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Sharon Khan
United Kingdom
Shefford
Bedfordshire
Games, games and more games!
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We were just 4. We started with a few fillers while waiting for James, first On the Dot, a favourite 5 minuter of Richard’s. Richard wasn’t on form today though, so Sami was my main competition – I just managed to squeak the win – winning tons of small point cards, while Sami was on almost as many points with less than half the cards as he kept winning the 3s!!! Next we played Tension, a recent acquisition that we hadn’t played yet – it’s quite a fun speed game about getting your pieces in to the holes before your opponents. Bizarrely, given that it was a speed game, I was absolutely terrible at it, and came last by miles!!! We then played one hand of Coloretto and James arrived. By then we only had half an hour before Sami had to leave to pick Jennifer up from a birthday party, so it was another filler – this time 7 Wonders. James went science and I had the “auto-win” Mausoleum B that wasn’t an auto-win at all in this game, and we both did terribly, while the other two were piling out stuff that was worth lots of points. Richard won by just a couple of points.
Galaxy Trucker was next on the table, as Richard is really enjoying this right now, 3 player and with the expansion tiles and boards this time, but none of the rest of the expansion. The first round I did really well as usual, although we had an odd tile selection, having removed nearly all the crew quarters and leaving almost all the expansion tiles in. The second round we had a fairly boring set of cards, and no-one really did much. The third round was the most interesting, but not as much carnage as last time!
Sami was back just as we finished, so as I won I chose the next game, and went for Shark, a light family stock market game that I’ve been trying to get to the table for a few weeks now, as we haven’t played it for a couple of years. James had a disaster with dice-rolling, which meant he was never able to get into the game, while I went from strength to strength. Sami was doing second best, with some nice yellow shares, until yellow got swallowed and he hadn’t enough cash to pay, so had to sell shares, which put Richard, with his multi-colour share collection, second overall.
That game had been fairly short, so we had plenty of time for one more heavy game afterwards, and Richard and James both voted for Power Grid, as Richard missed out on it last week! We pulled out the Korea map this time. It was very tight at the end, with the lack of coal and oil in South Korea causing everyone headaches, especially Richard with his uranium which could only be bought in South Korea. Sami bought an early garbage plant that everyone thought was bad, but turned out to be much better than expected later on – far too many resource-intensive coal and oil power plants appeared after that, and the last couple of rounds everyone was trying desperately to get plants that they could power, and paying insane costs to power their cities!
We finished with a quick Jungle Speed.
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