CHIPPENHAM BOARDGAMES CLUB - 03/03/2010

1.     Whilst we waited for the late arrival of the Piesse Brothers 4 of us played the short game of “Hey, That’s My Fish”. A simple game about collecting fish from a large ice flow. However as players collect fish they form holes in the ice which can leave other players isolated ( or should that be “ice-olated” . Roger ran away with the game in the end by having a “whole shoal” to himself.

2.     With the arrival of Chris and Alistair 7 of us played “Incan Gold”, a game of collecting treasures. It involved brinkmanship deciding when to bale out of the mines due to impending disasters. Chris didn’t and perished, Alistair was more prudent and narrowly beat Richard.

3.     When Robert Piesse arrived we split into 3 groups, one of 5 to play “Caylus”, and the other 3 played a variety of small games. Caylus is a resource management game about building various parts of a castle and is quite involved…a proper gamers game .It took over 2 hours and Chris was always in a leading position and held it until the end, despite a late surge by Alistair and Mike to close the gap. Richard claimed he might have won if there had been one more round…hmmm, maybe next time ??

4.     On the other table Geoff introduced Maria to the game of “Oregon”, about building farms, ports and churches in the state of that name. He duly won but only narrowly from Roger.

5.     Geoff then explained the card game “King Lui”, whereby players take food items from the proliferation on display but they must be careful not to eat more of an item than the King does, as that would be rude, wouldn’t it ? If they do hey won’t score for that item so the game is all about keeping a balanced diet. Geoff’s prior knowledge enabled him to win.

6.     The small group then played a quick card game “Coloretto”, and interesting set-collecting game which is popular within the hobby. Maria was hustled by the other two and Geoff gained a narrow win over Roger.

7.     The larger group played a second game of “Incan Gold” to finish up the evening. Mike blew his chances when failing to get out of the mine in time and lost a lot of treasure. Chris gained a win by just one point in a tense finish.

8.     On the other table Geoff introduced another card game called “Archaeology”, a game about achieving expedition goals. In another tight finish Geoff beat Roger by one point to claim a fourth victory of the evening !!   

Games played and Winners were:

Hey That’s My Fish ! Roger Skull;

Incan Gold game 1 Alistair Gittings;

Oregon Geoff Williams;

Kings Breakfast Geoff Williams;

Caylus Chris Cook;

Coloretto Geoff Williams;

Archeology Geoff Williams;

Incan Gold game 2 Chris Cook.

Well done Geoff on a 4-timer !!