The Oxford Meeples had another
quarterly games day, and I had a great time again.
We started with a well kept, but clearly cheaply produced,
edition of Acquire (thin
cards, paper money supplied on a glue-edged pad). It seemed to make
more sense this time than when I played some years ago.
Pause for lunch and pipe and Bird Friend.
The for-sale table. I suspect there are people who'd regard both of
these as classics, and I believe they're rare enough now (in spite of
the huge numbers that were printed) to go for non-trivial money. But
those people are hard to find.
Next Biblios; I think
I've only played Biblios Dice before, which retains the two-part
play but is otherwise quite a different game. Functionally abstract,
which was fine, and if I overcommitted to one colour at least I won
that. In the other colours I'd had any chance at, other people had
much more…
Arigatō, much more fun
than on BoardGameArena (as most games are) though having to look up
the iconography rather than hover a mouse pointer over it can be hard
work. This time the cards very much did not fall in my favour.
As we were starting to feel a bit brained out, I suggested
Lemminge, which rapidly
became Very Silly (and, of course, vicious, as it should be).
And finally Cartagena, a
game of escaping pirates. Play a card to move forward to the next free
symbol of that type; move a pirate back to another to draw another
card or two. Very little to do with any sort of physical process, but
rather enjoyable, though I suspect with fewer players one should
shrink the map to keep things interesting.
