Dog Carlo

After last week's no-show, we reassembled ourselves as a sextet. Martin, Joe, Ian, Katy, Andy and me. After a little bit of chat where we confirmed with each other that nothing had changed or happened in the last fortnight, we began with an intriguing word game, Haiclue. In this game there are four shared words and each player has to make a clue from the random letters in front of them. It’s like Dixit with words, as Joe explained. Sometimes, it was easy and sometimes you were left struggling. Andy’s main struggles were with the internet. Joe was left baffled that his clue wasn’t a huge success: his word was “daily” and his clue was “Start prey exit wolf.” No one got it, and no one was massively persuaded by the explanation - at the start of the day you pray and at the end of the day, wolves come out.

Martin 27

Katy 26

Joe 25

Ian 22

Andrew 22

Andy 20

Then we split into two groups of three. Joe, Martin and Katy set off for a game of Don Carlo, complete with mafia dogs. They played twice and Katy won both times. The second game was closer and that ended…

Katy 60

Martin 58

Joe 49

Meanwhile, Ian, Andy and I dug out Kingdom Builder. We got a spectator mid-game, but they didn’t stick around very long. Before long, Andy B predicts his own last place. I say that at least he’s having fun and he replied that he doesn’t like this game online. Oh well.

Ian 43

Andrew 39

Andy 28

Next up was a little Lucky Numbers, which is a rip snorting game of luck and cruel fate that we played in near silence. 

Andy 16

Andrew 14

Ian 12

Next played Coloretto, mostly notable for Andy losing his internet connection twice within the first six cards.

Ian 45

Andy 36

Andrew 32

Now we were all back together we had a game of For Sale. Martin was appalled at his play: he paid 3 coins for a 3 card which he later sold for 3. Symmetrical perhaps, but not a winning strategy. Instead that belonged to Katy who came first despite never having won a single buying round. 

Katy 53

Ian 49

Andrew 48

Joe 46

Andy 33

Martin 30

Martin’s last place saw his ELO rating drop below mine and Ian’s!

And on that bombshell, all that was left was for us to say our goodbyes and go. Cheers all, see you soon.