November 17

The first game up was Evergreen. Kimberly won by a fair margin.

Next came Split. This is a card game that bears a strong resemblance to Sequence. The general consensus was that this game has more strategic depth than Sequence, primarily because the placement of chips is less restricted by the cards than it is in Sequence. We played two games, with three teams of 2: Bob & Kimberly, Stephanie & Royal and, Eric & Carol. Bob & Kimberly won the first game. Stephanie & Royal won the second.

At this point, Royal volunteered to go out and pick up dinner for everyone. While waiting for Royal to return, Bob, Eric, Kimberly, Rachel and Stephanie played Dragon’s Gold (see 10/13/01). Rachel got the “Invisible Hand” card which Carol was able to use so successfully on October 13 but, was only able to steal one treasure before she was caught. Bob won. Royal returned before the game was finished and, while waiting, he and Carol played Atlantis.

Next, Bob, Carol, Eric, Kimberly, Royal and Stephanie played Hare & Tortoise (see 11/05/00). Bob won easily, Royal came in second, Carol in third, Eric in fourth. Stephanie and Kimberly both ended up near the finish line with way too many carrots. Kimberly ended up backing up 34 spaces so she could use most of her carrots in one long run and, she crossed the finish line in fifth place.

The last game of the evening was Landlord! Unfortunately, we got the timing of the rent payments wrong and collected rents at the beginning of the turn rather than at the end, which screwed up the strategy somewhat. Stephanie won.

About 10 minutes before midnight, several of us went out back to look for meteors. We saw one really spectacular meteor and, then another about 15 or 20 minutes later. Then we all went back in and said good night.