Games Evening

[jack]

I had a lovely evening at alex's games evening.

1. I played Agricola (new German-type board game) for the second time ever, and didn't really do very well, but it's fun and easy to play the second time: already, even if you can't play well, it's easy to form a strategy and to play quickly and sensibly. Definitely play again.

2. Douglas brought and unfolded in the living room a collapsible play pen, complete with toys and baby, who wandered round, just able to stand up holding on to someone's hand for balance, but only a little bit of support.

3. I saw a game of magic which made me laugh out loud several times. It pleases me humour can come in such a wide variety of media.

4. I played three games of (9x9) Go, for the first time since I was about second year. The first I played second and lost, the second I played first and lost by one point, and the third I played first and won by eight points. I almost feel I'd like to play Go again, as it's a sophisticated game but one it's fairly easy to get into, although I remember feeling a bit intimidated the few times I played Go players who really were better than me.

Comments

[liv]

I'll play go with you if you like. I feel about the same about it, I sort of know how to play, but most of my experience has been years ago, and with opponents who were so vastly better than me that it was a bit ridiculous. So I think we might be reasonably well matched, and I bet there are ways to play online, at a relaxed pace, so we could chat at the same time.

[jack]

That would be really nice, actually. I really love talking to you and spending time with you in any way, but more ways to spend time together is definitely good :)