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| Carcassonne | 3 | BobK 2 Clayton 0 JimG -2 |
| TajMahal | 5 | RussW 4 Carly 2 BobR 0 Marty -2 Dan -4 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( Clay Fred ) 1 ( Whendy PJ ) -1 |
| Metro | 6 | Steve 5 Carly 3 RussW 1 Fina -1 Dan -3 Marty -5 |
| Vampire | 3 | Clayton 2 Whendy 0 RussD -2 |
| QuoVadis | 5 | William 4 RussW 2 Clayton 0 Steve -2 PJ -4 |
| PrincesOfFlorence | 5 | Daniel 4 BobR 2 JimG 0 DaveB -2 BobK -4 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( Marty Carly ) 1 ( Dan Fina ) -1 |
| Carcassonne | 3 | Steve 2 PJ 0 RussW -2 |
| TallyHo | 2 | Marty 1 Dan -1 |
| BigCity | 4 | Daniel 3 BobK 1 BobR -1 JimG -3 |
| BigCheese | 3 | Steve 2 RussW 0 PJ -2 |
| Settlers | 4 | Carly 3 Fina 1 Ben -1 William -3 |
| 6Nimmt | 5 | BobK 4 Dan 2 BobR 0 Daniel -2 PJ -4 |
| LaCitta | 3 | JP 2 RussD 0 Fred -2 |
I hadn't played Taj Mahal in a long time, probably 6 months or more. In a 5 player game, I got 6 of the 12 elephants which gave me a handy win. Perhaps I should play this game more often...
I hadn't played Quo Vadis in a while either. I like it a lot. Nice simple elegant mechanics, and a central mechanism of dealmaking and negotiations which don't actually bog down normally.
Steve demolished me & PJ at Carcassonne; nonetheless, I have still not tired of playing Carcassonne and putting this box-cover art in the RussCon Report.
The Big Cheese is surely one of the greatest Cheapass Games, especially with our deterministic pure strategy variant (where the card's number is the points you get, instead of the number of sides of the die you roll to determine your points). It had been a long time since I'd played it as well.
This was the first time La Citta was played at RussCon. It's a very complex busy looking game, but I hear it's good and not really that complex once you grok the varying little subsystems, vaguely analogous to Princes of Florence.
Meta Party Game ResultsDan was the Meta Devil. Here is the Meta Party Game he emailed out:ConnoisseurIt seems most people didn't have the stomach to play this game; only Carly, Clay, Fina, DaveB, Whendy, and I had the guts. The products turned out to all be baby food; the answers were:
Too bad more people didn't take the challenge because it was quite interesting and fun. I was surprised how hard it was to be sure what I was seeing and smelling, given the ordinary nature of the foods. I mean, it's not like we were trying to identify some subtle fricassee of Icelandic reindeer milk with a piquant hint of blackened oleander root or something... The distribution of scores was 2, 4, 6, 7, 7, 8. Fina was the sole person to get all 8 correct, so she is the Meta Party Devil and shall design next week's Meta Party game! |
Cake, Fashion Nugget
Camper Van Beethoven, Key Lime Pie
Curve, Pubic Fruit
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, UFO Tofu
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, One Hot Minute
Another meta theme, of course! Had I known what Dan had in store, I might have chosen a more infantile theme, though.
Rank ratings: 1.0000 Clay (1 game played) 1.0000 JP (1) 0.6923 Carly (4) 0.5385 Steve (4) 0.4545 Daniel (3) 0.2941 RussW (5) 0.2500 Clayton (3) 0.2308 BobK (4) 0.1429 William (2) 0.0667 BobR (4) -0.1111 Fina (3) -0.3333 Ben (1) -0.3333 Fred (2) -0.3333 Whendy (2) -0.4545 Marty (4) -0.4667 Dan (5) -0.5000 DaveB (1) -0.5000 RussD (2) -0.5556 JimG (3) -0.8462 PJ (5) |
New Win ratings: 1.0000 Clay (1) 1.0000 JP (1) 0.6154 Steve (4) 0.5455 Daniel (3) 0.4286 William (2) 0.3077 BobK (4) 0.1538 Carly (4) 0.0000 Clayton (3) 0.0000 Fred (2) 0.0000 Marty (4) 0.0000 RussW (5) -0.2500 DaveB (1) -0.2667 BobR (4) -0.3333 Ben (1) -0.3333 Dan (5) -0.3333 Fina (3) -0.3333 JimG (3) -0.3846 PJ (5) -0.5000 RussD (2) -0.6667 Whendy (2) |
Dan has prepared an excellent summary of The Lost Tiles of Carcassonne. While you're at it, check out his Gaming Challenge 2001 page, where your humble narrator slips ever farther behind. Damn this lack of free time!
Classic computer game designer Chris Crawford's take on the WTC event.
Lego version of Monty Python's Holy Grail.
Cool weird biological art from the 1800s by Rudolph Leuckart.
achtung baby
