Game Night: Saturday 5-4-2002 & 5-11-2002

Industrial Waste
Was Stitch

 

Ed Jen John P.
Ray Steve Suzanne
 

As with all warmer weather, attention turns away from game night.  Still, we had a  riotous game of "Was Sticht?" 2 weeks ago, that saw Jen not only play. but win.  "Was Stitch?" is the trick taking game where you have to select a "goal" chit for each hand, such as "take no green tricks".

 

Was Stitch Winner Jen
 
Last week, Ed brought over a new game called "Industrial Waste".  The players each run a company and try to maximize money on hand.  It is somewhere between Medici and Aladdin's dragon in complexity, but the time went by fast, which is always a good sign.  You have raw materials, waste (ugh), and workers.  I specialized in reducing my force costs, Alias Johnny concentrated on getting the best price for his orders, and Ed tried to be a generalist, but ended up chasing the big orders too.  I ended the game with so much in raw materials, that I was dumping it in the river.  I ended up winning, but I think it had more to do with controlling the raw materials bidding.  Here is the cool part.  You exercise a right to auction raw materials and if someone else buys it other than you, you get the money.  I really soaked at the right times.
 
Industrial Waste Winner Ray 40 - John P. 34 - Ed 31

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Game Night: Saturday 5-18-2002

Industrial Waste
Medici
Take 6

 

Don B. Ed Jen
John P. Lisa Ray

A slow weekend.  At 9:30 we hauled out Industrial Waste again (nice turn of the phrase, eh?) with myself, Ed, Johnny, and Jen.  At 11:30 we were 1 or 2 turns from the end and I made a bad decision.  I waited one turn to long.  Ed overtook me in the last turn and won.  This game is fun, but deceptively long.  It seems like settlers in that respect, but keeps the pace going by doing round robin action turns.  Not a ton of down time.  This time, in stead of being union breakers, most of us became efficient users of resources, cut down waste, and had bloated payrolls.

Industrial Waste Winner Ed 74 - Ray 70 - Jen 53 - John P. 10

Just as we were getting toward the end, Don and Lisa showed up fresh from the Opera.  This meant that Don immediately needed alcohol.  We decided to play Medici since Lisa had not yet played it.  Then, I quickly and clumsily dumped Don's vodka all over his pants.  Quite a soaker.  But, since Don could not feel his legs by this time, he hardly noticed.  Ed slaughtered most of us by the end of day two.  His boat, was a piece of paper with the word "BOAT" written on it, since the black boat tile has gone missing.  Any information on its whereabouts will remain confidential.  Please call now.

By now the rum smoothies were really kicking in (fresh mango and limes!).  By the time everyone left, Jen passed out.  In the morning, well, it was bad.

Medici Winner Ed 125 - John P. 122 - Ray 105 - Don B. 102 - Jen 99 - Lisa 88

Take 6 Winner Ray 19 - John P. 23 - Ed 38 - Lisa 42 - Jen 45 - Don B. 85

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Game Night: Saturday 5-25-2002

Carcassonne
Labyrinth: The Card Game
Rage
Schotten-Totten
Zero

 

Ed Jen John P.
Laura Ray Suzanne
Schotten-Totten is the showdown with Scotsman.  Even though we play the basic version, a fabulous 2 player card game.

Schotten-Totten Winner Laura 5 - Ray 4

Labyrinth is new and I compare it to "set", but for idiots!  This makes it great.

Labyrinth: The Card Game Winner Ed 14 - Ray 13 - Suzanne 10

Carcassonne has a new expansion which adds a 6th player!  Excellent, but a little longer.

Carcassonne Winner Jen 60 - Ray 56 - Suzanne 56 - John P. 55 - Ed 43

In zero, Alias Johnny amazed us all by having such bad hands.. that no one noticed that Suzanne never took any points...

Zero Winner Ed 34 - Jen 37 - Ray 38 - John P. 59 - Suzanne 160

Rage was quite the battle of the tipsy card players...  someone probably won...

Rage Winner Suzanne 88 - Ed 64 - Jen 62 - Ray 45 - John P. 43

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