Greenenders - Games Evening

[jack]

With the absense of CTS, I went to games evening. This always leads to an episode full of pseudojokes which just aren't funny.

Q. Did you hear about the guy who sat there like a chump -- literally[1] -- for six rounds?
A. No, what?
Q. He dealt 16 points of damage and own[2]ed the game in one round because he had two attack-twice-for-four-damge-if-you-have-this-other-card cards, and this other card.

Q. Did you hear about the guy who put his last Carcossone piece on a road, and then turned up a cloister and couldn't use it? Twice?

We played magic, castles in the air, and carcossone. Public Service Announcement: farmers are good for the environment. I don't know how representative my experience is, but both games I won by being the only person with m/any farmers. Though this game I was ahead even before that because I unfairly stole a place in the great big city two other people were building, and negated their advantage; though we did move the fourth player back rather than three forward, putting her unfortunately negative. (*hugs Jaqueline*)

[1] Chump blocker: a small creature that dies to deflect a big creature. One of our opponents had a deck of many little glass beads being put under out control. Also useful against anything for which card art is an effect. And good for 'colourless weenie' jokes.

[2] Won. But "own" that was a typo and I thought it was funnier. I *so* need an acronym for that, that isn't PNI.

Comments

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I love Castles In The Air! *bounces*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I won that one too, I don't know how.

Oooh! I love Castles In The Air! *bounces*

Why didn't you come then?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Cos it's miles and miles and miles to Arbury, I will not walk to/from there on my own reasonably late in the evening and I didn't know if anyone else I knew well was coming. Also, I needed to have dinner and do Stuff.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Shinyicon!

*graverobs*

Fair enough, I forget you don't cycle. I think the bus is reasonably convenient, though, actually.

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

It is reasonably convenient *going*. Games Evening ends after the last bus returns to the town centre, which is just irritating either way (walking back or leaving early both bad).

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. Buses until 11? I forget it isn't the weekend. This is where I wish I had a car.

[simont]

I *so* need an acronym for that

A related word in use around the Gallery environs, originally invented I think by ceb, is "threemwag".

It's best defined by example, and the best example is the original one. Some years ago drswirly told a group of us that a friend of his had auditioned for Countdown, and mentioned one of the more fun conundrums they'd been set during the qualification tests. The conundrum was THREWGAME. We puzzled over this for a while, and before we eventually got the actual answer Clare suddenly shouted out "THREEMWAG!", and then looked surprised and said "Ooh, that was a better word than I expected."

So a threemwag, or a situation in which one shouts "threemwag!", is defined by analogy as any word, sentence, pun, etc. which is created by accident or with only limited intention, and which turns out to have good qualities which weren't intentionally put there.

I don't know if that's of any help to you, but I mention it just in case :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Aha! Thank you!

Yes, that is exactly the meaning I want, and that will even be familiar to some of my audience. The only drawback is that it probably requires an extensive acronym tag every time to explain it, but I don't think I'll find anything better for the moment. I only hope it *can* take on NPI.

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

Public Service Announcement: farmers are good for the environment. I don't know how representative my experience is, but both games I won by being the only person with m/any farmers.

Unsurprising. IME, most games of Carcassonne are won or lost on farmers.

(S)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I haven't played enough to know. I wasn't sure if farmers were that important, or just unnoticed by other (novice) players.

I had the impression in the version we had people thought cloisters (<=9 points) were unbalancing, but they still ran up.

Certainly I want to get out before people start remembering which tiles exist in the deck :)