I'm Jon and Saarya is my son. Nadine, Adam, and Binyamin are group regulars. T"S and Z"Y are Binyamin's kids. David is a group regular. Avi is David's kid. Yaron has been playing games in other parts of Israel for many years, but rarely gets out to my group. Maayan and Maya were his guests. Yedidya and Yitzchak are Yardena's kids. Jonathan is a new group regular. Roie and Omri saw the ad on Tapuz. Rachel A is my wife. Yosef saw the ad on Janglo or my blog, I think. Dylan is a group regular, Ben is my brother and a group regular, Gili is a group regular. Dvir, Shimon, and Ari saw the ad on Tapuz. David B is my other brother and Pini and Yosef B are his kids. Richard, Vera saw the ad on Janglo, and Raphaela is their daughter.
32 people is record attendance. In fact, if we get this many or more in the future, we need a bigger place.
Amun-Re
Binyamin 51, Roie 42, Ben 38, Omri 31, Zvi Yehuda 531Ben doesn't get to play this game in his community because his gamers object to the other deities and sacrifice.
Nadine 54, David B 39, Yosef 38, Ben 34
This was first game for David and Yosef. David thought it was a good game but the -3 card (stealing 3 gold) wasn't strong enough to overcome the loss of a free item.
Anagrams
Jon, YardenaI went easy on Yardena at the start of this game under the assumption that I would be much better than she was, since she had Scrabble experience but not Anagrams experience. After a few words, however, it turned out that she was excellent. After that I played as well as I could and we both ended up with about the same number of words.
Bridge
Nadine, Ben, Binyamin, Zvi YehudaThey played a few hands toward the end of the day.
Cities and Knights of Catan
Yitzchak, YosefPlayed a two-player game to learn the rules, I believe.
Yosef 13, Jon, Jonathan
I started off pretty well, but Yosef relentlessly hit me during the game and rose over my back. He got a quick early metropolis, and another one soon thereafter. He won the game with Longest Road.
Colosseum
Zvi Yehuda 83, Gili 80, Tikva Shira 65This is a big sprawling game with busy graphics. I played it once and thought it was a typical Euro.
Cosmic Encounter
Binyamin, Pini, Yosef, Zvi YehudaI think I have the wrong people written here, except I know that Binyamin got bored by the game since he didn't think the aliens were interesting enough (he had Void/Zombie).
Go
Adam+, JonAdam slaughtered me by capturing a large central area on an 11x11 board. I still love the game, but I really really suck at it. I started with two stones.
Jon+, Yardena
I taught Yardena how to play on a 9x9 board. Even by the end of the game, she wasn't quite sure she had grasped the rules of capturing groups. She started with a two stone advantage.
Imperial
Binyamin brought this and taught it to several groups of people, but no one took him up on the offer to actually play it.Magic: the Gathering
Jon++, David++David and I did our usual Rochester draft. Both of us ended with serious difficulties in cutting down colors for our deck. I had more Red, but I settled on Blue as my third color. There was no way to cut it down to two colors. I did BGU while David did BRU.
I lost the first game. The second game, I was distracted by some other events around me and forgot to say I was casting a blocker from my hand, so I lost, but David said I should have won (I recorded it as his win). In the third game my deck worked and his didn't. In the fourth, we were well on a repeat of the third so he resigned.
David+, Pini
Pini used my deck to play David while I was eating dinner and lost.
Pirate's Cove
Tikva Shira, Zvi YehudaI saw them playing this two player. Binyamin heard the rules and wasn't interested because of the excessive dice rolling. I sympathize, but I like the game anyway, for some reason.
Power Grid
Dylan+, Dvir, Shimon, AriI taught the latter three this game and then stepped out for Dylan to play. I forgot that Dylan's grasp of the rules wasn't perfect. As a result, they forgot that you couldn't have more than three power plants. I'm sure they got some of the power plant rotation rules wrong, too. Dylan won on the tie breaker.
Puerto Rico
Rachel+, Roie, OmriOmri and Roie brought two games, PR and Princes of Florence, both of which I have. They sat down to play with Rachel. I was thinking of warning them that they don't know what they're up against, as she is a killer.
She ended up winning, but not as badly as I won against inexperienced players the day before at the Beit Shemesh club - something like a 10 point spread. She said it was fun, especially when she had no idea what her opponents were going to do, unlike when she played with us regulars.
Race for the Galaxy
Yaron, Maayan, Maya, JonathanThis was the first time for all of them (2nd for Jonathan?). It took them quite some time, as first game are want to do.
David B 29, Pini 25, Yosef B 15
I taught all of them how to play and then left them to it. As a result, they were often confused. David realized that their was a lot to the game, but the other two were somewhat frustrated. They all would have enjoyed it more if I had played with them as well; I'm sorry I didn't.
Nadine 42, David 32, Jon 29
We three wanted to play this at the end of the evening. Nadine won using her usual brown world strategy. I started with the military world, which I think is a poor strategy in comparison.
David 64, Jon 45, Nadine 41
I tried a brown world strategy, but David took it from me and did it better. He also had yellow worlds going. it was obvious a third of the way into the game that he was going to slaughter us. Which began to make me resent the game. Once I was losing and my initial worlds turned out to have been the wrong ones, there was no hope of catching up and a whole game to know that.
RftG is therefor a fascinating puzzle, but somewhat frustrating as a game.
R-Eco
David 17, Jon 3, Nadine 2, Avi 0, Adam 0My only points were from not dumping. David pulled the 4 and 5 of red in his last two moves.
Avi 16, Nadine 8, Yardena 6, David 5
Yardena liked the game because the rule set was simple and she didn't have to think too much (she thinks a lot during work, generally).
David B, Pini, Yosef B
I taught them this and they all liked it for what it was.
Yosef, Gili, Binyamin
Played near the end of the day.
Robo Rally
Jon+, Nadine, David, Avi, AdamThis was our opening game and it was fun. We played on one board with two flags at opposite corners. David, Nadine, and I were all close, with Adam right behind. This despite my opening turn as nothing but left and right turns. As usual, chance played heavily in who was able to get the second flag in the final stretch.
Yaron, Maayan, Maya, Dylan, Jonathan
I taught them all how to play, and warned them that a typical game, even on a short board with one flag, takes a good hour and a half. Dylan then won on his second play.
Santiago
Maayan+, Yaron, Maya, JonathanThis was another new game for all the players.
Settlers of Catan
Roie, Omri, Yosef, Yedidya/YitzchakY and Y really wanted to play but there wasn't enough room so they shared a position.
Shadows Over Camelot
Gili, Tikva Shira, Saarya, Richard, Vera, Raphaela, JonathanI taught some, and some had played once or twice. Richard, Vera, and Raphaela came in just as we were about to start and I included them. This was their first game, and they didn't make it through to the end, even though Vera told me that it was much better than Monopoly. Still, it's a fairly complicated game for your first game, though the mechanics themselves are pretty easy.
When they left, three players finished the game three player, each with two roles. Gili inherited the traitor (or started as the traitor). he game ended with seven white swords, but then two flipped because the traitor was still in the game, so the company lost (and Gili won).
Winner's Circle
Binyamin, Zvi Yehuda, Tikva ShiraThe opening game for them.
Year of the Dragon
Nadine 104, David 84, Gili 77, Tikva Shira 58David and Nadine had both played Year of the Dragon once, and David had won that time. Tikva Shira knew the basics, and it was Gili's first time. This game is played in preference to Notre Dame, being considered nearly the same game but better (though ND is a fine game).
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