April 29, 2006

We had the smallest group in quite some time for gaming on Saturday. Scott Percival couldn’t make it so it was Bob and Carol and Dave and Noreen for most of the day. Jason and Alex Ruvinsky joined us for one late night game of Elfenland. It was still a very fun time. The Tote Board is below (winner first).

• Can’t Stop - Noreen, Dave, Bob, Carol. (Noreen showed us how she won the Can’t Stop tournament at the Gathering of Friends. Good, quick filler, dice game with some tough decisionmaking.)
• Ticket to Ride: Marklin - Noreen 174, Dave 160, Carol 156, Bob 141 (The newest Ticket to Ride game did not disappoint. Passengers who travel from city to city collecting victory points add quite a bit of tension to a normally laid-back game.)
• Silberzwerg - Dave 509, Noreen 485, Bob 441, Carol 389 (One of my recent acquisitions, this is a good set collection game of dwarves digging for gems to fulfill contracts. Lots of backstabby goodness! Everyone enjoyed it.)
• Tichu - Dave and Carol 945, Bob and Noreen 55 (Tichu is an ancient, highly popular card game with lots of strategy. This was an absolute disaster of a game. Dave got good hand after good hand. A complete slaughter.)
• Elfenland - Bob 18 (5 cards), Carol 18 (3 cards), Alex 18 (a card), Dave 17, Noreen 16, Jason 16 (Great game. We played with the “home village” variant which added another level of strategy. I won on the tie-breaker.)

Not a lot of games played but three of the five were new to me and four out of five were new to Carol. Looking forward to playing some of these again at Babycon.

Bob