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EGG (Eugene Games Gala) 2011 - My EGGxperience (Part 4)

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I forgot to mention yesterday that on Saturday I missed out on the game giveaways! Lorna contributes some games of her own for the drawing and FunAgain also provides some games. Early Saturday tickets are distributed and then throughout the day they were drawn from a cannister. If yours is drawn you get to go pick any game you like! My friend Bob got a copy of Onirim which he was very excited about. Three years ago I won a copy of Hoity Toity. Unfortunately I still haven't played it yet

Speaking of three years ago (2008) apparently that was the first year of EGG as a full 3-day convention! I had thought EGG had been running for longer than that, but apparently it had only been 1 or 2-day sessions up to then. SO, I can proudly say I was an inaugural member of EGG!

Sunday, Feb 6th - 8:00am
Despite getting home late and going to bed even later, I managed to pull myself out of bed at 8am. EGG started back up @ 9am and with it being the last day and having missed out on most of Saturday, I wanted to make sure I got started early.

One small issue this morning - I woke up with a headache, probably from not enough sleep and possibly not enough hydration. I took some Advil but never quite was able to shake it the whole day. I hate gaming with a headache, but nothing was going to stop me today.

Because I hadn't really played any of the games at the top of my 'to play' list I had resolved to only playing new games as much as possible.

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Merkator is not flashy and maybe even a little dull in comparison to some of it's Rosenburg kin, but I like it. Something comforting about pushing cubes around the board to earn VP....
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lorna wrote:
Merkator is not flashy and maybe even a little dull in comparison to some of it's Rosenburg kin, but I like it. Something comforting about pushing cubes around the board to earn VP....


Yes, I totally agree with that assessment, Lorna. Love those cubes! The boxes they go in are pretty cool, too!
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