Steph and I went to brunch at Palo Alto Breakfast House. It was really tasty and large portions. I was able to save enough of my chorizo and egg for a second meal. We met Lindsay and Jeremy there. After brunch Jeremy, Steph, and I went back to Beachhead and played some Mario 3D. We ended up beating the game, but found out there was a whole bonus world and decided to leave that for later. It was really fun, but some levels we were bad enough that the game gave us the golden tanuki leaves at the start of the level.
Steph and I found a neat stealth co-op game called Monaco. The premise is that you are thieves with special abilities and you are trying to steal all the things you can in the fastest time possible. It is a really fun game, but some parts of it are very difficult. It supports up to four players and would be the perfect kind of game to have on our system.
We played the expansion of Tzolk’in and I rather liked it. The tribes gave a very clear starting strategy and the intermediate goals gave something very solid to aim for in the middle of the game. We didn’t have enough for the quick action spots to matter, but we did get two games in. The first game was Iliya, Adam, and myself. I won with 104, using the fat tribe, which starts with 5 people but requires extra food. The second game was just Adam and myself, and he got 100 points with me at 50 points, despite 2 monuments.
We played a few rounds of Galaxy Trucker. Chris’s friend left before the final round, but things were good. Chris ended up winning and I got a close second. We played with a few debuffs, but the ones I got weren’t all that bad.
There was an 8 player game of Space Cadets: Dice Duel. The game was incredibly hectic. We switched up 4 times and played 4 games, with most people getting the chance to be weapons, engineering, navigator, and captain. The captain role was hard, since you had to keep track of all the game states. I liked the weapons the most, as you could focus on building the things. Navigation was also fun as you could try to plan out what you were doing against what the other players were doing. The people there were Stephanie, Chris, Erik, Dan, Tina, Chris’ Friend, and Jeff.
Yesterday I went to Box for games night. We played ticket to ride with a redditor(Adam), Nick, Brian, and a Boxer(Kevin). Adam ended up winning with me in a close second. Brian played a brilliant blocking move, which made a 14 point difference. I was ready to play the turn before that, but had to choose between him going one way or the other; I chose poorly.
Nick, Brian, and I then played Railways of the World the Card Game. It was really good, but none of us quite got the strategy. There is a major component of city stealing in the game that we didn’t take into account. This only becomes apparent at end game scoring time. Most of us were just prepping our own areas where we could deliver goods without having to give many points to the others.
We got back to long games day half way through. I hung around a bit and Steph went upstairs to work. I came downstairs and caught people in the middle of a game of Formula D. I joined in and helped Chris win. We then broke out Dungeon Petz and played the expansion. I did well, but not nearly as well as expected. I really liked the expansion parts and used them judiciously. There were a few that allowed more units, and I used that spot as much as possible. Tina ended up winning with the exhibition as the main decider for her. I didn’t get much out of my last few pets and that led to me getting second. I don’t remember the order of Chris and Adam in the game. I really liked the expansion and would be up for playing it again. I won’t get in nearly as much analysis paralysis since I now know more about what each spot does.
Steph, Adam, Dan, and I played the expansion of Suburbia. The new tile format, borders, was interesting, but it became pretty unusable pretty quickly if the tiles didn’t match up with what you needed. The first game ended badly for me since I chose poorly on one tile. That pretty much ended my game. Steph won it by a lot, with Adam and I tieing. The second game was Adam and myself, and it turned out much better. I was able to pull out a decisive victory with 151 points, just off the end of the board. The game is getting more complicated with the new tiles, and keeping track of what changes on your board when other things happens is getting to be cumbersome.
Michael and Jeremy joined Steph and I at Beachhead. Michael did some work, but Jeremy, Steph, and I played some Mario 3D. It is a well done game that has a lot of fun parts to it. There are also some really annoying parts that are hard to do with multiple players, or hard to do due to the camera angles in the 3D world. We played through worlds 4 and 5.
It's an Exciting World 