Re: Invitation to new bay area board gaming - Electronic Arts

Just a reminder if anyone wants to check it out - the EA Board Game 
night is tonight (and every other Wed).  Everyone's welcome

Electronic Arts Cafe
209 Redwood Shores Parkway, 
Building 250.

Starts at 6PM.  The cafe is closed then, so bring your own food.

 

Game order?

I'm interested in picking up copies of Ponte Del Diavolo (semi-rework of
Twixt) and Quo Vadis (clever little negotiation game).

  http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/27172
  http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/122

Is anyone else up for or about to place a game order?

--
J C Lawrence                        They said, "You have a blue guitar,
---------(*)                        You do not play things as they are."
claw@...                       The man replied, "Things as they are
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/          Are changed upon the blue guitar."

 

Re: Game order?

Re: Game order?

Hey JC,

Did you place an order?  If you haven't, I would be
interested in 

Smarty Party
Ingenious: Travel Edition
Thebes

if you haven't.  If you have, that's fine too.  I'll
have someone else order stuff for me in their next
order.

Thanks!

jdl

--- J C Lawrence <claw@...> wrote:

> 
> I'm interested in picking up copies of Ponte Del
> Diavolo (semi-rework of
> Twixt) and Quo Vadis (clever little negotiation
> game).
> 
>   http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/27172
>   http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/122
> 
> Is anyone else up for or about to place a game
> order?
> 
> --
> J C Lawrence                        They said, "You
> have a blue guitar,
> ---------(*)                        You do not play
> things as they are."
> claw@...                       The man replied,
> "Things as they are
> http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/          Are changed upon
> the blue guitar."
> 

 

Re: Game order?

Session Report 07/23/07

South Bay Boardgamers Session Report July 23rd, 2007
----------------------------------------------------

********************************************************
QUOTE OF THE WEEK

CARDGAME ROADSHOW
"My hand is terrible!"
   -- Rolf
(Rolf wins the hand by a large margin)

"My hand is awful!"
   -- Rolf
(Rolf wins the hand by a large margin)

"Hey, my hand is pretty good this time."
   -- Rolf
********************************************************

   John N., Nick, Maria, Selvin*                      (Ursuppe)
      Winner: Maria

   Dave E., Devin, Chris B., Scott, David W.          (Age of Empires 3)
      Winner: Scott

   Eugene, Bruce*, Dan*, Rolf*                        (Too Many Cooks)
      Winner: Rolf

   Eugene, Bruce, Dan, Rolf*, Andrea, Marcus          (Tichu)
      Winners: Dan, Andrea, Marcus

   Scott, Nick*, Maria*, Selvin*                      (Hey! That's My Fish!)
      Winner: Selvin

   JC, Chip, Spencer, Janice*                         (Imperial)
      Winner: JC

   JC, Selvin*, Chip*, Janice*, Spencer*              (Bongo)
      Winner: Selvin

   Jeremiah, Clark, Karen, Charles*, Dave R.*         (Amun Re)
      Winner: Clark             Best newbie: Charles

   Jeremiah, Clark, Karen, Charles, Dave R.*          (Wizard)
      Winner: Clark             
      Winner: Karen

   Mike, Steve                                        (Robin Hood)
      Winner: Steve

   Ryan, Greg, Julie, Jesse*, Craig*                  (Shogun)
      Winner: Julie

   * = first-time player of this game

A quiet week, with not too many game reports.  Dave R. and Julie both
reappeared after a significant absence; welcome back!

--- Too Many Cooks ---

Rolf managed to cook two stellar soups in the first two days, despite
holding "terrible cards" and held on to win even when his cards "got
better".  Not bad for a first-time cook...

--- Tichu ---

For the first time, we played the 6-player version, with two teams of 3.
In this variant, you only pass 1 card to each of your teammates, and
going out 1-2-3 gives your side 300 points.  The 5th player loses his
tricks to the 1st player, and the last player loses his tricks and remaining 
cards to the opponents.

Dan, Andrea, and Marcus jumped out to an early lead, helped when I
failed in two Tichus.  I then called a Grand Tichu and made it to make
up for my previous lapses.  However, then the other team went out 1-2-3
to get a triple win and surge past the 500 mark, which we had earlier
decided as the victory condition.  

--
Eugene Hung     eyhung@...    http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/eyhung
"A house without books is like a room without windows."
		- Horace Mann

 

Group game order

I will be placing a group games order in the next couple days.  I'll
most likely be ordering from Boulder (they have more of what the current
people in the order want), but Boards&Bits and ThoughtHammer are also in
the running if that makes a difference.

If you're interesting in joining in please send me an email.  I'd like
ot get the order placed on Friday.

--
J C Lawrence                        They said, "You have a blue guitar,
---------(*)                        You do not play things as they are."
claw@...                       The man replied, "Things as they are
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/          Are changed upon the blue guitar."

 

Session Report 08/06/07

I didn't attend the session of 7/30, so there will be no session
report for that week.  In the meantime ...

South Bay Boardgamers Session Report August 6th, 2007
-----------------------------------------------------

PARTY GAME THEME NIGHT

************************************************************************
QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Q.E.D.
"Dangerous."
   -- Greg (reading an Apples to Apples category card)
"Where's that Woman card when you need it?"
   -- Ken 
"I'm gonna hurt you!"
   -- Shelli
"Thus proving his point."
   -- Greg
************************************************************************

   
   Eugene, Tom E., Kristina, Steve, Nick, Maria,      (Werewolf)
   Thomas, Selvin, Eron, Ammen-Ra, Chris L., Greg,
   Cheryl, Angie, Jeremy, Chip, Janice, Spencer, 
   Cameron, Cassi
      Winners: Eugene, Chris L., Greg, Steve, Thomas, 
               Kristina, Jeremy

   Jesse/Dave W., Ken/Francisco, Toni/Alan,           (Wits & Wagers)
   Amir/Craig, Rolf/Dave R. 
      Winners: Rolf and Dave R.

   Jesse/Dave W., Ken/Francisco, Toni/Alan,           (Chronology)
   Rolf/Dave R., Craig/Cheryl
      Winners: Rolf and Dave R.

   Cheryl, Angie, Maria, Nick, Steve, Kristina        (Sequence)
      Winners: Cheryl, Angie, Maria
      Winners: Cheryl, Angie, Maria

   Eric, Shelli, Mika, Aya                            (Cloud 9)
      Winner: Mika

   Eric, Shelli, Mika, Aya, Greg Suhr                 (Montgolfier)
      Winner: Shelli
      Winner: Eric

   Bruce, John N., Larry                              (Perquacky)
      Winner: Larry

   Eric, Ken, Kendra, Dave R.                         (Mykerinos)
      Winner: Kendra

   Ted, Karen, Julien, Scott, Charles                 (Scattergories)
      Winner: Ted

   Ted, Karen, Julien, Scott, Charles, Mike R.        (Scattergories)
      Winner: Karen

   Ted, Karen, Julien, Scott, Charles, Mike R.        (Snorta)
      Winner: Karen

   Eugene, Eron, Alan, Greg, Shelli, Chip, Cameron,   (Chronology)
   Tom E.
      Winner: Shelli
      Winner: Cameron

   Cheryl, Angie, Nick, Maria, John B., Francisco,    (Apples to Apples)
   Selvin
      Winners: Angie and Selvin

   Cameron, Eugene, Eron, Alan, Greg, Shelli, Chip,   (Apples to Apples)
   Spencer, Tom E. 
      Winner: Shelli

   Eugene, Greg, Julie, Selvin, Eron, Ken, Dave R.    (Apples to Apples)
      Winner: Eugene

   Cameron, Janice, Chip, Spencer, Alan, Tom E.,      (Apples to Apples)
   Shelli
      Winner: Alan

   Ted, Mike R., Karen, Charles                       (Tichu)
      Winner: Ted and Mike R.
      Winner: Ted and Mike R.

   Bruce, John N., Larry, Bridgit                     (Tichu)
      Winners: Bruce and John N.

   Bruce, Bridgit, Marcus/Andrea, John N.             (Tichu)
      Winners: Bruce and Bridgit

   Devin                                              (Age of Steam: PR)
      Winner: none

   Dirk, John B., Marcus, Animesh, Selvin, Ammen-Ra   (Fist of Dragonstones)
      Winner: Marcus

   Dirk, Steve, Kristina                              (Buffy)
      Winners: Steve and Kristina

   Randy, Janice, Spencer, Jeremy, Cassi              (Wizard)
      Winner: Jeremy

   Ted, Mike R., Charles, Karen, Devin                (Wizard)
      Winner: Mike R.

   Ted, Devin, Karen                                  (Wizard)
      Winner: Karen

   Ted, Devin, Karen, Clark, Jeremiah                 (Wizard)
      Winner: forgotten

   Toni, Francisco, Rolf, Alan                        (Ubongo)
      Winner: Toni

   JC, William, Kendra                                (Die Dolmengotter)
      Winner: Kendra

   JC, William, Dave W., Craig, Eddie                 (La Citta)
      Winner: JC

   Clark, Julien, Amir, Scott                         (Goa)
      Winner: Clark

   Jeremiah, Clark, Julien, Amir, Scott               (Notre Dame)
      Winner: Clark

   Mika, Aya, Greg Suhr                               (Vegas Showdown)
      Winner: Greg Suhr

   Greg, Selvin, Eron                                 (End of the Triumvirate)
      Winner: Eron

(due to it being party-game night, newbie designations are dropped)

Despite the absence of a few regulars, there was a record turnout
tonight, both in first-time attendees (6), long-absent returnees (4),
and number of gamers (FIFTY-SEVEN, plus baby Claudia).  In between,
we had a huge birthday cake (thanks to Bridgit) and a group photo 
(thanks to Jeremiah for taking it!)  Thanks to everyone for coming out!

New to the group were:
  - Ammen-Ra, Randy's friend
  - Kristina, Steve's sister
  - Michael Roberts, in town for 2 weeks for a boardgaming convention
  - Shelli, who works at PARC and found our group online
  - Kendra, Eric's friend
  - Greg Suhr, Aya's boyfriend

Previosly frequent gamers returning after a long absence were:
  - Eron, who co-founded this group along with me and Randy
  - Cassi, Randy's daughter who had recently moved to college
  - Aya, who acquired a boyfriend 
  - Dirk, who has been busy with life!

The theme of the night was PARTY GAMES, and plenty of people
participated!  For the first time, we played party classics such as 
Scattergories, Apples to Apples, and Chronology.  But, what would a
party be without...

--- Werewolf ---

GOOD
----
Seer (each night, can determine werewolf status of one player) : Nick
Magician (may heal one victim and poison one player once per game) : Tom
Hunter (may retaliate upon death) : Ammen-Ra
Bodyguard (may protect a different player from death each turn) : Chip
Masons (know that each other is a villager) : Janice and Cameron

NEUTRAL
-------
Cobbler (wins only if killed) : Kristina
Dwarf (wins when his enemy is killed before him) : Jeremy
Dwarf Enemy: Selvin
Cursed (becomes werewolf when eaten): Cheryl

EVIL
----
Werewolves: Eugene, Greg, Chris, Steve
Sorcerer (each night, can determine seer status of one player) : Thomas

In the first day, everyone made their introduction as "I'm a
villager" so Cheryl decided to say "I'm a werewolf!".  She was quickly
lynched by the suspicious villagers, and her curse failed to activate.
The werewolves then ate Selvin, greatly pleasing Dwarf Jeremy, who had
picked Selvin as his mortal enemy.  Jeremy was now assured of victory no
matter what happened.

On the second day, Nick the Seer began strategizing loudly, as to do
otherwise would draw untold suspicion upon him given his past history.
After the crowd strung up Ammen-Ra, the wolves tried to feast on Nick,
but Magician Tom used his power over death to save him.  

Things got better for the villagers when Dr. Remus Lupin (Steve) was
nominated by Nick (who had divined Steve's wolfish nature at night) and
seconded enthusiastically by Angie.  The village lynched Lupin and he
amazingly turned out to be a werewolf!  The wolves then ate Angie,
thinking that she was the Seer.

More accusations were made, including Eron on me, who claimed I had
voted to lynch several of the previous innocents.  I stoutly denied the
accusations by pointing out that Eron had misremembered, supported by
both Tom, Thomas, and Nick, who all remembered that I had not voted to
lynch a single player yet.  Someone then nominated Eron and we lynched
him.  The wolves then ate Seer Nick, while Magician Tom poisoned
Bodyguard Chip.  

After the next day, when Maria was eaten, Cameron accused me of being a
werewolf, seconded by Janice.  Their rationale was that all the
experienced players except me and Greg seemed to be dying off, so we
ought to be werewolves.  (This was true.)  But the group barely voted to
save me after I explained my actions.  We lynched the lynch-happy Cassi
instead, but she proved to be yet another villager.  The wolves then ate
Cameron, raising even more suspicions that I might be a werewolf.  I
pointed out how silly it would be for me as werewolf to eat Cameron
after Cameron had been so vocal in pointing me out.  Janice still
nominated me anyway, and I quickly nominated Kristina for being too
quiet, seconded by Tom.  Kristina gave no defense, so we all voted to
kill her.  Kristina surprisingly voted against herself, showing that she
was the Cobbler.  The wolves then ate Spencer, leaving just 7 players:
Janice and Tom (good) Jeremy (apathetic) Chris, Greg, Eugene (wolves)
and Thomas (on the wolf side).  Not surprisingly, with a significant
majority not interested in lynching anyone, the village was unable to
come to an agreement on who to lynch, so the wolves, Thomas (Sorcerer), 
Jeremy (Dwarf), and Kristina (Cobbler) won!

--- Age of Steam: Puerto Rico ---

In a group first, the first solitaire game was played, by Devin, on
Ted's recently designed solitaire map for Age of Steam.  Unfortunately
for Devin, he also participated in another group first: losing (solo) 
to a non-human opponent.  That Devin sure knows how to party...

--- Apples to Apples ---

Highlights included :

  Category: Secretive
  Winning card: blank

  Category: blank
  Winning card: blank

--- Buffy the Vampire Slayer ---

Dirk writes:

  In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The good players got off to an early lead
  by an all-out assault on Faith, who was vainly searching for the
  artifact the Mayor needed.  They managed to kill her before she could
  locate the artifact, and without taking any harm themselves.  Willow
  also immediately found the spell that the good side needed in order to
  destroy the artifact when they located it.  Things were looking very bad
  for Bad.  However, as often happens in this game, things can turn around
  very quickly: the Mayor's forces attacked by surprise, and one of his
  minions carrying another powerful artifact managed to bite Buffy and
  turn her into a vampire herself, thus restoring a slayer to the evil
  side.  That minion and Buffy quickly caught Xander and slew him, leaving
  only two remaining good characters.  Things were looking very bad for
  Good.  However, since Willow still had the necessary spell, and boots of
  running to evade the evil minions, she was able to avoid Xander's fate
  until Oz located the dreaded Box of Garvok that the Mayor desperately
  needed.  Now Willow and Oz merely needed to meet up and cast the spell.
  The Mayor's only hope was to block them, and he would have, but sunrise
  was minutes away and all of his minions (including Buffy) headed for
  shelter until it passed.  Peering from doorways, they watched helplessly
  as Oz passed Willow the box.  There was a chance, however slim, that
  touching the box could have killed Willow, but it didn't.  And there was
  a chance, however slim, that the spell would fail, but it didn't.  The
  Mayor screamed in anguish, as his planned ascension to demon form
  became impossible. So Xander was dead, and Buffy was Undead,
  but Good had triumphed once again.

--- Fist of Dragonstones ---

Marcus writes:

  John B. and Dirk quickly became enemies, tying the initial bid for the
  Gnome (2 real gold, 2 silver).  Dirk attempted a diplomatic solution,
  which John flatly refused, and they both then proceeded to each bet all
  their silver for the tie-break, in essence losing about half their
  bidding for the round, and all their silver for the game, with neither
  of them actually winning the card.  

  After that, I immediately became a target, given my random 4 starting
  stones included 3 yellow and one red, putting me one short of being able
  of using the sorcerer and getting 2 out of the 3 points necessary to
  win.  As a result, Selvin quickly purchased the thief and stole one of
  my yellows for the betterment of the rest of the players.  The Fairy
  (one permanent fairy gold) was also in the first round, and Ra and I
  saved up our bidding for that.  I bid 8/9 fairy gold, and Rah bid 11 (9
  fairy gold and 2 real gold), effectively eliminating me from getting
  anything for the first round.  

  In the next round, Selvin apparently enjoyed using the Witch's curse
  token to hold over every auction, but saving it for the last round which
  happened to be the two headed dragon (2 dragon stones), again
  eliminating me from any progress.  In another round, Ra won the bid for
  the Rainbow Dragon, which let him choose a color and randomly choose
  from the bag.  If the stone was not of that color he chose, he gets to
  keep all stones collected if he stops.  If he continues, and eventually
  draws the color he initially chose, all stones would be lost.  Given
  almost all the yellow stones were out in players collections, he chose
  that color, and was able to get 3 stones for a relatively small bid
  amount of 4-5 fairy gold.  

  For the next few rounds, everyone was able to get at least one point,
  and collect a few stones, except for me, who still had 0 points and
  fewer dragon stones than I started with.  Selvin, through bidding on
  single dragon stone auctions for cheap (1-2 fairy gold), progressed up
  to 2 points, and had 2 out of 3 dragon stones to get the last point,
  so everyone targetted him.  During the last round, I was able to save up
  4 yellow and 2 red stones.  John B. won the curse token, and seemed
  eager to use it against Selvin, who was in the lead with 2 points and 2
  stones.  After winning the Sorcerer's Apprentice card relatively cheaply
  (for 2 fairy gold), since the competition was low for that auction, I
  only needed the Sorcerer to win, but Selvin, and others believed John
  would curse the Sorcerer card (4 stones of 1 color for 2 points).
  However, during the Ghost card auction (choose any previous card played
  that round and claim that reward), I baited John, saying there's no way
  he'd use the curse for the Ghost, which seemed to help, and he used the
  curse token.  Since no one had enough fairy gold to block me from the
  upcoming Sorcerer auction, I took that auction, and ended up winning the
  game.

--
Eugene Hung     eyhung@...    http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/eyhung
Nixon's Rule:
  If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

 

LFG :)

Hello all,

I am looking for a regular gaming group in the area (I live and work
in Santa Clara) and your group looks right up my alley!

Short notice, but I am going to try to make it tomorrow (today?) after
work. I am currently working for Namco in Santa Clara, only a few
miles from the Yahoo Cafeteria.

Here is my BGG profile: http://boardgamegeek.com/user/mdanuser

Let me know if I should bring any of my games! I am most easily
contacted at mjdanuser at gmail dot com.

Thanks!

 

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