{"id":625,"date":"2006-11-11T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T23:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=625"},"modified":"2006-11-11T23:59:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T23:59:59","slug":"bggcon_saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"BGG.CON: Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_2468.jpg\" alt=\"Game #1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI was reading the rules to Fiji, but had to take a break.  For it was flea<br \/>\nmarket time.  What a madhouse!  I did buy Goldbr&auml;u but had to leave<br \/>\nsince the mad press of people was getting to me&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_2469.jpg\" alt=\"Game #1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/game\/21704\">Fiji<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe first of the new Friese games that I played was Fiji.  It is a quick and<br \/>\nlight filler game that uses simultaneous reveal as its mechanics.  There are<br \/>\nfour rounds of the following:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nDistribute beads: Everyone gets 5 green, 4 red, 3 yellow, and 2 blue beads.<br \/>\nPut the same amount in the center of the board.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nDetermine exchange conditions: There will be four groups of two cards.  The<br \/>\nfirst card says what the goal is.  The second card is the action that is taken<br \/>\nif the goal is fulfilled.  A goal can be the most of one or more colors or<br \/>\nthe least of one or more colors.  The action can be to take some number of<br \/>\ngems (varies based on the color), or half rounded down of a color, or everyone<br \/>\nelse but you takes one, or some funky actions like mess with the ranking<br \/>\nof colors or take back what gems that you showed.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nDetermine goal conditions: There are four cards (one for each color).  The<br \/>\ncard will say if you are going for the most or the fewest of a color.  Remember<br \/>\nthat when you shuffle these cards, suffle their orientations as well!  The<br \/>\norder of the cards determine tie breakers.  The color on the leftmost is the<br \/>\none that you are going for with ties broken by the next leftmost.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nThe exchange:  There are three rounds of exchanging.  Players simultaneously<br \/>\npick from one to four beads and place them in their hand.  They are revealed<br \/>\nand we will check the four conditions one at a time.  The trick here is that<br \/>\nif players are tied for the most\/least of something, then the next place<br \/>\nperson wins.  If everyone is tied, then noone wins.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nDistribute shrunken heads:  The first place player will get a number of heads<br \/>\ntotalling the number of people in the game minus one.  The second player will<br \/>\nget one less.  And so on&#8230;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAll in all, it was a light game.  You must like the simultaneous revealing<br \/>\nof gems part because you do a lot of it.  Of course, it sucks to have your<br \/>\ncount be duplicated by people for one or more goal conditions and therefore<br \/>\nbe nullified.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_2471.jpg\" alt=\"Game #2\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/game\/21954\">Perikles<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI was happy when Kevin was carrying around Perikles and wanted to play it.<br \/>\nWe found four other people and started explaining the game.  Unfortunately<br \/>\nfor me, it was right around 1pm when we finished the first round of the game.<br \/>\nI was hungry for lunch and wanted to run down to get something to go.  Sadly,<br \/>\nno one else wanted to do that so they used that opportunity to stop playing<br \/>\nthe game.  So not much to report here as I need a full playing of it.  Gah!<br \/>\nToo bad my gaming group is anti-Wallace.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_2472.jpg\" alt=\"lunch\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI went to lunch with Kevin, Debra, Kevin, Tim, Mary, and Marty.  During<br \/>\nlunch, the topic of which show had the most spinoffs.  Both Happy Days and<br \/>\nCheers were discussed.  Of course, there was massive verification as<br \/>\nthree people in this picture web surfed on their PDAs.  Such geeks&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_2473.jpg\" alt=\"Game #3\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/game\/24181\">Imperial<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother playing of Imperial.  And this time I knew what I was doing and I was<br \/>\nFrance.  I was able to build up her forces rather nicely.  Which painted a<br \/>\nhugh bulls-eye on me.  One of the interesting things about this is that there<br \/>\nare two ways people can resolve this.  They can either beat the country down<br \/>\nby taking back the territory and destroying the armies\/navies.  Or, they<br \/>\ncan just buy shares in that country.  If they go the shares route, then<br \/>\nthey can either go for a minority holding in your country and let you run<br \/>\nthings because you know what you are doing.  Or, they can go for a hostile<br \/>\ntakeover and do something else with the country.  Interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the rules to Fiji, but had to take a break. For it was flea market time. What a madhouse! I did buy Goldbr&auml;u but had to leave since the mad press of people was getting to me&#8230; Fiji The first of the new Friese games that I played was Fiji. 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