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mylescorcoran) wrote2009-02-16 11:30 am
mylescorcoran) wrote2009-02-16 11:30 am
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[boardgames] Sunday night at Casa Corcoran
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alaimacerc round last night for a couple of games. He lugged his copy of Ticket to Ride over and we settled down to play out a fairly tight game on the original map. Helena (*ptoui*) turned into a crucial hub and I was screwed out of connecting through to Calgary right on the last move. Served me right for leaving it so long, but I really didn't have the choice.
Final score werealaimacerc 128, sammywol 123, mylescorcoran 117.
With a swing of 26 points on that Calgary ticket I'm really kicking myself I didn't make that 1-train connection in time.
We then played one hand of Money by Reiner Knizia, a newly purchased blind-bidding game as recommended byshannon_a. We just tried a single hand of it to get the hang of it due to time constraints, and alaimacerc took the prize there too, with the score sammywol 250, mylescorcoran 570 and alaimacerc 780. Again, my stupid fault for bidding all my Euros out when I should have held back one note to stop alaimacerc from taking the full set.
Still, good fun, and a nice end to a busy weekend of parties for our daughter who turned 6 on Friday. I'll try and get the photos up and post about that later in the week.
alaimacerc round last night for a couple of games. He lugged his copy of Ticket to Ride over and we settled down to play out a fairly tight game on the original map. Helena (*ptoui*) turned into a crucial hub and I was screwed out of connecting through to Calgary right on the last move. Served me right for leaving it so long, but I really didn't have the choice.Final score were
alaimacerc 128, sammywol 123, mylescorcoran 117.With a swing of 26 points on that Calgary ticket I'm really kicking myself I didn't make that 1-train connection in time.
We then played one hand of Money by Reiner Knizia, a newly purchased blind-bidding game as recommended by
shannon_a. We just tried a single hand of it to get the hang of it due to time constraints, and alaimacerc took the prize there too, with the score sammywol 250, mylescorcoran 570 and alaimacerc 780. Again, my stupid fault for bidding all my Euros out when I should have held back one note to stop alaimacerc from taking the full set.Still, good fun, and a nice end to a busy weekend of parties for our daughter who turned 6 on Friday. I'll try and get the photos up and post about that later in the week.
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Very odd being back in the wide open spaces of the US again, board-wise. There was definitely still some "interaction", but rather more of the "... so, I'll take the slightly longer way, then" sort. While the game ended up close enough for the tickets to matter somewhat, they really seem much less so than those long routes. Latterly I was toying with taking some extra tickets after making my first five, but it didn't seem worth it compared to getting some gratuitous point from some length 4 and 6 segments to noplace-in-particular.
Hilarious seeing every single route in and out of Helena in use, given its often-noted status in Transamerica...