Name 2 RussCon games that seem to be very popular lately.
22 Puerto Rico
15 Tichu
10 Drakon
9 Carcassonne
2 Titicaca
Roadkill
Star Wars Epic Duels

Name 2 popular RussCon games that you personally don't like much.
7 Carcassonne
6 Tichu
4 Puerto Rico
4 Settlers
3 Drakon
3 Cosmic Encounter
2 6Nimmt
2 Princes of Florence
2 Bluff
18xx
52pickup
Any of the railroad-crayon games.
Can't Stop
Crappy Avalon Hill ones Daniel brings
Durch die Wueste
El Grande
Euphrat & Tigris
Evo
Exxtra
Guillotine
Modern Art
None
Pig Pile
Ra
Samarkand
Titicaca
Vampire
Web of Power


Name 2 of the most frequently played RussCon games of all time.
20 Carcassonne
14 Settlers
10 Bluff
10 Tichu
Bohnanza
Brawl
Don't Stop [sic]
Mississippi Queen [or river queen, sic]

Name 2 RussCon games that Russ likes a lot.
21 Carcassonne
7 Drakon
5 Stephensons Rocket
3 Titicaca
2 Puerto Rico
2 RoboRally
2 Trainsport Austria
2 Vampire
2 Web of Power
Acquire
Battle Cry
Bluff
Empire Builder [!?]
Go
Mississippi Queen [river queen; tim g]
Princes of Florence
Settlers
Tichu [uh-huh, sure...]
Trainsport (insert country here)
Union Pacific
one of those railroad-crayon games


Name 2 common physical components used in RussCon games.
13 Cards
14 Dice
7 Board
4 Wooden pieces
3 Tiles
3 board tokens, tokens
2 hexagons
Purple pieces
blocks
wood blocks
pawns
money
chips
cubes
meeples
little wooden houses
counters
plastic pieces that associate a person to a game element
wood
cardboard

Name 2 game designers of RussCon games.
23 Reiner Knizia
Frank & Doris
Tom Jolly
Wolfgang [uh...]
Russ Williams
Milton Bradley [sic]
5 Sid Sackson
Bruno Faidutti
4 Alan Moon
3 Klaus Teuber
Richard Borg
Klaus Jurgen-Wrede
Moore [sic]
Allan [sic]
Doris Matthaus
Frank Nestel

Name 2 game publishers of RussCon games.
14 Rio Grande
9 Hans Im Gluck
4 Avalon Hill
4 Mayfair
3 Cheapass Games
3 Hasbro
3 Winsome Games
2 Abacusspiele
Alea
Amiga
Descartes
Kosmos
Milton Bradley
Ravensburger
Reiner Knizia [sic]
San Rio [?]
Wizards of the Coast

Name 2 commercial sources from which you buy RussCon games.
18 Dragon's Lair
14 Great Hall Games
14 Funagain games
2 Adam Spielt
2 Boulder Games
Abacusspiele
Games Unique
Monde Des Jeux [a store in paris...]
Rio Grande
I don't.
internet

Name 2 other locations you play RussCon-style games besides Russ's house.
15 Great Hall Games
15 Marty's house
7 home 
2 Ed's house
2 (random unspecified) friend's house [bobr, dudley]
WBC
IBM
Dragon's Lair
Monde Des Jeux [a store in paris]
Carla's house [a house in paris]
jefff's place
Sea Biscuit's place
PJ's house
On the Web (For Whom The Web Rocks)
at work
I don't. = nowhere, sadly

Name 2 days of the week besides Wednesday on which you play games.
11 Monday
6 Tuesday
4 Thursday
12 Friday
13 Saturday
6 Sunday
what, there are other days than Wednesdays?!?

Name 2 popularly chosen colors for playing pieces.
13 Black
15 Red
9 Blue
9 Green
9 Purple
4 Yellow
Note: no white or orange!

Name 2 people who show up almost every week at RussCon.
20 JP
17 RussW
8 Marty
3 Daniel
3 Clayton
3 Dan
3 William
2 Whendy
Steve

Name 2 people who frequently win their games.
14 Daniel
11 JP
7 RussW
7 JeffF [one answer explained that Jeff Ford is a f*&^$%@ Russcon game God!]
5 Steve
3 Marty
2 Jeffles
DaveB
William
Fabien [some guy in paris...]
Dan

Name 2 people who spend a lot of time agonizing in their games.
21 JP [2 people both said JP & JP!]
8 Clayton
4 Whendy
2 RussW
2 Sea Biscuit
2 Steve
BobR
MarkY
Clay
Dominique & Sophie [a couple of people in paris...]
Allen
JimG
MarkH

Name 2 RussCon train games.
9 Stephensons Rocket
8 Union Pacific
7 Trainsport Austria
4 Transamerica
3 TrainsportPoopie = Trainsport (insert country here)
2 Ferrocarilles
1835
1840
1845
18xx
Dampfross
Empire Builder
Eurorails
Express
Great Brain Robbery
Metro
Railroad Barons
Silverton
Trainsport Switzerland
Uncle Happy's Train Game
Volldampf
don't remember names

Name 2 RussCon card games.
25 Tichu
6 Vampire
5 6Nimmt
4 Zirkus Flohcati
4 Frank's Zoo
3 Guillotine
2 Bohnanza
2 Mu
2 Zero
Fluxx
Hearts
Pig Pile
Tightrope
Titan the Arena
Was Sticht

Name 2 RussCon dice games.
25 Bluff
16 Can't Stop
8 Exxtra
Cosmic Coasters [sic]
Ghost Party
Kismet
Knights
Settlers
Yahtzee

Name 2 RussCon games with animals.
14 Frank's Zoo
11 HoneyBears
8 Hare and Tortoise
3 Durch die Wueste
3 Evo
2 Pig Pile
2 Tally Ho
2 Zirkus Flohcati
Chrononauts
Drakon
Hedgehogs in a Hurry
Lost Unicorn [?]
Mu [this has animals?  i guess dragons on the card art?]
Safari Jack
Samarkand
Settlers
Wildlife Adventure

Name 2 2-player RussCon games.
10 Babel [2 said babylon]
9 Lost Cities
Atomic Chess
5 Cosmic Coasters
6 Tally Ho
5 Cathedral
3 Brawl
3 Go
3 Schotten Totten
3 Tayu
Battle Cry
En Garde
Kahuna
the Egyptian card game [= babel? caesar and cleopatra?]

Name 2 Halloween RussCon games.
17 Ghost Party/Midnight Party
12 Vampire
5 Which Witch
3 Arkham Horror
2 Dungeon
2 Halloween [?? 2 people said this]
Chill: Blackmorn Manor
Gruesel Wuesel
Lord of the Fries
Monsters Ravage America

Name 2 RussCon drinks.
18 Dr. Pepper
13 Fresca
5 Sprite
5 water
4 Beer (shiner)
4 Coke
Arizona Ice Tea with ginsing
Boss
Diet Coke
Red stripe beer
soda
mango juice
Fanta
wine that Clayton brought

Name 2 RussCon foods.
16 Chips
9 Fudge/chocolate striped cookies
4 Sea biscuit
3 Candy
3 Cookies
2 popcorn
2 oatmeal cookies
2 chamoy pulpa [Ack... I can still taste that damn green crap]
Oreos
shortbread cookies
Nutter Butters
pie
funky chinese green crap
Strange Asian confections
BBQ potato chips
potato chips
Costco pizza
damn good cheese
cake
William's Japan balls
Reeses Pieces
seaweed


Name 2 weird or unpopular RussCon foods.
13 Sea Biscuit
11 Chamoy Pulpa
3 wasabi peas
anything William brings
funky chinese green crap
that soda with the smiling man
japanese crunchberry-tasting cheetos
stale shit
melted shit
umeboshi plum
japanese candy
Strange Asian confections
Turkish Delight
kitten pie [yeah...]
dried orange peel pellets (with some oriental name)
ginger candy (again some oriental name)
William's Japan balls
sweet potato chips
old flan
seaweed
botan rice candy
those gummy bear things

Name 2 foreign countries which RussCon gamers have visited.
22 France
14 England
4 Germany
3 New Zealand
2 Honduras
2 Mexico
2 Australia
2 Ghana
2 UK
Paris [sic]
Norway
Kenya
Ecuador
California [sic]
China
Italy

Name 2 catch-phrases or cliches uttered a lot at RussCon.
5 Go Red Bear
4 He's the Devil/the devil
3 Poop
2 Jedi Mind tricks
Basted in its own juices
the courteous player....
Huuuuugo!
shut up
cloister cluster
Riiiiiiiiiiight.
Fascinating, Captain
Oh!  That's so cuuuuuute!
I'm losing
wacky fun
it's just flavor art
We're all winners, really.
Why are you picking on *me*?
meeple
That's madness
No table talk!
You could have...
You must pay for your insulin
Agonizing phase
"NOOOOO"
"Wait for it..."
Fuck me!
"No agonizing!"
"What's the metagame this week?"
"Hot X on X action"
"Explosive diarrhea!"
This board sucks!
         
Name or briefly explain/identify 2 fun meta games that have been played at RussCon.
4 White elephant
3 points for wearing xyz Costume games ('dress up as xxx')
3 grrl power = drag night = grrrlz rule
3 guess the babyfood flavor
3 Werewolf
2 Family Feud, this one
2 The Search for the One Ring
2 Flower Power
2 points for playing xyz Play types of games that ... ('have xxx in the title', 'have to do with theme yyy', etc)
2 the (unspecified) food meta game [vague from 2 people]
card-trading
the one where folks had to refrain from saying an individual target word
first ever meta game [the properties of games one, 2000/9/27]
eat weird food meta game
bring weird food
Hat game
Monster Slayer
meta games are not fun
Using the same color piece in the most number of different games.
The last person to ask "What's the meta game?" will be the next week's meta devil.
latin america
The metagame where we got points based on the game's ranking on the top 100 games played at RussCon
guessing what was in the box William sent us from NYC
pirate
black & white

Name 2 music bands that Russ plays a lot at RussCon.
20 Clandestine aka that celtic one i always play etc
4 Beatles
2 Pink Floyd
2 Philip Glass
2 King Crimson
2 Hole
2 U2
Michael Nyman
Ennio Morricone
Marillion
Comic Book Whore [sic -- must mean Jane Jensen]
pansy division
the other one
Stereolab
Rammstein
Celtic Stone [sic]
NIN
Pixies
Star Wars soundtracks
Eve's Plum

Name 2 genres of music that Russ plays a lot at RussCon.
12 Celtic
8 Rock (rock & roll)
5 movie soundtracks
3 alternative
2 New Age
2 Indy
pop
opera
worldbeat
trance
Metal
Weird
Russ plays music?
minimalist
electronique
Odd
punk
folk
good
bad
irritating noise
Ennio Morricone [sic]
Goth
heavy girl rock
experimental

Thanks to:
Daniel
Clayton
JeffF
MarkY
Brady
Dan
Marty
BradS
Jason
Whendy
Jeffles
Alfred
Clay
JP
Sea Biscuit
TimG
BobR
PJ
Ben
William
RussD
JimG
Tim
Fina
MarkH
Dudley
DaveB
Matt
Kara