Let see - here is what I got in over the holiday: Dice Town, Witches Brew, Kingburg (with expansion), Dominion, Ingenious, and Pandemic (with expansion).
It would have been more but one of the people we had over got a call from their oldest because a younger sibling had tried to microwave a pancake for 15 minutes. Needless to say the smoke filled the house, the smoke alarms were going off, and they STILL have not gotten rid of the smell. The microwave is currently located in the garage. On Nov 30, 5:36 pm, Casey Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving, my family all got together > for the first time in 4 years. Did you guys get any games played? Here's > what we managed to get on the table > > *Ghost Stores:* Played two games, one 4-player and one 3-player. We lost our > first game right before the incarnation of Wu-Feng showed up. We won our > 3-player game against the Vampire Lord with the typical co-op shifty playing > ("Oh take that back and let me do this and this then you go do that, no play > that card over here, etc"). It's a pretty fun co-op game, I liked making up > different styles of kung fu like Drunken Fist. It's not nearly as good as > Arkham Horror (but that's OK because I put AH in the adventure game category > not co-op) but it's more fun than Pandemic and not as balls out hard as Lord > of the Rings. > > *Rummikub:* My dad is more of a card player but he recently discovered > Rummikub so I played a couple of games with him, my oldest brother and one > of my nephews. I was pleased to coach my nephew to victory in our first > game. > > *Saboteur:* My family loves Saboteur, so of course we had to play at least > one game. We played one game of 3 rounds. In the second round my > sister-in-law and my brother had my other brother so convinced they were not > saboteurs that we all thought he was a saboteur. From there on out it got > very hard to tell who was what. > > *Netrunner:* Tried to start up and learn this game several times before > managing two complete games, both of which I lost as the Corporate side. I > like it quite a bit so far, I even checked out Snow Crash from the library > to get me in the cyberpunk spirit. > > *World Cup Game:* Started off with a 2-player game with my major gaming bro > with the Uruguay 1930 version to learn the rules. Then introduced to our > nongaming but competitive brother with 3-player 1930 version, then 4-player > 1930 version with minor gaming brother. Then I managed to convince them all > to play the longer 2002 South Korea/Japan version on our last night with > everybody there. Everybody liked the game quite a bit but I think my > nongamer brother and minor gamer brother preferred the shorter 1930 version, > but my major gaming brother and I liked the variability of the 2002 version. > The first half of the 2002 version takes a long time to play through and > it's hard to keep track of what's going on with your 8 teams' 3 games in > each group, but it's still tense and the tension only racks up even more > once you reach the knock-out rounds. My best team was Turkey (red team), my > minor gaming brother had South Korea, my nongaming brother had both Brazil > and Germany and my major gaming brother just had a scattering of blue teams > that he played really well. He actually managed to knock out my Turkey with > England in the Group of 8 in a penalty shoot out. There were a lot of shoot > outs in the Group of 8 and beyond which was pretty exciting. In the end my > nongaming brother won with Brazil. Definitely a super fun game, I think > playing with 5-6 players would be the sweet spot for the 2002 version. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "utah county boardgamers association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ucboardgamers?hl=en.
