Last night we tried Pictureka, a funny little game of finding pictures in a large 9 piece board covered in pictures of varying sizes. The board elements are printed on both sides and can be flipped in play.
I wasn't sure how this would be received, as it's much more of a family/social game than our usual fare, but it seemed to produce a few laughs. Most particularly when I seemed to be unable to say the word 'pictureka' and came out with something like "E! E! Pe-cheecka!" Final scores: Myles 6,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sammywol 4, alaimacerc 3 and irishkate 1.
We then turned to Mamma Mia!, the pizza making memory game from Uwe Rosenberg, designer of Agricola, Le Havre and Bohnanza. We haven't played Mamma Mia! in years so the memory work began before the game as we tried to remember the rules. Boardgamegeek came to our rescue (our set having only French, German and Italian rules) and we got stuck in. The memory element wasn't as onerous as I'd remembered it and it was pretty even game after the second round. I won only on the tie-break. Final score: Myles 5,alaimacerc 5, irishkate and sammywol both on 4 (I don't recall who had more ingrediants left and was technically third).
It was fun to play two shorter games and I'd play either again happily.
I wasn't sure how this would be received, as it's much more of a family/social game than our usual fare, but it seemed to produce a few laughs. Most particularly when I seemed to be unable to say the word 'pictureka' and came out with something like "E! E! Pe-cheecka!" Final scores: Myles 6,
sammywol 4, alaimacerc 3 and irishkate 1.We then turned to Mamma Mia!, the pizza making memory game from Uwe Rosenberg, designer of Agricola, Le Havre and Bohnanza. We haven't played Mamma Mia! in years so the memory work began before the game as we tried to remember the rules. Boardgamegeek came to our rescue (our set having only French, German and Italian rules) and we got stuck in. The memory element wasn't as onerous as I'd remembered it and it was pretty even game after the second round. I won only on the tie-break. Final score: Myles 5,
alaimacerc 5, irishkate and sammywol both on 4 (I don't recall who had more ingrediants left and was technically third). It was fun to play two shorter games and I'd play either again happily.