This game of imperfect knowledge and wheeler dealing is a fun version of the German stock exchange, where you can pretend that the racks of cards are gossip from insider traders that you can use to manipulate the market.
But I struggled early on. I watched as brown (Coffee? Hessian? Driftwood?) rocketed in price, but I clung on to my belief that my whites and yellows were fine. Which they kind of were, but not enough to make my donations good enough for God, so I came last.
New boy Will came a respectable third, while Joe put everything into not coming last and, so, came fourth. In the end, we were aghast at Sam and Adam's mastery of the markets, as both came out with over one thousand points, with Adam taking a comfortable win in fine style.
Adam 1660
Sam 1295
Will 910
Joe 780
Andrew OUT! Not pious enough!
After this, Adam kindly agreed to play High Society, his bête noire, his bogey team, his Kryptonite. At least, that's what we all thought. Meanwhile, Joe bid high for a 10 point card, but then lost it at the end, when he had no money left to avoid picking up the "lose a card" card. Will ended with least money, while Adam somehow defeated his curse and came out on top.
Adam 10
Andrew 9
Sam 6
Joe 0
Will OUT! Not rich enough!
It was still early(ish) and, you know, it's been a few weeks since we'd had a flurry of silly light games, and so we were in the mood for 6nimmt. This was also new to Will, but it's so simple that we thought it wouldn't be a huge burden. Turns out we were wrong – he came last. But the rest of us had fun, and that's what games are all about, right guys?
Adam ended a good evening with his third win in a row.
Adam 11
Sam 28
Joe 41
Andrew 42
Will 70
On the form table, Adam leaps to first place with his trilogy of conquests.
| Points | ||||||
| Adam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| Sam | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| Hannah | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| Anja | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
| Andrew | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| Steve | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| Joe | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16 |
| Jon | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
| Will | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 23 |
Meanwhile, in Bracknell, Paul notched up his first win of the season by turning green and muscular and tipping the table over during Tikal.
Paul 124
Chris 104
James 98
Actually, in the email Chris sent to me, he said that Paul's tactic of hoarding goods served him well. I thought, "Didn't Paul do well at that zombie apocalypse game too?" So if there's ever a national crisis that involves staying indoors all day, I know where I'm heading.
Alas, Paul's incredible hulk-like adventure didn't last and by the time they set up 7 Wonders, he was a gaming Bruce Banner again. James stole the win from Chris by a narrow margin.
James 48 (and 10 money)
Chris 48 (and 1 money)
Paul 39
Nice to re-visit Hab and Gut - how the hell do you win it though?
ReplyDeleteI pulled the 'just don't come last' trick in both H&G and High Society, securing myself second to last places in each.
Great to play a few shorter games too - Hab & Gut is teeny-tiny time-wise for the amount of game isn't it?
By the way, Adam, you may be interested to know that the day after this GNN night, I went to lunch with Sam and Joe, and Joe kept saying "How did he win all three?" and Sam insisted that you were about to get the perfect five, and that we had to stop you.
ReplyDeleteAgricola next week?
ReplyDeleteErsby, you bloody grass!
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