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| Carcassonne | 5 | RussW 4 Clay 1 Jeffles 1 Dan -2 Clayton -4 |
| WebOfPower | 5 | RussD 4 JonathanC 2 RussW 0 Dan -2 Clay -4 |
| Traumfabrik | 5 | Jeffles 4 JP 2 Clayton 0 Whindy -2 Dan -4 |
| Carcassonne | 3 | Brady 2 Matt 0 Steve -2 |
| Acquire | 5 | RussD 4 RussW 2 JonathanC 0 Dan -2 Whendy -4 |
| Bluff | 4 | JonathanC 3 Whendy 1 RussD -1 RussW -3 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( JimG DaveB ) 1 ( William Ben ) -1 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( Steve Matt ) 1 ( William Ben ) -1 |
| Can'tStop | 4 | Steve 3 Jeffles 0 Brady 0 Matt -3 |
| Vampire | 3 | Steve 2 RussW 0 JonathanC -2 |
| Euphrates | 4 | Marty 3 JP 1 Whindy -1 Daniel -3 |
| ZirkusFlohcati | 5 | JP 4 Matt 2 Marty 0 Whindy -2 Daniel -4 |
| BigCity | 3 | Daniel 2 JimG 0 DaveB -2 |
| Carcassonne | 3 | RussW 2 JonathanC 0 Steve -2 |
Holy smokes, I won 2 games of Carcassonne again again this week! Woo hoo! We also tried out the new version with river tiles... several games were played with it, and the consensus seemed to be that they didn't add much to the game, plus the rules for them were vague and squeezed into a small paragraph in a blank space on the original rules, so it was unclear what sorts of river bends were illegal (just back in the opposite direction of the first tile? Or a U-turn anywhere?) They seemed to introduce a bit too much luck at the start as well, since you have at most 2 options on how to place a river tile instead of the generally many options with normal tiles.
A reminder: please write and spell clearly when recording game results, make the scores and ranks clear, and remember last initials for people with common names, thanks! This week there was a game recorded with JimG, Whendy , and DaveB but no title! Lost to the mists of time.
Meta Party GameBrady was the Meta Devil. But sadly he did not design a Meta Game, so I came up with a variation of last week's Meta Game:The BRADY Meta GameLots of 2 meta point games (Carcassonne, Web of Power, Acquire, Vampire, Euphrat & Tigris, Zirkus Flohcati, Big City), and also Bluff, Can't Stop (1 meta point) and Traumfabrik (3 meta points). Here's my reckoning: RussW 2+2+2+1+2+2 = 11 JonathanC 2+2+1+2+2 = 9 Dan 2+2+3+2 = 9 JP 3+2+2 = 7 Steve 2+1+2+2 = 7 Whindy 3+2+2 = 7 RussD 2+2+1 = 6 Jeffles 2+3+1 = 6 Daniel 2+2+2 = 6 Matt 2+1+2 = 5 Clayton 2+3 = 5 Marty 2+2 = 4 Clay 2+2 = 4 Brady 2+1 = 3 Whendy 2+1 = 3 JimG 2 = 2 DaveB 2 = 2 Ben 0 William 0So I am the Meta Devil and will design next week's Meta Party Game. I know I won't let me down like Brady *sniff*... |
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead (self-titled)
The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Cranberries, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
Hole, My Body, The Hand Grenade
Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
These are all meta titles which were even harder to come up with than last week's meta titles!
Rank ratings: 0.6364 RussD (3 games played) 0.6364 JP (3) 0.4545 Jeffles (3) 0.4286 Marty (2) 0.4000 Brady (2) 0.3333 JimG (2) 0.2632 RussW (6) 0.2000 Steve (5) 0.2000 JonathanC (5) 0.0000 Matt (4) -0.3333 DaveB (2) -0.3750 Clay (2) -0.4286 Whendy (2) -0.4545 Whindy (3) -0.5000 Clayton (2) -0.5556 Daniel (3) -0.6250 Dan (4) -1.0000 Ben (2) -1.0000 William (2) |
New Win ratings: 0.6364 RussD (3) 0.4000 Steve (5) 0.2857 Marty (2) 0.2000 Brady (2) 0.1818 JP (3) 0.1818 Jeffles (3) 0.1053 RussW (6) 0.0000 JimG (2) 0.0000 DaveB (2) 0.0000 Daniel (3) -0.0667 JonathanC (5) -0.2000 Matt (4) -0.2500 Clay (2) -0.2500 Clayton (2) -0.2500 Dan (4) -0.2727 Whindy (3) -0.2857 Whendy (2) -1.0000 Ben (2) -1.0000 William (2) |
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