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Neighbourly Games 22 July 25 July 2024

More gaming with some nearby friends.

Several older and quite lightweight games tonight, starting with Rummikub, a sort of gin rummy in which you can not only extend but also modify other people's melds. I found this suffered from a high threshold to start the game (if you haven't played 30 points from your own hand, you can't then get into the interesting bit of modifying other melds), and of course a lot of chance, but various tactics became apparent during the game.

Then on to Qwirkle, which I've seen but never played. Once we'd worked out what was going on (my goodness the rules quality is not what it might be, particularly for a family game), this went very well indeed, though we found ourselves holding back to avoid building near-sets that other players could complete.

Since one has to score as one goes along, I can trace our scores through the game:

Finally SET, which reminded me quite a bit of Iota: one similarly has to make sets of cards that either all differ or all match in each characteristic. But there's no positional element, which make the game less of a chore than Iota can sometimes be.

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