Tuesday, April 26, 2011

April 21, 2011 Session Report

We had good attendance of ten for this week's session. Mike, Tim, Eric, Doug M, Doug H, Ethan (making his first appearance at our club), Brian, Patrick, Erik and myself were the players. We had two games going on at once for most of the session, and it turned out there were just two winners tonight, Brian and Eric, with Brian going undefeated.

At one table, Ethan, Brian, Doug H and I played a new game from the Mensa convention called Pastiche which Doug had brought. It was about matching colors, had some trading involved, then completing works of art by various painters to see who could score the most points. Final score counts: Brian 39, John 37, Ethan 33, Doug H 30. Erik joined us for the next game, which was Hoity Toity. Brian won that one by one space with John second, followed by Ethan, Doug and Erik. Brian kept his winning streak going by taking a four-player Cloud Nine, passing Doug on the final turn. Scores: Brian 56, Doug H 51, Ethan 42, John 26.

Meanwhile, at the other table, there was a five-player game of Automobile. Eric, who had not played before, won with a very good score of 5330, followed by Patrick (4320), Doug M (4100), Tim (3960) and Mike (3710). I believe it was Tim's first game, while the others had played before. Next up, the group started but abandoned a game of Innovation, then went for 7 Wonders. Final scores: Eric 57 Doug M 53 Tim 52 Mike 33.

Not being one to rest on his laurels (ooh, bad pun, given where we were playing), Eric joined the four of us at the other table for one more game of Cloud Nine to wrap up the evening's festivities. It came down to Brian and Eric, the two players who had won all their preceding games, and Brian won by a narrow margin. Final count: Brian 52, Eric 49, Doug H 39, John 35, Ethan 24. A big 25-point balloon trip helped Brian win that game.

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