Illuminati
May. 19th, 2008 04:20 pmOn Saturday, I joined sonic, mobbsy, martin and pseudomonas for board games, and Mobbsy introduced us to Illuminati. This was something I'd heard about, and always felt I should play at some point, and it turns out it is pretty fun.
I've got a feeling there wasn't quite the full experience; we took a little while to get used to the mechanics, and so there wasn't as much cut-throat action as is possibly normal, but it's funny, and fairly easy to get into: the rules are somewhat complicated, but less so than many games and quite intuitive. And it took quite a while to get through a game.
But it didn't feel like a long time, it never dragged, and was definitely fun.
Thanks to Mobbsy for explaining the rules to us all, that's always a little uphill (especially if you feel constrained in your ability to play evilly and make backstabbing deals by having to compromise with the need to explain to people what's going on and what might be fair and what might not.)
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I've got a feeling there wasn't quite the full experience; we took a little while to get used to the mechanics, and so there wasn't as much cut-throat action as is possibly normal, but it's funny, and fairly easy to get into: the rules are somewhat complicated, but less so than many games and quite intuitive. And it took quite a while to get through a game.
But it didn't feel like a long time, it never dragged, and was definitely fun.
Thanks to Mobbsy for explaining the rules to us all, that's always a little uphill (especially if you feel constrained in your ability to play evilly and make backstabbing deals by having to compromise with the need to explain to people what's going on and what might be fair and what might not.)
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