Tuesday Night Games, Sept. 24, 2002

Karl, Brian, Aaron, and David's good hand play Space Pigs. I'm guessing it's kind of silly.

Meanwhile, Matt, Paul, Greg, Mark, Bill (not pictured), and I went upstairs for Barbarossa. (David got this by mistake when he ordered World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin, but I was glad because I'd been wanting to try it out.) It's kind of silly also, but I think it's more interesting than just your average Pictionary-with-clay party game. It is by Klaus "Catan" Teuber, after all!

What are these sculptures? (answers)

I taught Brian and Paul to play Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation. Somehow, the dark side won both times!

As always, there was a Tichu game going on. Tonight's addicts were Aaron, Melissa, Karl, and Bill M.

We had started the night off with Hang In There, but I had forgotten to take any action shots. This is an aerial view of the jungle, as well as the remains of the Pigs in Space counter sheet and Greg's birthday cake (it was also Bill's birthday a few days before).

A side view. The leaf-shaped levers raise and lower the side trees.

A view with the pieces in play. The trees all slowly rotate, and by lifting and lowering the side trees you have to manipulate your pieces onto the beach at the end of the jungle, starting from the other end. You can try to knock the opponent's pieces off when they rotate over your trees, but the tree rotation periodically changes direction so you sometimes have a chance to get a piece all the way through the jungle without being exposed to your opponent's trees.

Greg, Bill, and Matt's arm take some post-mortem practice shots on a Grey Owl Crokinole board.

Bill, Matt, Mark, Greg and I finished off the night with a classic, Members Only, as Paul spectates. Bill got off to an early lead; I almost caught up, but in the end Bill beat me by two points.