We had CTS at Oblivion. There weren't that many people[1], and not who I normally see at all, but we had an awful lot of fun for a little while. Then I snuck round to games evening, where I was surprised to find other assassin/sgo people had had the same idea, and was surprisingly crowded.
[1] Insert self-beating-up rant about how I some CTS people were going to the beer festival, and some don't like beer, and some had exams, and I had to decide whether to announce a beerfest innmoot instead, and couldn't find out how many people would prefer it, and had to choose knowing either choice would be wrong.
Alex and I taught Jon Quorridor -- a little bit of practice really does make it very easy to explain, and it was fun. With three or four players you do always end up with a political situation. OTOH in the second game we veyr nearly ended up with a stalemate[2], that's really hard in quorridor.
[2] We had formed a narrow corridor along the edge of the board which I had to get to, and J and A had to get through, and all got there at the same time. If I'd been slightly later and the walls had been slightly different, they might have been able to cooperate to prevent me getting in and winning (you can jump over one player but not two) but been unable to move away themselves.
Then we played DOG BITES MAN, a wonderfully silly game where you have to make newspaper headlines out of five cards with a word on. It is very fun, though could be improved a lot by having a correlation between how hard it is to make a sentence and how many points you're supposed to get. For instance, -1 for each card in hand, +1 for each permutation of cards still a plausible headline. Or just give high scores to words hard to use and low scores to generic adjectives. Or have semicolon cards.
I came home, and realised the reason I was hungry was I hadn't eaten anything since cereal for breakfast. I wish I could occupy middle ground.
[1] Insert self-beating-up rant about how I some CTS people were going to the beer festival, and some don't like beer, and some had exams, and I had to decide whether to announce a beerfest innmoot instead, and couldn't find out how many people would prefer it, and had to choose knowing either choice would be wrong.
Alex and I taught Jon Quorridor -- a little bit of practice really does make it very easy to explain, and it was fun. With three or four players you do always end up with a political situation. OTOH in the second game we veyr nearly ended up with a stalemate[2], that's really hard in quorridor.
[2] We had formed a narrow corridor along the edge of the board which I had to get to, and J and A had to get through, and all got there at the same time. If I'd been slightly later and the walls had been slightly different, they might have been able to cooperate to prevent me getting in and winning (you can jump over one player but not two) but been unable to move away themselves.
Then we played DOG BITES MAN, a wonderfully silly game where you have to make newspaper headlines out of five cards with a word on. It is very fun, though could be improved a lot by having a correlation between how hard it is to make a sentence and how many points you're supposed to get. For instance, -1 for each card in hand, +1 for each permutation of cards still a plausible headline. Or just give high scores to words hard to use and low scores to generic adjectives. Or have semicolon cards.
I came home, and realised the reason I was hungry was I hadn't eaten anything since cereal for breakfast. I wish I could occupy middle ground.