Actually, I’m not that bad at taking turns and have gotten much better at the analysis paralysis thing, but we thought it would make for a funny and topical joke. 😉

So we played very few games the previous week and we made up for that a little bit this week! We kicked off with a game of Agricola. Since our friend has now completed his collection, we’re trying out all the weird decks and extra stuff. We played with the E-deck this time and that was interesting. There are a lot of “could-be-very-powerful” cards in there, but they did feel very circumstantial and hard to actually use them right. I did have a weird game in which I kept my farm tiny (just two rooms) and although I only had two actions for most of the game, I didn’t even score last. So something went right! But… we also played with the Legen*dairy Forest-Deck and our friend just kept getting very powerful cards from there, while the other players got quite some bad stuff. It threw the balance off quite a lot, but it’s funny to spice things up once in a while. Next time, we’ll have to try the X-deck, which adds weird alien encounters whenever you visit the stone quarry.

On Friday, we had a fun game night! Originally, we were going to be with seven players, but two called in sick, which changed the range of games we could play. After dinner, we started off with the fun little dice chucker Sausage Sizzle! It’s silly, it’s cute and always handy to have since you could probably play it with anybody. After that, Paperback got the most votes!

Somehow, the game took longer than it should. The market was almost fully sold out (except the Tier 3 cards) before people started scoring enough money on the words to buy the higher-score cards. We’re not sure what happened there, but next time we’ll either add the typo cards or reduce the number of score cards to shorten the game a little (the game ends when two stacks of the score cards are emptied). However, we did have a good time and everybody wants to play it again some other time. 🙂

We ended the night with a game of Illimat. We wanted to introduce it to a friend because we thought he would appreciate the concept and aesthetic. He did! And he also won and that’s impressive for playing it for the first time.

This weekend, we finally had part two of our Magic: Lord of the Rings draft event we had last year. The stars and schedules weren’t aligned so it took a while before we could make this happen. A friend managed to buy a few more draft boosters, so we could slightly adjust our decks and we played a few games and had a nice dinner together. Good times!