Six of us again tonight so another outing for Reiner Knizia's Medici - winner of Spiel des Jahres in 1995. As always with bidding games, lots of fun to be had with the Derren-ing and the judgement of whether better cards would turn up later. In the first round, Adrian failed to secure any cards, saving money and still leaving him ahead of other players but failing to establish any footholds up the pyramids for the second and third rounds. Kieron, David and Orhan had strong hands each round but Andy's previous natural strength at this game didn't come through tonight. James started off with an expensive first round and was trailing until the third round when he managed to win a set of cards including the neutral 10 and extra metals to give him the monopoly bonus. Together these meant he managed to better Kieron's description of "coming from behind to storm into fifth place" to end up just one point behind Kieron's winning position. Final scores Kieron 80, James 79, David 74, Orhan 70, Andy 65 and Adrian 64.
Hoping for third time lucky, James brought out Bang! again with the desperate wish of lasting longer than one turn. Drawing the Sheriff meant that at least there were two other players who didn't want to see him dead - at least not straight away. A slow start as most players equipped themselves with weapons but then Orhan and Andy revealed their true colours by shooting at James. James managed to kill off Orhan but then Deputy Kieron blew himself up with his own dynamite. David then softened up James for Andy to finish him off. A fun short game.
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