Artificium & Ra - 29 June 2017

Another play of Artificium, a clever resource chaining card game.  David scored 62, Andy and James both 54.  The rules claim that "if two or more players have the same number of victory points the game is tied and all tying players win!" which suggest Andy and James were the joint winners, but we generously allowed David his victory.

We played Ra - for the first time in quite a long while.  Lots of fun and winding up as usual.  Andy just squeaked a win by a single point.  Final scores Andy 50, James 49 and David 31.

Artificium - 11 August

James' second new game of the evening was introduced as a "typical David game". Artificium plays quickly over five turns and is about building up production lines by chaining the playing of cards to maximise your point score. There's a slightly nasty part where one of the cards lets you select a player to send back which smells a little of kingmaking for all good Rivals but if it's in the rules...

As predicted, David won, but only just...

David 58, Kieron 56, Andy 54 and James 47