Tag: games

The group completed quests 12 and 13 of our Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall story. Both completed victoriously. Quest 13 was clearly set up as a major battle, but with fortune on our side and complementary decks we were able to deal out 80 damage across the enemy team with just 3 attacks and then mop up the remnants from there.

At a board game meetup I jumped into the tail end of the silly game Hot Streak. The players are compulsive gamblers betting on the outcome of a race of sports team mascots as well as various propositional bets along the way. I lost.

After Hot Streak, we played a game of 7 Wonders. I lost that too.

And closing out that night was a game of the rather odd Frenemy Pastry Party. In this game the only way to earn points is to either bake a cake or help someone else bake a cake. Baking a cake alone is suboptimal as it uses up your own ingredients. Contribute ingredients to someone else’s cake earns you points, but they will earn more points for the cake than you will for the ingredients. So the goal is to try to get all the other players to evenly contribute to your own cakes so the points for ingredients are diffused across the other players and cake points are concentrated on yourself. But once every figures this out cooperation is likely to deteriorate. I lost by a point once another player realized what I was doing and rallied the rest of the table to prevent me from winning.

My campaign group continued our Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall adventure with quests 21, 20, and 11. Victory on all three. Quests 21 and 20 were side jobs which earned us some money and weapons. 11 was a story-line quest. Our group has some good synergies set up and the battles were fun, but not trivial.

Played a game of Hardback with a friend. Close all the way and it came down the final hand of cards. I was leading and pushed my points over the end-of-game threshold giving my friend one last turn. He put together a great word and overtook my score by a few points.

Won a game of 7 Wonders at a dinner-and-games get together.

Completed quests 9 and 10 of Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall with my campaign group. We were victorious on quest 9, but on quest 10 a giant moth creature got the drop on us and wiped out half the group’s health on the first blow. From there it was an agonizing struggle to stay on our feet until, ultimately, the moth creature pummeled my character into the ground ending our suffering in defeat.

Played a round each of Azul and Hardback at the board-game meetup. I lost Azul pretty badly, but I won Hardback.

Played Wondrous Creatures at another board-game meetup. This one was new to me. It’s a bit like Everdell, but more complicated. I focused too much on engine building and lost badly. But, in my defense, the person I was playing with had recently been obsessed with the game and had played it 5+ times in the prior 6 days. And he didn’t exceed my score by more than 50%. Definitely a game that one needs to play several times to get a feel for the pacing and strategic options.

Completed Quest 8 of Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall with my group. Another victory for the team.

While Mom & Dad were in town we played a few games

We played half of a game of Keep the Heroes Out with Corinne. We were victorious.

Played Harmonies, a game of somewhat-abstracted habitat creation. Given to us by friends for Christmas this was the first time we managed to get it to the table. I’d played once at the board-game meetup in the past. For practice, I read the rules in French and managed to figure it out correctly. I believe Mom won.

A quick game of Cat Fluxx. I won.

Followed by a quick game of L’Oaf, which I also won by virtue of being the only baker not fired.

Completed Quests 5, 6, & 7 of Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall. Our team remains undefeated.

At the only meetup I made it to we played a game of Northern Pacific. It’s a railroad-building game in which players bet on which cities the railroad will connect through and then try to steer the construction through the cities you bet on. It has some interesting game-theory aspects to it. It’s played in 3 rounds and each round was very different as players adapted their strategies. I won out in the end.