I felt the need to support the cafe before jumping into the games. Pretzel and cheese: two great tastes that go great together (sort of).
For SSG's 3rd anniversary, I took my first trip down to the Walpole Barnes & Noble cafe.
I felt the need to support the cafe before jumping into the games.
Pretzel and cheese: two great tastes that go great together (sort of).
Meanwhile, those who had actually gotten there on time were embroiled
in a game of
Trans America.
After Transamerica finished, we split into two groups. This was the
one I was not in, so I never got to know any of their names (except I
know Dave B. on the right). They started off with
Adel Verpflichtet,
with different artwork from the version I was used to. As Andy Latto
is fond of pointing out, the best English translation for the German
phrase "Adel Verpflichtet" is "noblesse oblige", which of course isn't
English either.
Meanwhile, my group played
Castle,
which I foolishly forgot to take a picture of. We then played
6 Nimmt!.
Pictured are David and Tom; Lucia's hand is on the left, and Ben's is
on the right. David won, but only because on the last hand Ben fell
into my consecutive-numbers trap twice in a row and took two big
piles. I think Ben still finished ahead of me in second place.
We then played a blurry game of
Bluff.
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on! My upturned cup shows that I was the
first to be eliminated.
Meanwhile, the other group was busy with
Wizard.
I'm used to scoring 1 point per trick, not 10, so when they said that
someone had 80 points after the fourth round I was momentarily shocked.
I tried to get a picture of the final Bluff showdown, but they were
too quick to clean up. I think Tom won with 4 dice remaining.
A close-up of the artwork in this wild Wizard deck. I'm used to the
plain old regular-deck-plus-Wizards-and-Jesters, but maybe this
version adds to the theme or something. I guess you just have to
remember what German words N and Z stand for.