Games evening

[jack]

Being 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.

Comments

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

A perfect Carcassonne would be one where Arnaud-Amaury didn't win.

(Was that obscure enough?)

[lnr]

Yeah, I used to play "spit" at home, though it was sometimes called "split", and we left the stock piles next to the spit piles rather than holding them, we just knew whose was whose, and we only yelled "spit" when slapping the stack we were going to have next.

We have a version of N-tropy called Chairs, where the pieces are all small plastic chairs, about 3 inches tall, in several different designs so they interlock in interesting ways. If it all falls over you haven't lost, you just add *all* the chairs to your pile the same way you would if just one or two fell off and carry on playing until someone runs out and wins.

[mair_in_grenderich]

we played spit! I used to beat people even when they were cheating!

it was called 'rush' by the people who first introduced us to it though.

[mair_in_grenderich]

That jenga one reminds me of - Mikado? Where you throw down a pile of cocktail sticks and take it in turns to pull one out without moving the rest ...

strange

[mair_in_grenderich]

why didn't anyone pedant your apostrophe yet?

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Spit?

The competative speed solitaire patience thing? or something different?