1. With
only 6 players tonight played as one group. First up was a topical game of “Election”, a game first published in 1972
but which has stood the test of time. Geoff rose quickly in the Popularity
Index so we started to campaign against him. As the board became more congested
other conflicts broke out as we tried to swing the votes our way. Rob sneaked
ahead and not enough parties campaigned against him to prevent the election
being called early before the rest of us could complete our planned forays into
other territories. In the final tally Rob’s Student vote was enough to secure
him seats in London to win the game. The final seats won were Liberals 171;
Conservatives 130; Socialists 104; Labour 91; Independents 86; Nationalists 50.
I wonder if a similar result will happen next week ?
2. We
then played a simple card game called “Penguin
Parade”, about building a pyramid of penguins in different outfits! Rob soon sussed out the mechanism and looked a
certain winner until the last round of 5, when he bombed out and Geoff tied
with him. The 2 of them played a tie-break round which Rob won easily for his
second win of the night.
3. We finished
with a game of “11 NIMMT”, a card
game about getting rid of all your cards. We all tried to prevent Rob getting his
hat trick of wins and going into the last round Geoff was just ahead, with Mike
and Rob tied just 2 points behind . In a tense finish Rob had a choice of 2
places to play his card…and chose the wrong one, allowing Geoff to go out and
win the game by 2 points. Hard luck Rob.
Games played and Winners were:
Election
Robert Piesse;
Penguin
Parade Robert Piesse;
11
Nimmt Geoff Williams
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