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Monday 15th September 2008
Nine of us in the pub this week ...
Players:
David
F-F, Haydn, Lesley, Mark P, Mel, Neil C, Nick, Rich, Sue
Games Played:
The first six through the door were straight into this new favourite opener ....
Rich:
(15 + 22) 37
Sue:
(12 + 12) 24
Nick: (10 + 8) 18
Neil: (9 + 0) 9
Haydn: (6 + 0) 6
Lesley: 0
Push your luck games always go down well on our games nights, which is probably why this one is proving so popular at the moment!
Still at six but expecting more, we went for another quickie .....
Haydn:
(55 + 2) 57
Lesley:
(44 + 4) 48
Rich: (36 + 11) 47
Neil: (40 + 6) 46
Sue: (34 + 4) 38
Nick: (29 + 4) 33
Haydn and Lesley made up for their performance in the first game with much better showings here! I did very poorly in this one, choosing to take the "1" property when I had first bid, giving everyone else the chance to take much bigger ones for free. Schoolboy error.
We were now up to 9 gamers, so we split into a five and a four. This was the choice of the five.
Rich:
(23 + 3) 26
Neil: (16 + 6) 22
Sue: (14 + 7) 21
Lesley: (7 + 7) 14 (8)
Nick:
(10 + 4) 14 (7)
This is a fun new game. However, I'm not very good at it! It's half about picking the characters that the other players don't (or alternatively picking the same character as the bloke on your left when he's going first!), and half about reading the players on your left when you have to decide whether anyone else has chosen the character that you now have to play. In one memorable round, we'd all taken our actions from our cards and Rich had still got four cards in his hand ... Four characters that only he chose that round. That was pretty tough to recover from ....
And the other four were off to America ....
Mel:
89
David:
77
Mark: 76
Haydn: 66
I don't know a whole lot about this one. In fact, I know almost nothing. Mel grabbed a pretty impressive victory, thanks to scoring a whole bunch of points from the gold and coal tokens.
Despite both games finishing at the same time, we stayed in the same groups for the next round ....
Sue:
58
Neil:
33
Nick: 25
Lesley: 24
Rich:
6
This is an interesting game. I think we all ended wanting to try it again once we'd figured out what the heck we were supposed to be doing! Sue absolutely wiped the floor with all of us, managing to make every crate she picked up count in some way, whereas Rich had just as many crates in warehouses, but none of them counted as he was out-bought in each one.
The other four were off to Rome ....
(Pecunia non Olet scenario)
Haydn:
4
Mel:
3
David:
2
Mark: 2
I know nothing about this one at all. It was possibly the longest game of Tribune we've seen, but it looks like Haydn managed to end it before a count-back was required.
The group of five had a quick game of this while waiting for Tribune to end ....
Rich:
(11 - 3) 8
Lesley: (4 - 2) 2
Neil: (5 - 3) 2
Sue: (7 - 6) 1
Nick:
(9 - 9) 0
Always a bit of fun this one.
And finally, the eight remaining players were off to the diamond mines .....
Neil:
26
Sue:
20
Mel: 19
Haydn: 14
David: 13
Lesley: 12
Nick: 11
Mark:
10
This one was pretty close ... for the bottom five places! Neil was the master of timing his exits from the mine, with Sue and Mel not far behind him. The rest of us got caught in the "I'm behind, so I have to stay in" trap, until we all ducked out at some point just to try not to be last! Sadly, Mark took that prize by a single point from me.
And that was all for another week. Thanks to those that came along, and we'll see you all next time.
