A nice drive out to Andy's place for a four-man games night - numbers depleted at the last minute by infection and chess! First game was an old favourite - El Grande. We haven't played this for 18 months and it is starting to look rather underwhelming compared with the production values of more recent games. But underneath it's still a cracker, with a fair bit of opportunity for crown-like behaviour.
David had a great game, getting the additional 8-pointer scoring tile onto his home territory early on, and securing it with the king for the most part - giving him 12 points several times. Kieron got nobbled by circumstance a few times and seemed to spend most turns only deploying one man onto the board. Andy and James fought a close battle for 2nd place in the middle. Final scores David 114, Andy & James 104 and Kieron on 76.
Not quite enough time to squeeze in another game of Pelopennese, so we had a game of Dixit instead - the card game with slightly disturbing images. Kieron had a blinder and got miles ahead but then stalled three points from the finishing post, giving James time to catch up and snatch victory. Final scores James 30, Kieron 29, David 18 and Andy 15.
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Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Dixit & Ra - 30 March 2011
With Kieron running late, we thought we'd try out Stuart's new-ish game Dixit. This is last year's Spiel des Jahres winner and isn't immediately obvious as a Rivals game but we really enjoyed it. Each player has six cards with fairy-tale/surreal images on them. The active player (the storyteller) says a word or phrase (well-known or made up) and plays face down an image they think represents what they've said. Everyone else plays a card they think matches, and then after a quick shuffle, all cards are turned face up and all but the storyteller vote for which image they think is the one belonging to the storyteller.
The clever bit is that if the storyteller's phrase and image are too obviously connected and everyone selects his image, he gets no points and they all get two. Similarly, if the phrase was too oblique, and no-one selects his image, he against gets nothing whilst everyone else gets two points. But if some people select his image and some don't, the storyteller and correct voters get 3 points, and anyone whose image was voted on by another player gets an extra 1 point. Really good fun. Kieron turned up after just one round but remained a few points behind, with everyone else pretty close and tussling for first place. Final scores: Andy 32, James 28, Orhan and Stuart on 27 and Kieron 23.
After that short game, we then played old favourite Ra. Andy played Russian Roulette in all three epochs, sadly getting the loaded chamber every time, and so struggled to get many points. Lots of Derren-ing as usual with the game coming down to who had the highest score of Sun tokens at the end, taking James ahead of Stu. Final scores James 47, Stuart 45, Kieron 33, Orhan 29, Andy 12.
The clever bit is that if the storyteller's phrase and image are too obviously connected and everyone selects his image, he gets no points and they all get two. Similarly, if the phrase was too oblique, and no-one selects his image, he against gets nothing whilst everyone else gets two points. But if some people select his image and some don't, the storyteller and correct voters get 3 points, and anyone whose image was voted on by another player gets an extra 1 point. Really good fun. Kieron turned up after just one round but remained a few points behind, with everyone else pretty close and tussling for first place. Final scores: Andy 32, James 28, Orhan and Stuart on 27 and Kieron 23.
After that short game, we then played old favourite Ra. Andy played Russian Roulette in all three epochs, sadly getting the loaded chamber every time, and so struggled to get many points. Lots of Derren-ing as usual with the game coming down to who had the highest score of Sun tokens at the end, taking James ahead of Stu. Final scores James 47, Stuart 45, Kieron 33, Orhan 29, Andy 12.
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