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15 of us! 10 games. A very large number of cookies.
This was William's last RussCon for a while, since he's moving to New York City for real. Good luck! William and Evan should hook up for a game of Cosmic Encounter! |
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NewsMy personal page including these RussCon Reports are now being hosted at place.org instead of freeservers.com. I think this will provide better service, and if not we can kick PJ's ass!Several of us have seen past productions by the Austin Free Shakespeare Society. These folks do good shows, and they're free! This weekend they're doing one by a contemporary of Shakespeare. Wendy (who's off to Paris Saturday morning) & I plan to go see this Friday night. Because hey, free Shakespeare! Anyone else interested? What? Thomas Dekker's The Honest WhoreHere's a map showing CMA (southeast corner of Guadalupe and Dean Keeton aka 26th St). The only drawback is I'll miss Great Hall Games again for the third week in a row! Also, let me know if you are interested in doing a potluck Thanksgiving kind of thing. I have definite maybes from Clayton, Brady, and Jerrie at this point. |
| Vampire | 5 | Clayton 4 Stephanie 2 JonathanB 0 RussD -2 Carly -4 |
| Settlers | 4 | Jeffles 3 Carly 1 RussD -1 Stephanie -3 |
| FunnyMoney | 6 | JP 5 Dan 3 Marty 1 Matt -1 RussW -3 Daniel -5 |
| ScotlandYard | 2 | ( Mindy JonathanB William ) 1 ChrisH -1 |
| Frank'sZoo | 5 | Matt 4 JP 2 ChrisH 0 Dan -2 Mindy -4 |
| Samarkand | 4 | Dan 3 Matt 1 JP -1 William -3 |
| UnionPacific | 6 | RussW 5 Jeffles 3 Marty 1 Carly -1 RussD -3 JonathanB -5 |
| UndTschuess | 7 | Carly 6 JP 4 Jeffles 2 Marty 0 Matt -2 JonathanB -4 William -6 |
| Zero | 4 | JP 3 JonathanB 0 Matt 0 William -3 |
| Tayu | 2 | RussD 1 RussW -1 |
Funny Money is a German game Marty's had a while, but this is the first time we played it. It had quite nonstandard baroque rules which caused much confusion. I think the game may be good, but it dragged on so very long (and I made a crucial error at the end which probably cost me 1st place and ended me in 5th place) that I can't really say I enjoyed it. Still I like the idea of it, and I might try it again; as JP said, only with people who know the rules. It really took much longer to understand the rules than most RussCon games.
Union Pacific on the other hand is a game I understand well and actually win often. Woohoo!
Then RussD, who'd never played Tayu before in his life, totally kicked my butt, 16 to 0! Yes, a rare instance of total lockout on one side... I gambled and lost.
The 1931 Dracula with score by Philip Glass was quite enjoyable.
Rank ratings: 1.0000 Clayton (1 game played) 0.6190 JP (5) 0.5714 Jeffles (3) 0.3333 Dan (3) 0.1250 Marty (3) 0.1111 Carly (4) 0.0952 Matt (5) 0.0909 RussW (3) -0.1429 Stephanie (2) -0.2000 ChrisH (2) -0.3846 RussD (4) -0.4211 JonathanB (5) -0.6000 Mindy (2) -0.8462 William (4) -1.0000 Daniel (1) New Win ratings: 1.0000 Clayton (1) 0.2727 RussW (3) 0.2381 JP (5) 0.1667 Carly (4) 0.0833 Dan (3) 0.0714 Jeffles (3) 0.0000 Matt (5) 0.0000 Mindy (2) -0.1538 RussD (4) -0.1538 William (4) -0.1579 JonathanB (5) -0.1875 Marty (3) -0.2000 Daniel (1) -0.2857 Stephanie (2) -0.4000 ChrisH (2)Clayton pulled a Brady Maneuver, so JP is the Devil! Then Carly! Then me and Dan. Daniel pulled a Reverse Brady Maneuver.
GEE, GO SHRUB! GO LEAR! PAN HER LARD!?
I can't make out the URL on this picture I got by email:
I'm hoping when they finish recounting Florida, they will discover that Nader is elected president.
Russ
