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.
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We still caught him on his way to the final dump site, but it was a
very close-run thing.
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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.
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Rules could certainly have been clearer in several spots.
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Even at the end we all felt that we were reasonably close to victory.
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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.
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And it was quite enjoyable, though there wasn't really much decision
making to do most of the time.
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Finally,
Sushi Go, in
which I did slightly better than usual but nothing like well enough to
win.
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The next one's on 21 September.
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