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 03:13 pm (UTC)I used to beat people even when they were cheating!
Go flurble. I never understood cheating. I didn't notice it at spit, and was probably right. But I remember being little and playing "spot the most cars of X colour", and feeling sure my friend was just making them up, and other people saying "hang on, you went up by 10 there, didn't you" but if he denies it not knowing how to not accept that.
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Date: 2006-01-13 03:22 pm (UTC)Cheating -> did you ever play cheat?
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Date: 2006-01-13 04:36 pm (UTC)Cheating -> did you ever play cheat?
Oh yes, I was *awful*. I didn't like bluffing. And I was always unreasonably excited when people cheated in other ways but wouldn't incorporate that into the rules in any manner.
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Date: 2006-01-13 04:48 pm (UTC)