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14 of us played 10 games!
If you're into stencil art (as I am lately), check out the art currently on display in the Omelettry (4811 Burnet) - lots of cool stencil posters. While lunching with RussCon folks Matt and Randy there, I randomly also saw Whindy, Rob, and Dudley (and maybe others I didn't notice in the confusion?), woot!
EinfachGenial | 2 | ( Ben RussW ) 1 ( Clayton MarkH ) -1 |
IronChef | 4 | BD 3 Fina 1 JeffS -1 JP -3 |
Cartagena | 4 | MarkH 3 Marty 0 Clayton 0 Whendy -3 |
RicochetRobot | 3 | Ben 2 RussW 0 KevinY -2 |
Crokinole | 2 | ( JeffS KevinY ) 1 ( JP BD ) -1 |
Tichu | 2 | ( MarkH Fina ) 1 ( Whendy Ben ) -1 |
Carcassonne | 4 | Clayton 3 William 1 RussW -2 Marty -2 |
WebOfPower | 3 | RussW 2 MarkY 0 Marty -2 |
SaintPetersburg | 4 | RussW 3 MarkY 1 Matt -1 Clayton -3 |
PuertoRico | 3 | JP 2 KevinY 0 JeffS -2 |
It was my first time to try the team version of Einfach Genial. I enjoyed it fine, but I tend to prefer nonteam games more, I think. Either way, Einfach Genial is definitely very popular lately and I recommend trying it if you haven't already.
JeffS brought the Iron Chef game, which sounded like it had goofy funny flavor text if nothing else.
A good close game of Ricochet Robot as Ben and I kept pulling ahead of the other, and he pipped me in the end by a point!
Good to play the old classic Web Of Power again. I'd forgotten how different it feels with just 3 players. I was the only one to place a significant number of cylinders, so I was behind on the score from houses, but luckily my cylinders put me over the top in the end.
Saint Petersburg is a cool new game with some neat mechanics that's got some good buzz online. (Interesting trivia: allegedly the designer "Michael Tummelhofer" appears to be a pseudonym representing two other prominent industry personalites.) I played it once a few days ago with Randy and Matt, and was happy to play again at RussCon. Even Marty, who says he doesn't like it, apparently couldn't resist playing it 5 times at the Gathering... but we couldn't convince him to join us for this game... :)
The Frogs, It's Only Right And Natural
Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant
The Pogues, Essential
Triology, plays Ennio Morricone
Roger Waters, Radio K.A.O.S.
Meta band names, according to a recent Meta Game I missed while on vacation.
Iraqi soccer players angered by Bush campaign ads
Church Denies 8-Year-Old's Non-Wheat Communion: if you have a wheat allergy, tough luck! Burn in hell, non-wheat-eater!
Best Men is an interesting touching 4-part Boston Globe series about a family and their history: 1 2 3 4
eBay song in a cheesy 70s style
sankta peterburgo devas esti la nova varma ludo
russ