{"id":1188,"date":"2008-08-28T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2008-08-28T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T22:14:13","slug":"game_day_082808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Game Day 08\/28\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-2N8I6341.JPG\" alt=\"Game #1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/36481\">Age of Steam Expansion &#8211; Texas, Oklahoma &amp; New Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWinsome&#8217;s 2008 Essen pack was shipped early to me.  In it was an Age of Steam expansion about Texas and cattle.  We tried it out.  Of course we got a couple of the rules wrong.  But that did not make this game broken.  In fact, it made it harder.  Which, in my opinion is a good thing.  This expansion is designed to make it easier for beginners.  There is the normal goods on the board.  And there also is a bunch of cattle which can be transported as goods.  This is way too many goods for a group of seasoned players.  So the mistake of not filling up the new goods section turned this game into a more normal version.  With an interesting cattle twist.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-2N8I6342.JPG\" alt=\"Game #2\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/215\">Suicide Tichu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWe finished up with an abbreviated game of Suicide Tichu.  This was Marty&#8217;s first time and he liked it.\n<\/p>\n<table border='1'>\n<caption style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n<em><br \/>\n08\/28\/2008 The scorecard for a game of Tichu<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGT or T bet <span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 0)'>made<\/span> or <span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0)'>lost<\/span><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis team scored <span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 128, 0)'>more points<\/span> than the other or <span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128)'>one twoed<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th rowspan='2' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\nGT\/T\n<\/th>\n<th style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\nTeam #1\n<\/th>\n<th rowspan='2' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\nGT\/T\n<\/th>\n<th rowspan='2' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\nGT\/T\n<\/th>\n<th style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\nTeam #2\n<\/th>\n<th rowspan='2' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\nGT\/T\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\nMarkH &amp; MikeCh\n<\/td>\n<td style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\nMarty &amp; Jon\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0)'>\nT-\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n-100\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 0)'>\nT+\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128)'>\n300\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 0)'>\nGT+\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div style='position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 100%'>\n<div style='height: 1.5em; width: 33%; background-color: rgb(0, 128, 0);'><\/div>\n<div style='position: absolute; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; padding-top: .25em; width: 100%; top: 0; left: 0'>\n175\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n225\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0)'>\nT-\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(128, 0, 128)'>\n475\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 0)'>\nT+\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0)'>\nT-\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n125\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0)'>\nT-\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n370\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 0)'>\nT+\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div style='position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 100%'>\n<div style='height: 1.5em; width: 73%; background-color: rgb(0, 128, 0);'><\/div>\n<div style='position: absolute; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; padding-top: .25em; width: 100%; top: 0; left: 0'>\n330\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 0)'>\nT+\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n470\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0)'>\nT-\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div style='position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 100%'>\n<div style='height: 1.5em; width: 66%; background-color: rgb(0, 128, 0);'><\/div>\n<div style='position: absolute; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; padding-top: .25em; width: 100%; top: 0; left: 0'>\n330\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n415\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0)'>\nT-\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 0)'>\nT+\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div style='position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 100%'>\n<div style='height: 1.5em; width: 6%; background-color: rgb(0, 128, 0);'><\/div>\n<div style='position: absolute; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; padding-top: .25em; width: 100%; top: 0; left: 0'>\n485\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td align='center' style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)'>\n&nbsp;\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age of Steam Expansion &#8211; Texas, Oklahoma &amp; New Mexico Winsome&#8217;s 2008 Essen pack was shipped early to me. In it was an Age of Steam expansion about Texas and cattle. We tried it out. Of course we got a couple of the rules wrong. But that did not make this game broken. In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}