collect some treasures and exit the island before it sinks. First game, all six of us played although the rules suggest you limit the number of players to four. We found that with six the negative cards came up too quickly before players could react and prepare damage. For the remaining three games, Ron, Don and I played with three, losing the first one but winning the last two, including one where we started at a higher difficulty rule and played with a variant that the turned in treasure cards are removed from the game, making it more difficult as the negative cards came out sooner.

The other three (Mike, Doug H and Paul) played a couple of games that Doug had brought. Maori, an island-hopping game, proved to be a close one, won by Mike. Scores were Mike 50, Doug 47, Paul 34. Doug pulled away to win the Fresco game, scores were Doug 97 Paul 74 Mike 72.

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