Medici in excelsis

Tuesday evening rolled around, Venus sat high and bright in the night sky, and people descended on Joe's for some table-top fun. First, Joe regaled us with his tales of meeting the chief play-tester for Martin Wallace games. The very same Martin Wallace who we'd been cursing for his lack of play-testing only seven days previously. Meanwhile, Quentin marvelled at the idea of having so many play-testers that you needed a chief one to keep the others in check.

With late arrivals expected, Joe, Andrew and Quentin played a couple of light games of For Sale. Andrew won the first one after a recount (sorry Quentin), and it doesn't matter who won the second one, does it? Probably Joe.

Then Quentin departed for work reasons, as Sam and newcomer Will joined us. Since it was quite late to start a large-scale game, Medici was decided upon. Will quickly picked up the rules and was impressed by the range of strategies that could be employed, but the plaudits went to Andrew who rode his luck with some randomly drawn tiles at the end of rounds one and two. This put him in a strong second place, from which he pushed into first while Joe dropped to second due to him and Sam battling over the same commodities.

This was followed by some light relief in the shape of No Thanks. A low scoring first game was played out with Joe winning on a Roger Bannister-esque epoch-defining minus 6 points! And this, only minutes after telling Will that a score below zero was pretty much impossible. Almost as remarkable was Andrew's display in the second game, which saw him involuntarily picking up high cards due to a lack of chips and ending with 118.

And now the moment you've all been waiting for...

The Leaderboard!

Points: First place gets 3 points, Second place gets one. In the event of equal points in the table, the person who's turned up to the most evenings is given preference as a reward for most loyalty to the cause! (And as compensation for not having a life.) “Light” games aren't included (ie, Perudo, No Thanks, etc) although we can change this. I've also included the scores from the previous games night reports we did by email, although a couple of them didn't mention second places.

	Played	Points
Joe	10	15
Adam	10	10
Sam	6	9
Andrew	12	6
Steve	3	6
Jonny	5	0
Quentin	1	0
Hannah	1	0
Will	1	0

As you can see, the idea that Adam always wins is a myth, and it's Joe we need to start going for.