Seattle Cosmic Game Night, Saturday, 27 December 2003

Silent Night, Holy Night... Ok, not silent, but quiet!

Who was there? Timothy Higgins, Alex Rockwell, Steve Dupree, Natalie Dupree, Ron Hale-Evans, Marty Hale-Evans, Mark Haggerty, John Braley, and Meredith Hale.

It was a small game night, due to the holiday we're guessing, but those in attendance had a fantastic time. And I can't say it was too quiet because the Poker being played behind us kept erupting in cries of joy or pain. I got there late, so I'm going by score sheets. I also have to say that finding this newsletter template makes life easier! I did the last one from scratch trying to figure out the coding! Everyone needs to chip in with comments please...

-- Meredith_Hale?

Dreidel

Game: Dreidel
Players: Nat, Steve, Marty, Ron
Location: Dining Room
Time: 5:15
Winner: Marty
Prize:

Even though I wasn't here, it made me sing the Dreidel song from South Park all night. In fact, I'm doing it again.

-- Meredith_Hale?

Scores

What happened during this game?

Comments from the players?

--Meredith_Hale?

The Last Cosmic Encounter Game of the Year!

Game: Cosmic Encounter
Players: Ron, Alex, Marty, Steve D., Nat, Tim H.
Location: Dining Room
Time: 5:35 - 7:45
Winner: Tim H.
Prize: ?

Scores

Comments from the players?

I drew the Martyr flare - would have been good to play Parasite-Martyr; couldn't find Martyr power, so I redrew Aura. Bleah. Guess it's OK; probably wouldn't have won with earlier combo anyway.

Alex misunderstands and blows all of his cards on "moderation."

For Tim's potential 5th base: Tim (with Steve) plays War on moderated turn and debate follows; does 'War' equal infinity score (I win)? Or does 'War' nullify the moderated aspect like a compromise?

Consensus is that Tim wins.

Meredith typed this from the notes, and I assume Ron will go in and change whatever he'd like to change. :)

--Ron_Hale-Evans?

What's funny was that Nat drew the Tiebreaker power (or some such): Any time there is a rules dispute, you get to decide what happens. She threw it away assuming it would be useless. She could have used it to prevent Tim from winning. I thought that I was going along for a free ride for the win when I allied with Tim, but he suspicously accepted my alliance. Naturally he had the cone aimed squarely at a planet on which I already had a base. Luckily for my conscience, my alliance didn't have any affect on the outcome of the challenge, since his War card made numbers irrelevant.

--Steve_Dupree?

Abenteuer Menscheit

Game: Abenteuer Menscheit
Players: Tim, Marty, Steve, Meredith
Location: Dining Room Table
Time: 8:00 - 9:40 p.m.
Winner: Tim
Prize: ?

Scores

So we all need more stone. And people keep getting fur. Steve keeps saying "I need more fur like I need a hole in the head!" And I kept rolling a 9, which was the only number that greatly benefitted everyone else, but not me at all. Sad.

My favorite quote from the game is when Tim says to Steve "Hey, stop beating up on me!" and Steve says "I will when you stop winning." Marty jumps in and says "Uh, Steve? You're winning." and he replies "Well, then I will when you stop being second!"

--Meredith_Hale?

I really wasn't winning. In terms of points, maybe, but Tim was only one event tile behind me for Most Event Tiles and we both knew it.

Once, I spent an entire game of Settlers (original vanilla flavor) targeting one poor soul. It was him, two newbies, and me, so I targeted him from the beginning as the biggest threat. I did apologize though. : )

--Steve_Dupree?

Ricochet Robots

Game: Ricochet Robots
Players: Nat, Alex
Location: Coffee Table
Time: 8:00
Winner: ?
Prize: ?

Scores

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Comments from the players?

--Meredith_Hale?

Liar's Dice

Game: Liar's Dice
Players: Alex, Nat, Steve
Location: Coffee Table
Time: 10:00 ?
Winner: ?
Prize: ?

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Comments from the players?

--Meredith_Hale?

La Citta

Game: La Citta
Players: Mark, Tim, Marty, John, Meredith
Location: Dining Room
Time: 9:50
Winner: Meredith
Prize: Phil Foglio Brawl Cards

Scores

This was a very close game and John had not played before and Mark only once a while ago. I just have to mention that after 3 hours of this game, in the last round I mis-calculated people and couldn't feed two. That means I lost those two and then had a 5-person penalty the last round, and I still won! I rule! :) No, really, I was very excited to win against such awesome players.

--Meredith_Hale?

Poker

Game: Poker
Players: Nat, Steve, Alex
Location: Coffee Table
Time: 11:40 or so
Winner: ?
Prize: ?

Scores

We played a total of 7 no-limit poker tournaments over the course of 3 hours. A couple memorable hands:

I had QQ and Alex had Jx (where x is some card that is not relevant to the hand). The flop was Jxx. I bet heavy into alex and he called, thinking I was bluffing perhaps. My beautiful queen came on the turn. The river was another Jack, and both of us shoved our chips in the pot. My queens full of jacks beat his 3 jacks.

One tournament consisted of one hand. I had 10 10, Alex had QK suited (clubs IIRC) and Nat had Ax unsuited. We all pushed all our chips in, 20 chip raises at a time. An ace and a bunch of rags fell, giving Nat the win of the hand and the whole tournament.

On the final, tiebreaking tournament, Alex got all of Nat's chips and some of mine pretty quickly. I was down to enough chips to cover the blind plus two to spare. I threw those in the pot after their brothers on a hail mary hand and somehow managed to win the pot. On the next hand I got something decent and pushed all in, and Alex called with a decent hand of his own. My hand happened to turn into the winning one and I was suddenly the chip leader. I managed to use my chip lead to wear Alex down and eventually win my third tournament that evening.

--Steve_Dupree?

Dreidel Rehash

Game: Dreidel once again
Players: ?
Location: ?
Time: ?
Winner: ?
Prize: ?

Scores

We played one quick game of Dreidel just to show Mark what it was all about. The game is, I think, better with candy - at least you can snack while you watch the random event generator spin!

--Steve_Dupree?

Can't Stop #1

Game: CantStop?
Players: Steve, Nat Alex
Location: Coffee Table
Time: ?
Winner: Steve
Prize: Brawl deck

Scores

Alex made some quick progress, Nat made some decent but spread out progress, and Steve got high in a very few columns very quick and won the game.

--Steve_Dupree?

Can't Stop #2

Game: CantStop?
Players: Steve, Nat Alex, Marty
Location: Coffee Table
Time: ?
Winner: Marty
Prize: ?

Scores

Alex made quick progress again, securing two columns. Soon all the columns from 6-10 were completed, and people were regularly falling on their second roll. Alex was one space away from two different columns and chose to save his progress, given the above fact, and seeing that noone else was close and any half decent roll on his next turn would win. Luckily for Marty, she rolled three consecutive pairs of snake eyes to claim the 2 column as her third and win the game.

--Steve_Dupree?

NEXT MEETING

Saturday, 3 January 2004 (first GN of the new year), 5:00 PM at the house of Dave and Kathy in Tukwila. Come play for fun and FABULOUS PRIZES from the PrizeBag!

Remember, Seattle Cosmic Game Night occurs every weekend, in one of three locations: Kent, Mill Creek, or Tukwila. Email Ron Hale-Evans for a full schedule and directions. If you come, please bring a snack or drink to share (cookies, chips, soda, juice, etc.)

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