{"id":830,"date":"2007-05-24T23:15:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T23:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=830"},"modified":"2007-05-24T23:15:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T23:15:49","slug":"game_day_05242007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Game Day 05\/24\/2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_3792.jpg\" alt=\"Game #1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/game\/29371\">Mini Bridge<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile we were waiting for everyone to show up, Adam dealt out a hand of mini bridge.  And I was the lucky person with 12 points.  Sadly, I didn&#8217;t turn on the big halogen light and get the aperture up to f\/8.0 so that you can see my dummy&#8217;s support.  But it wasn&#8217;t much:  two spades and no Aces.  So, I bid the minimum spade bid and ran trump when the second heart was led.  Adam commented that I should have promoted my club King since I had the Queen in the dummy.  Sigh.  I should have.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_3796.jpg\" alt=\"Game #2\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/game\/23053\">Guatemala Cafe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJohn brought out a new game by Eggert Spiele.  This game has a theme, but it plays dry and turns into an abstract game.  My mistake was teaming with Jon on my left.  Jon had created a black plantation on his first turn.  And I did as well on my first turn.  Then, he had placed black ships in the corresponding port to increase the multiplier.  Next he had tried to score black a couple of times but other players blocked it.  However, it can only be blocked so many times.  So I thought that I was finally going to score.  Adam never gave me a chance to score myself.  I could only set up Jon to score it.  But I knew that Jon was not going to score it again in the game.  Even though it was his highest scoring opportunity with 16 points.  I even left black people on the board so he could catch up to my potential score which had not changed the entire game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSigh.  You can&#8217;t do all of the work alone in this game.  You need to team up with others.  But when that person actively denies their own scoring, you are hosed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/game\/215\">Tichu<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJon had the mojo tonight for stopping non-desperation GrandTichu calls.  On the first stoppage, Adam was left with three Aces and a Phoenix.  Apparently, he should have played pair of aces, pair of aces, dog instead of dog.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_3798.jpg\" alt=\"Game #4\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/game\/25417\">Battlelore<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother game of Battlelore while we waited for Rehana to show up and another game of how sucky can the dice roll for me.  Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mini Bridge While we were waiting for everyone to show up, Adam dealt out a hand of mini bridge. And I was the lucky person with 12 points. Sadly, I didn&#8217;t turn on the big halogen light and get the aperture up to f\/8.0 so that you can see my dummy&#8217;s support. But it wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","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\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}