Seattle Cosmic Game Night, Saturday, 24 April 2004

Wherein Many Regulars Are Absent, and Nobody's Taking Notes

Seattle Cosmic Game Night met again on 24 April at the house of David_Adams? and Kathy_Kizer? in Tukwila. Attendees included David_Adams?, Nat_Dupree?, Steve_Dupree?, Ryan_Eyer? and Emily_Miller?, Mark_Haggerty? with an Ecuadorian friend, Dave_Howell?, Ava_Jarvis?, Jay_Lorch?, Alex_Rockwell?, AlphaTim Schutz, and Ben_Sklar?.

Bohnaparte

Game: Bohnaparte? (Bohnanza Variant)
Location: Dining Room
Time: 6ish
Winner: Steve
Prize: ?

Scores

Bohnaparte is a Bohnanza variant wherein the standard bean planting and the coins you earn from it aren't victory points directly; instead they are used to fuel your bitter turf war in the center of the table. One interesting aspect of the expansion is that the "lowest" value beans (Blue Beans - 20s) suddenly become very valuable, because they are your ammunition in the battles. In the end, however, I (and Nat agreed with me) wasn't particularly impressed. It seemed to me that I won partially because I had the last turn. Nat and Kisa were probably out of it, but if there had been one or two less beans on the deck and the game had ended on Kisa's turn, Dave would have won. There is also the standard problem in a territory game, i.e. the rich get richer; there is no counterbalancing method in this game.

--Steve_Dupree?

Starship Catan

Game: Starship_Catan?
Players: Alex_Rockwell?, Ben_Sklar?
Location: Living Room
Time: 6-ish

Runaway Train

Game: RunAway_Train?
Players: AlphaTim Schutz, Mark_Haggerty?, Ecuadorian friend, Ryan_Eyer? and Emily_Miller?,
Location: Living Room
Time: 7ish
Winner: AlphaTim Schutz
Prize: Much Joy

Scores

This is my prototype game RunAway? Train. I wanted to give it one more play-test and test out the minor changes I have made before I shipped it down to this year\x92s KublaCon? Game Contest. We played the 3 game variant where you play 3 games and then at the end of the third game you add the score from you highest scoring game to your lowest scoring game and leave out the score from your middle scoring game. This is the first time playing that variant and it worked quite well. The neat thing about the three game variant is that you really don\x92t know who the winner will be until the third game is finished or at least close to the end of that game. I was able to win by scoring a real good score in the last game of 49 points. All three games where played in about 30 minutes. Emily and Ryan have played this game two other times before and commented that they like this version the best. So do I.

-- AlphaTim Schutz

Puerto Rico

Game: Puerto_Rico?
Players: Alex_Rockwell?, Ben_Sklar?

Tales of the Arabian Nights

Game: Tales_of_the_Arabian_Nights?
Players: Kisa_Griffin?, Dave_Howell?, Ava_Jarvis?, AlphaTim Schutz
Location: Living Room
Time: 8:50 pm
Winner: AlphaTim Schutz
Prize: More Joy

It seems like a good example of a kind of game I'm not really into, where the interesting-ness of the game comes from having lots and lots of rules. We played the "simplified" version, but I was unable to feel out what the consequences of my actions would be, so it was hard to know what to do when.

Otheer players had more fun than I, I think.

--Dave_Howell?

Fluxx

Game: Fluxx
Players: Ben_Sklar?, Mark_Haggerty?, Mark's friend, ???, David_Adams?
Location: Dining Room
Time: 8:50 pm

Ticket To Ride

Game: Ticket_to_Ride?
Players: Steve_Dupree?, Alex_Rockwell?, Emily_Miller?, Ryan_Eyer?
Location: Kitchen
Time: 8:50 pm

Once again, getting lots of tickets and making them all was the winning strategy. Also, not having enough trains to connect your cities is bad.

--Steve_Dupree?

Chess

Game: Chess
Players: Mark_Haggerty?, Alex_Rockwell?
Location: Living Room
Time: 9:30 pm
Winner: ?
Prize: ?

Lunar Rails

Game: Lunar_Rails?
Location: Dining Room
Time: 9:30 pm - 12:30 am or so
Winner: Dave Adams

Scores

Dave won. The end of the game was delayed by some catastrophic events. --Steve_Dupree?

Amun-Re

Game: Amun-Re?
Players: Jay_Lorch?, Nat_Dupree?, Emily_Miller?, Ryan_Eyer?
Location: Kitchen
Time: 9:30 pm

Durnifino

Game: Durnifino?
Players: Jay_Lorch?, Nat_Dupree?, Emily_Miller?
Location: Kitchen
Time: 10:45 pm

Evo

Game: Evo?
Players: Dave_Howell?, {"Eric Yarnell"], and two others
Location: Living Room
Time: midnight

Scores

A typical game of Evo except that the temperature stayed cool for a freakishly long part of the game.

--Dave_Howell?

Afterword

Remember, Seattle Cosmic Game Night occurs every weekend, in one of a number of Seattle-area locations. 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.)

Supporting Seattle Cosmic and Games to the Rescue

GamesToTheRescue is a philanthropic project of the Center for Ludic Synergy and Seattle Cosmic Game Night. The aim of the project is to provide game equipment and a book of game rules to hospitals, for use by patients and visitors. You can support GamesToTheRescue by buying games via our Funagain affiliate program, buying Seattle Cosmic Gear, and in a number of other ways. See the GamesToTheRescue page for more details.

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