This small one-day boardgaming event has been
resurrected with new organisers, but still at the same village hall in
Deepest Buckinghamshire. Up to about 30-ish people this time. With
images; cc-by-sa on
everything.
First game of the day was
Whitehall Mystery,
and we chose the cunning Diplomacy player to be Jack. And he did a great
job: lots of doubling back, spurious special movements, and so on. I
think we saw about four or five clues in the whole game.
We still caught him on his way to the final dump site, but it was a
very close-run thing.
Next was a five-player game of
Vast: The Crystal Caverns.
This has been a bit overshadowed recently by Root, but I found it
great fun, and it didn't feel like the four-hour game that it was.
Rules could certainly have been clearer in several spots.
Even at the end we all felt that we were reasonably close to victory.
We went on to
Miskatonic University Restricted Collection,
a surprisingly luck-based game by Reiner Knizia. You're basically
trying to collect sets of cards without getting duplicates of any of
them; you have various ways of mitigating that, before or after the
draw.
And it was quite enjoyable, though there wasn't really much decision
making to do most of the time.
Finally,
Sushi Go, in
which I did slightly better than usual but nothing like well enough to
win.
The next one's on 21 September.
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