{"id":333,"date":"2005-12-30T23:09:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T23:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=333"},"modified":"2005-12-30T23:09:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T23:09:35","slug":"lone_star_game_day_12302005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Game Day 12\/30\/2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-12302005.jpg\" alt=\"Game #1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/game\/9217\">St. Petersburg<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday was the first day of what I hope to be the annual Lone Star Game Fest.  Marty and I travelled down from Austin at 9am and we arrived at 12pm.  After settling in, we jumped right into gaming starting with St. Petersburg.  This is a lightweight and somewhat meaty game that hasn&#8217;t been spoiled for me by the computer version.  As long as I don&#8217;t play with someone who has played the computer version many times and knows exactly the winning strategy, I enjoy this game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis game came down to Aristocrates.  And, unfortunately, I had bad luck in trying to get unqiue Aristocrats.  Marty had the better luck in this so was able to win the game.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-12302005(001).jpg\" alt=\"Game #2\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/game\/12681\">Neuland<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAh&#8230; another playing for me of this game.  And after playing it, I still want to play it again.  At least until I win it.  After that, I don&#8217;t know.  It is hard for a game to rise above the many others in terms of replayability.  And I have questions if this game can do it.  It does have some interesting game mechanics.  But it does lack in good artwork.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-12302005(002).jpg\" alt=\"Game #3\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/game\/18602\">Caylus<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother playing of Caylus and my oppinion of it remains unchanged.  Although I still haven&#8217;t changed my strategy at all.  So perphaps that is a bad thing?  Marty went for the blue victory building and I went for the victory favors.  My fatal mistake was not being able to place a piece first on the last round of the game.  That cost me winning the favor of the king which cost me five points.  Coincidently enough, I lost the game by five points. \ud83d\ude09\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-12302005(003).jpg\" alt=\"Game #4\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/game\/19184\">Lexio<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother playing of Lexio.  And this time, the tiles hated me.  Let me rephrase this: they absolutely hated me.  \ud83d\ude09  I payed out everyone on every hand.  Unsuprisingly enough, I ended up in last place.  Still a good game for me.  Although I think that we should play more hands than just five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg Today was the first day of what I hope to be the annual Lone Star Game Fest. Marty and I travelled down from Austin at 9am and we arrived at 12pm. After settling in, we jumped right into gaming starting with St. Petersburg. 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