"Shiny" - Fresno Gamers 8/6/08
Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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Why, yes, Firefly was a wonderful TV show... and the Fresno Gamers got to have a "shiny" night of old favorites & brand-new games.
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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I taught Stacy this nifty little placement game... and beat her. (I don't have the exact score, but it wasn't pretty.)
I need to teach more folks to play this - it has a Kupferkessel Co.-ish mechanism for placement that offers really painful decisions.
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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Stacy, Richard, Braeden & I all went into the dungeon... and none of us came out. Richard got killed by something (I don't remember what), Stacy fell down a bottomless pit, and Braeden was finished off by an orc, even though he had a huge haul of cash from the dragon. I survived the longest... but ran out of time before I could escape.
Yep, that's DQ.
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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I really like this dice/set-collecting game... but I absolutely STINK at it. I think I've only won one game of it so far. It's a great 2 player filler.
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Board Game: Pandemic
[Average Rating:7.63 Overall Rank:37]
Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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John, Stacy & Richard attempted to stave off plagues... with ZERO success. No cures... none, nadda, zippola.
Ouch.
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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This is a really cute smuggling game... which means LOTS of bluffing. It's one of those "read the crowd" games - you have to pay attention to who is getting hit and who is getting a free pass. I think if you played it enough, it would all come down to card draw with experienced players, but it's not the kind of game you're going to play 3 times in a row so that shouldn't be a problem.
Mark 279
Will 250
John 246
Mike 243
Richard 188
Stacy 173
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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We played two games of Aquaretto:
Richard 27 (3 coins)
Will 27 (1 coin)
Stacy 25
Mark 35
John 32
Will 28
I'm really enjoying this... we need to schedule a time to play a Zooloretto/Aquaretto combo game.
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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My rivergold fu was not strong enough to defeat Mike's leech fu. Amazingly, John was not the King of Whiskey this time... even with a moonshine still on the board.
Mike 17
Mark 12
John 8
Steve 6
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Board Game: Jamaica
[Average Rating:6.82 Overall Rank:474]
Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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John got lots of green arrows early... so he put the pedal to the metal and ROARED out to the front. He finished the race before any of the rest of us where able to round the 2nd corner. Still, Mike managed to fill his holds with Steve's gold and make it close.
GREAT game...
John 19
Mike 16
Mark 5
Steve 0
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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Uwe Rosenberg (Bohnanza, Mamma Mia, Agricola, etc.) knows how to do weird stuff with cards - Nottingham is no exception. I like how fast it plays and how the decisions remain interesting.
I was trying (in vain) to pull an "all special goals" win... the other guys were scoring sets & specials. But I was just ONE card away from another 25 points...!
Richard 84
Will 83
Mike 73
Mark 65
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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I taught Expedition to Will & John - and then schooled them in it. Thankfully, they seemed to enjoy it anyway... I hope it gets to come out a lot more, as it is one of my "top ten" games.
Mark 19
John 12 (15-3)
Will 6 (11-5)
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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Will finally managed to pull off a military victory with me in the game...
Will 23 (planets) + 0 (vps) + 15 (devs) = 38
Mark 12 (planets) + 6 (vps) + 14 (devs) = 32
John 19 (planets) + 3 (vps) + 5 (devs) = 27
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
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Oh, yeah... Steve & John played some card game.
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Am I a man or am I a muppet? If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet!
