November 17 1999 RussCon Report

19 people. No Leonid meteors spotted, though we looked.

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Game Results:

Bluff 5 RussW 4 Jay 2 WendyWhe 0 William -3 Daniel -3
WizWar 6 Jay 5 William 3 Bob 1 Fred -1 Harry -4 JeffD -4
LostCities 2 William 1 Allen -1
UnionPacific 6 Daniel 5 RussW 3 Marty 1 WendyWhe -1 Clayton -3 Matt -5
LastChance 4 William 3 Steve 1 JP -1 Allen -3
Ra 4 Marty 3 Harry 1 Daniel -1 Matt -3
Euphrates 4 Bob 3 Jay 1 Fred -1 JeffD -3
HookOrCrook 5 William 4 Allen 2 JP 0 JeffF -2 Steve -4
Fluxx 3 Tim 2 TomW -1 JonathanB -1
Tayu 2 RussW 1 WendyWhe -1
Bluff 6 William 5 JonathanB 3 RussW 1 Tim -1 Steve -3 Allen -5
Siesta 4 JP 3 Bob 1 JeffF -2 Daniel -2
ZirkusFlohcati 3 JP 2 William 0 Bob -2
Ra 3 Harry 2 Matt 0 Marty -2
Guillotine 2 Tim 1 TomW -1
AufHellerUndPfennig 4 Harry 3 Marty 1 Allen -1 Matt -3
Dorada 4 Steve 3 JonathanB 1 RussW -1 JeffF -3
GrandNationalDerby 5 RussW 4 JonathanB 2 Marty -2 Steve -2 Allen -2
HoneyBears 4 Bob 3 JP 1 William -1 Matt -3
It'sMine 4 William 3 Matt -1 JP -1 Bob -1
It'sMine 4 Bob 3 Matt 1 William -2 JP -2
ZirkusFlohcati 3 William 2 JP 0 Matt -2
ZirkusFlohcati 3 Matt 2 William 0 JP -2
Samurai 3 RussW 2 JonathanB -1 Allen -1
Bohnanza 3 JP 2 Matt 0 William -2

I must brag about that first Bluff game. It came down to me & Jay. I only had 2 dice left, while Jay had all 5 of his dice still. My glorious victory brought the cheering crowd to its feet! (Well ok, so they were standing up anyway.)

It had been a few weeks since I'd played Union Pacific, and I missed it. It's such a neat cool game.

It had been many months since I'd played Samurai. It was played a lot last year, but not much lately. I didn't really miss it, but I should have. It's a good one, and the pieces are cool! Lots of us have played Euphrat & Tigris, and Durch die Wueste; if you like those, try Samurai, sometimes considered the 3rd in Knizia's trilogy of placement games with scoring of several different types of victory points.

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Evening's Soundtrack:

Evita, Premier American Recording
Jesus Christ Superstar (London cast)
The Rocky Horror Show, Original London Cast

English musicals I've seen performed live. Zach Scott's current run of Rocky Horror ends soon and was quite fun. Jesus Christ Superstar is running at the Paramount, and I plan to see it (let me know if you care to join me).

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Rank ratings:
 0.6667 Jay (3)
 0.5833 RussW (7)
 0.3636 Bob (7)
 0.3333 William (13)
 0.2500 JonathanB (5)
 0.2500 Tim (3)
 0.1538 Harry (4)
 0.0741 JP (10)
 0.0588 Marty (5)
-0.0667 Daniel (4)
-0.2000 WendyWhe (3)
-0.2500 Fred (2)
-0.2632 Steve (5)
-0.5000 Allen (7)
-0.5000 Matt (10)
-0.6000 Clayton (1)
-0.6667 TomW (2)
-0.7000 JeffF (3)
-0.8750 JeffD (2)

New Win ratings:
 0.3333 RussW (7)
 0.2821 William (13)
 0.2500 Jay (3)
 0.2500 Tim (3)
 0.2308 Harry (4)
 0.2273 Bob (7)
 0.1333 Daniel (4)
 0.0000 JP (10)
-0.0526 Steve (5)
-0.0588 Marty (5)
-0.2000 Clayton (1)
-0.2500 Fred (2)
-0.2500 JeffD (2)
-0.2500 Matt (10)
-0.3000 JeffF (3)
-0.3000 WendyWhe (3)
-0.3125 JonathanB (5)
-0.3182 Allen (7)
-0.6667 TomW (2)

Jay & I are the Devil! I wonder who will show up at my house sooner to claim the table, heh heh.

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Even Still Yet More Links:

Mind Sport Olympiad site:
http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/front.html

A Java game page:
http://www.gamegate.com/

Lots of nifty links to artificial life pages:
http://surf.de.uu.net/zooland/

It's fun--and educational!! Can YOU be a vector?
http://earwig.net/

If you want to take a course on quantum computing, here are several!
http://www.ams.org/meetings/shcourse.html

Fortean article about people eating mummy powder for supposed health benefits:
http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/124/mummy.html

Sea Biscuit, Brendan, JP, RussD, and I want more players for Fantasy War! Did I mention that Sea Biscuit is a traitorous lying cheese weasel who'd backstab and invade his ally at the drop of a hat, dragging us into a mutually destructive war while permitting the evil undead hordes of Ulvir to gleefully run amok? Good thing he's not like that in real life!
http://www.station.sony.com/fantasywar

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"You met me at a very strange time in my life."

Russ