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Monday 15th December 2008

I'm think it was nine again this week. Memory's a bit hazy, and the scores are on the back of a post office till receipt!

Players:

Darren, David F-F, David H, Mark H, Mark P, Mel, Nick, Rachel, Simone

Games Played:

Shut the Box  

Game 1

David F-F:    41
Rachel:    51
Darren:    63

Game 2

Rachel:    35
David F-F:    50
Darren:    71

Those two games were played with the wrong rules.  Luckily, I came along to sort them out ....

Game 3

David F-F:    33    (Managed to "Shut the Box")
Darren:    15
Nick:    36
Rachel:    50

Mow

Darren:    48
Rachel:    54
David F-F:    72
Nick:    124

I definitely get picked on in this one.  Anytime an impossible situation can be passed to me, it is!

Shadow Hunters

Mel:    (Franklin -- Hunter)
Mark H:    (Emi -- Hunter)
David F-F:    (Allie -- Neutral)
Darren:    (Daniel -- Neutral):        All won because the Shadows died
Mark H:    (Charles -- Neutral):        Didn't win.
Nick:    (Unknown -- Shadow)    
Rachel:    (Werewolf -- Shadow):        Died, and lost.

Rachel and I got hammered in this one!  It didn't help that she was the one who killed me (although I had lied when she tried to find out who I was).  A good win for practically everybody else.

We now split into two groups.

Dominion

Starter set of cards

Rachel:    39 
David F-F:    34
Mel:    30
Mark H:    27

A good win for Rachel here.  Enjoyed by all, if I remember correctly.

Keythedral

(Points + Cubes)

David H:    (40 + 0)    40
Simone:    (36 + 4)    40
Nick:    (28 + 8)    36
Darren:    (34 + 1)    35
Mark P:    (28 + 5)    33

This was a very good game (as it always is, really) and pretty close too.  David managed to score 24 points in the very last turn to boost himself from last to tied first.  Simone spent the whole game moaning that she didn't know what she was going, as usual, and then won.  As usual.

Qwirkle 

Mark H:    120
Rachel:    112
David F-F:    107
Mel:    88

Coloretto

Darren:    26
David H:    23
Nick:    19
Simone:    19
Mark P:    16

We were just playing this one until the Qwirkle game finished, and as it turned out we only had time for one round.

Six of us were left at this point .....

Hoppladi Hopplada  

David F-F:    408
Darren:    264
Rachel:    217
Simone:    183
David H:    148
Nick:    0

I was sitting on Simone's right, and she never passed me a single good position.  Although she did manage to score 183, so that kind of knocks that excuse on the head.  A good win for David in the final game of the night.

And that was it for this week. Next week, it's the last one before Christmas, so it's "party games" night!