1. We
were 6 players to start with and we knew that Chris would be joining us later
so we started with “Turf Horse racing”,
which introduced newcomers Tim and Lucy to the game. By betting on similar
horses Tim and Lucy set the early lead
and with a stunning finish by Silver Blaze in the last race Tim was able to
secure his first victory since joining us.he and Lucy won easily with scores of
26 and 21 and Rob was third on 10 !!
2. With
Chris’s arrival we split into 2 groups. Mike introduced Tim, Lucy and Richard
to “Durch duie Wuste”, a game of
building camel trains through the desert. The players are trying to connect to
water holes and oases, to pick up tokens, whilst at thye same time they try to
enclose empty areas of desert, as these also bring points. A nice looking game,
taking about 20 minutes to explain and about 30 minutes to play. Lucy won with
83 points , beating Richard on 74. This was Lucy’s first win since joining us.
3. On
the other table a group of 3 played “Ticket
to Ride – Europe”, an expansion of the base game. Rob looked the likely
winner but was unable to connect the cities on his final card and the reduction
of points meant that Chris sneaked in with a narrow win.
4. Tim
and Lucy had to go at this stage so the remaining 5 players played “Adel Verpflichtet”, a game about
collection art treasures and exhibiting them in a castle. However doing so
invited the other players to send thieves along to steal things, and if a
Detective card was played by another player they nabbed the thieves, put them
in prison, and gained victory points for doing so. An unusual method for moving
your piece around the scoring track made
this game of the year in 1990 when it was first published. The group seemed to
like it and Mike looked the likely winner until the thieves of Chris and
Richard stole some items from his final collection, which enabled them to
display a more powerful collection of their own and they passed him, with Chris
the outright winner.
5. We
did not want Chris to gain a hat trick of wins so the rest of us made him ‘Mr
X’ in our final game of “Scotland Yard”,
a game whereby the 4 players were detectives trying to capture the elusive ‘Mr
X’, who was hiding in London. Chris was almost caught on 2 early occasions but
he was finally nabbed on turn 17, so we claimed this as a team win as he lost
!!
Games played and Winners were:
Turf
Horse Racing Tim Havenith;
Dürch
die Wüste Lucy Newbury;
Ticket
To Ride Europe Chris Cook;
Adel
Verpflichtet ChrisCook;
Scotland
Yard the other players, as Chris lost.
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