Light night. Gili is planning for her daughter's bat mitzvah.
Dominion/Intrigue/Seaside
Jon 48, Nadine 44Nadine may actually have had 45; she forgot to count her cards for Gardens.
Kingdoms: Village, Woodcutter, Feast, Gardens, Council Room, Secret Chamber, Scout, Trading Post, Duke, Ghost Ship
Two VP cards makes Scout an interesting buy. One Trading Post, one Council Room, one Woodcutter, two Villages, and Feasts completed my deck. Nadine doesn't play trashing cards, so she skipped the Trading Post in favor of more Council Rooms; she also didn't get Scouts. I'm surprised she did as well as she did.
Endeavor
Nadine 53, Miriam 49, Jon 47, Abraham 43First plays for Miriam and Abraham. Nadine and I had played this before and had not been impressed; not bad, but not quite gelled, we thought. After this play, we both felt a but better about it, but still think there are too many positive and negative ideas to juggle on each turn, for not enough reward. I would compare it unfavorably to Oltre Mare, which has the same juggling idea with less variables.
Abraham started out strong, but lost tempo mid-game. I started off weak without the brick building, since bricks were in short supply and it then took me some time to be able to afford a building of level 3. Nadine was actually the only one to buy a level 5 building, though Abraham also got to that level at one point, while Miriam reached it on the last round (which gave her points, at least).
I sat in front of Miriam, and consequently she felt that I was purposely acting to thwart her the whole game, to the point that she actually got frustrated. On her last play she deliberately thwarted me to prevent me from getting three points while getting two for herself. It took some time to convince her that, in fact, she had a better play elsewhere that netted her 5 or 6 additional points, and I could get 2 points elsewhere, so I would only end up losing 1, anyway. Reluctantly, she changed her play, and ended up beating me with those few points. I think that ameliorated her.
Meanwhile, I sat behind Abraham and felt that he was thwarting me the whole game, but I took it in stride.
Yinsh
Abraham+, MiriamI reminded Abraham how to play, and Miriam tried it for the first time. However, she doesn't really like abstracts, so I guess she won't play it again. Abraham removed two disks, and then Miriam took off two. The last one went back and forth until Abraham found a subtle forking play.
Tichu
Jon/Tal 455, Abraham/Miriam 145We played four hands. In the second one, Miriam and I both called Tichu, when Tal was planning on calling it originally. I managed to go out first with the Dog, and then Tal went out. The score was 370 to -70. On the last round, Abraham bid and made Tichu, while Miriam struggled not to go out first. Tal was able to go out after her, and then I went out. Miriam's last cards were a pair of 5s.
1 comment:
Endeavor is a game where you need to know what's going on in advance, from what the various buildings can do to the various "colony" cards. It's a surprisingly deep game with zero luck element (other than the initial set-up, which affects everyone) and a lot of things you can do to thwart your opponents (such as burning a Europe/Med colony card from your display back to the pile just before someone outlaws slavery, for instance). Personally, I'm finding I like the game more every time I play it because I'm learning the various elements. If you want a game that you've got figured out after one or two plays, Endeavor isn't it.
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