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| WebOfPower | 5 | JeffF 4 Jerrie 2 RussD 0 RussW -2 Clay -4 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( Whindy Marty ) 1 ( Dan JP ) -1 |
| CastleOfMagic | 6 | DaveB 3 Darin 3 Matt 3 PJ -2 Steve -2 ( Jeffles Ben ) -5 |
| Guillotine | 5 | ChrisH 4 Daniel 2 Clayton 0 Jeffles -2 Kara -4 |
| Carcassonne | 3 | Kara 2 ChrisH 0 Clayton -2 |
| Euphrates | 3 | Clay 2 Bob 0 Jerrie -2 |
| StephensonsRocket | 4 | JeffF 3 RussW 1 JonathanC -1 RussD -3 |
| Vampire | 4 | ChrisH 3 Kara 1 Clayton -1 Mindy -3 |
| Attila | 5 | JP 4 Marty 2 Whindy 0 Allen -2 Dan -4 |
| FirstBlood | 6 | Darin 5 DaveB -1 Ben -1 Jeffles -1 Steve -1 William -1 |
| Letras | 4 | Jerrie 3 Clay 1 Bob -1 Matt -3 |
| Metro | 6 | Dan 5 RussW 3 Allen 1 ChrisH -1 RussD -3 Mindy -5 |
| Carcassonne | 5 | JP 4 Clayton 2 JonathanC 0 Kara -2 Whendy -4 |
| Carcassonne | 5 | Steve 4 Matt 2 RussW 0 Bob -2 Dan -4 |
| DungeonQuest | 4 | William 3 Ben -1 Darin -1 DaveB -1 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( JeffF PJ ) 1 ( Marty Whindy ) -1 |
| WebOfPower | 4 | Steve 3 Dan 0 JP 0 RussW -3 |
| DungeonQuest | 4 | DaveB 3 Darin -1 William -1 Allen -1 |
Shocking news as Hans Im Gluck has changed the farmer scoring rules. Since the game is obviously great and recently won the Game of the Year award, one must wonder why they felt it needed repairing. Apparently newbies sometimes found the existing rule hard to understand. The solution to that is to write the rule more clearly with better examples, I say. Don't mess with perfection. We played this week using the classic One True Rule.
It was especially good to play Metro again this week.
2 games of Web of Power this week! Woohoo! It's another of my faves. We made the not-uncommon mistake of forgetting to remove 5 cards in the 4 player game. That's surely why I lost. We did it wrong. It doesn't count. Yeah.
First Blood was some game that used a Tarot deck.
Our groupthink in Stephensons Rocket lately has been that stations rule and city tokens suck. But JeffF played just his second game of it and won; he took the most tokens. Fascinating, captain.
A reminder: please write and spell clearly when recording game results, and remember last initials for people with common names, thanks! Please be clear about Jonathans, Wendys, and Tims.
Meta Party Game ResultsSea Biscuit was the Meta Devil! Here is the game he mailed out:The "oh crap I'm meta devil" meta game for tonight is "Clairvoyance."Further discussion and rules followed in email at the last minute, but it was all ultimately somewhat moot because for whatever reason there was not much meta gaming that night. As best I can tell, only 2 people played: me and Sea Biscuit. I won (mostly for predicting Dan & I would both play Metro) (and of course for predicting I'd play Carcassonne). So I am the Meta Devil next week! |
Comet, Chandelier Musings
Curve, Come Clean
Hell Comes To Your House
Ozzy Osbourne, The Ozzman Cometh
Type O Negative, World Coming Down
The merrymakers have all come back from the 2001 US Go Congress!
Rank ratings: 1.0000 JeffF (3) 0.5833 JP (4) 0.5000 Daniel (1) 0.4286 ChrisH (4) 0.3750 Darin (4) 0.3333 Jerrie (3) 0.3333 Marty (3) 0.2500 DaveB (4) 0.2353 Steve (4) 0.1667 Matt (3) 0.0909 William (3) 0.0000 Whindy (3) -0.0526 RussW (5) -0.0769 Clayton (4) -0.1111 Clay (3) -0.1429 JonathanC (2) -0.1667 Allen (3) -0.1667 PJ (2) -0.2308 Kara (4) -0.2353 Dan (5) -0.3333 Bob (3) -0.5000 RussD (3) -0.5385 Ben (3) -0.5714 Jeffles (3) -1.0000 Mindy (2) -1.0000 Whendy (1) |
New Win ratings: 1.0000 JeffF (3) 0.5000 JP (4) 0.3750 Darin (4) 0.3571 ChrisH (4) 0.2500 DaveB (4) 0.1765 Steve (4) 0.1111 Jerrie (3) 0.0909 William (3) 0.0833 Matt (3) 0.0588 Dan (5) 0.0000 Clay (3) -0.0769 Kara (4) -0.1667 Marty (3) -0.1667 Whindy (3) -0.2500 Allen (3) -0.2500 Daniel (1) -0.2500 Mindy (2) -0.2500 RussD (3) -0.2500 Whendy (1) -0.2632 RussW (5) -0.2857 JonathanC (2) -0.3077 Clayton (4) -0.3333 Bob (3) -0.3333 PJ (2) -0.3571 Jeffles (3) -0.3846 Ben (3) |
My employer United Devices is hiring. Interested applicants may mention my name for our mutual benefit.
Go players may enjoy Ritchie Press with humorous go book covers. The cover for Get Strong at Gote is especially nice, I think. Non-go-players may simply shake their head in puzzlement.
Subvertise has fun subversive anti-ads in the adbusters tradition.
Beliefnet has a list of religiously themed boardgames, including the ever-popular Redemption: City of Bondage.
Life drawing fans might check out these scanned pages of the out-of-print Andrew Loomis book Figure Drawing For All It's Worth.
The Gentleman's Page is a practical guide for the 19th century American man.
These photos of breast reduction surgery are not for the easily grossed out. Especially don't go scrolling down to the later photos. No, really, don't. Don't blame me. Man, I warned you!
