Game Day 07/26/2007

Game #2

Easy Come, Easy Go

Jon call me up at 6:30 and tells me he is still at work. Sigh… Where are your priorities, Jon?! So we played some light filler games. Three games of the dice fest called Easy Come Easy Go. And the winning condition certainly slipped in and out of your fingers easily enough.

Game #2

Bunte Runde

After three games of Easy Come, Easy Go, we played a game of Bunte Runde. Without the rules. But we think that we remembered enough of the key points to get the gist of it correct. The only hiccup was during the final scoring and we just played that everyone would score all of their points.

Game #3

Arkadia

Next up was Arkadia. Which was good. Definitely a recommended game to buy. My mistake was playing off by myself and not figuring out what colors upstream people were going for and to go after them as well.

During game play, Doug had this quote:

Men are tight in this game!

So that, coupled with the strange noises Doug kept making during the game (annoying his brother Jon), got us off on a tangent. We made strange noises as well and said that they were porn noises… Poor John dealt with us with patience.

Tichu

On Doug’s third Tichu call, he had two bombs (an eight bomb and a two bomb). And yet I still was able to stop him. I was a little bit too safe during this game. And it cost me the win. In hindsight, there were two Tichu calls that I could have made but didn’t. I considered making them before playing, of course. But, in the end, decided against it. Sigh…


07/26/2007 The scorecard for a game of Tichu

GT or T bet made or lost

This team scored more points than the other or one twoed

GT/T Team #1 GT/T GT/T Team #2 GT/T
MarkH & JohnG Jon & DougG
 
175
T+   25  
  475 T+   25  
 
460
T- T+ 140  
  460     340  
T+ 610   T- 290  
  640    
460
T+
 
695
    505  
  730    
570
 
  735    
565
T-
  760    
640
 
  760     940 T+
 
835
    965  
GT- 635     1165