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Had a great time playing Dominion, Puerto Rico, Blockus, and Set on Saturday.
Saturday started with a bit of mini-golf at Rocky Gorge (south of Columbia) -- the course needs a bit of TLC, but still plays well. The singing pine tree was belting out country tunes. The well with the bucket succeeded in mocking us, as did other mechanical hindrances. But I think we all had fun.
Four games of Dominion (basic set only), each very different. One game included the witch and curses, which I used to the distress of my opponents. I think the village was in all four games, and was usually the first supply pile to vanish.
Puerto Rico started slowly, but ended with a fabulous mind-strangling effort to squeeze out one more round, as players tried to figure out their best exit strategies. We weren't sure if we'd run out of colonists or victory points first, and I still wanted to buy a large building as others were trying to maximize points by placement of colonists.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blueeowyn was trying to hasten the ending before her chances of winning crashed to the ground.
Set was an interesting puzzle-matching game -- appealed to my OCD. I can see it as an addictive solitaire game.
I've played a bit of Blockus one-on-one with Blueeowyn, but playing a four-person game totally rocks. It reminded me a bit of Go in some ways, and now I wonder what Go would be like with four people.
Ended the weekend playing Quirkle Cubes with Blueeowyn over a dinner of take-out sub sandwiches. Nom. I thought she was going to stomp me into the ground, but a couple of fortunate rolls of the dice made the ending very close. She won, but only by two points.
Saturday started with a bit of mini-golf at Rocky Gorge (south of Columbia) -- the course needs a bit of TLC, but still plays well. The singing pine tree was belting out country tunes. The well with the bucket succeeded in mocking us, as did other mechanical hindrances. But I think we all had fun.
Four games of Dominion (basic set only), each very different. One game included the witch and curses, which I used to the distress of my opponents. I think the village was in all four games, and was usually the first supply pile to vanish.
Puerto Rico started slowly, but ended with a fabulous mind-strangling effort to squeeze out one more round, as players tried to figure out their best exit strategies. We weren't sure if we'd run out of colonists or victory points first, and I still wanted to buy a large building as others were trying to maximize points by placement of colonists.
blueeowyn was trying to hasten the ending before her chances of winning crashed to the ground.Set was an interesting puzzle-matching game -- appealed to my OCD. I can see it as an addictive solitaire game.
I've played a bit of Blockus one-on-one with Blueeowyn, but playing a four-person game totally rocks. It reminded me a bit of Go in some ways, and now I wonder what Go would be like with four people.
Ended the weekend playing Quirkle Cubes with Blueeowyn over a dinner of take-out sub sandwiches. Nom. I thought she was going to stomp me into the ground, but a couple of fortunate rolls of the dice made the ending very close. She won, but only by two points.
