January 23, 2014 Session Report

We had a group of eight for this week's session:  Patrick, Doug, Mike, Tim, Alex, Ben, Eric and myself.  Four games were played:  American Rails, Compounded, 7 Wonders (played twice) and Carnival.  Compounded and Carnival were both new to the club, having been purchased or won as prizes at the recent Unpub4 convention in Delaware that Mike and I had attended on the prior weekend (Jan. 18-19).

Eric ran away with the American Ralis game, final scores were Eric 146, Ben 120, Tim 87, Patrick 79, Mike 76.  (Another great job of teaching by Mike, who brought up the rear this time.)  The other game was Compounded, which involves putting together chemical elements to form compounds without blowing up the lab.  The game had a real close finish, final scores:  John 68 Alex 65 Doug 57.

Everyone but Alex stayed for the second round of games.  One group played 3-player 7 Wonders and played quickly enough to get two games in.  Scores of Game 1:  Ben 50 Eric 42 Tim 36.  Game 2:  Eric 67 Tim 65 Ben 51.

The rest of us tried Carnival, a card game that Mike had won as a prize at Unpub.  Everyone was trying to become the first to complete three of four carnival rides.  We didn't quite make it to the finish, but Doug was declared the winner (with 2 completed rides and 7 other cards in play), John second (2 rides, 6 cards in play), while Patrick and Mike had one completed ride and were bringing up the rear (although I recall hearing how much better off their position would be after just "one more turn").