Games evening
Jan. 13th, 2006 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackBeing before term, tuesday was another games evening, to see Susan and Pete, and do something with my mind.
N-tropy: I think I got the awful pun right. Rather like Jenga with millions of massive toothpicks, you place a rod on a growing construction, losing when it falls over, or taking any few that fall off, and winning when you run out. Much fun making impossibly precarious situations.
A cross between plasticine modelling and 20 questionsI'm not good at this sort of thing, though guessed a couple. I do very much like the concept of designing a model to be guessed neither early nor late, but somewhere in the middle.
Arc of the Covenant: A modified Carcosonne. I didn't play, but I think it was enjoyed, if mainly for exclaiming woefully "That's not how it happened in the book of Samuel!"
I don't know what a perfect Carcosonne would be. I think I remember a Simon version?
Spit Racing demon is in its own post, but in place, I give you spit, another reaction-relevent card game. (Though our rules were slightly different). Does anyone else remember this? We had quite a craze at school; quick-reflex and bright people both liked it.
It was nice that most of the time it was quick, but occasionally the other player would stall, and you'd suddenly play as cautiously as you ever do to continue without letting them in.
Octiles and Quoridor Both pleasant some strategy games that I somehow managed to win. Well worth a look.
N-tropy: I think I got the awful pun right. Rather like Jenga with millions of massive toothpicks, you place a rod on a growing construction, losing when it falls over, or taking any few that fall off, and winning when you run out. Much fun making impossibly precarious situations.
A cross between plasticine modelling and 20 questionsI'm not good at this sort of thing, though guessed a couple. I do very much like the concept of designing a model to be guessed neither early nor late, but somewhere in the middle.
Arc of the Covenant: A modified Carcosonne. I didn't play, but I think it was enjoyed, if mainly for exclaiming woefully "That's not how it happened in the book of Samuel!"
I don't know what a perfect Carcosonne would be. I think I remember a Simon version?
Spit Racing demon is in its own post, but in place, I give you spit, another reaction-relevent card game. (Though our rules were slightly different). Does anyone else remember this? We had quite a craze at school; quick-reflex and bright people both liked it.
It was nice that most of the time it was quick, but occasionally the other player would stall, and you'd suddenly play as cautiously as you ever do to continue without letting them in.
Octiles and Quoridor Both pleasant some strategy games that I somehow managed to win. Well worth a look.
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Date: 2006-01-13 02:06 pm (UTC)I think our rules were different in that:
Your deck in the middle, next to the spit pile.
But we didn't have names for any of the piles, nor shout spit.
You normally played onto the pile you turned up.
When you won a round (cleared the stock) you chose the smaller pile. (There was a custom that you couldnt' count, but you could press down and look from the side.)
The end is the same, but we described it a bit differently. It could take *ages*