While we waited for the final people to arrived, we started a game of Hornochsen!. I started with a totally green hand, but other players had plenty of red cards which gradually came out during the game. Luke (who hasn't played for awhile) tried the get out early strategy, while most of the rest of us tried the waiting game. Anne and I ended up with 2 multipliers each but Anne made much better use of it.
Anne 48 Sharon 18 Ian 12 John R 9 Luke -3Patrician
Ceedee arrived bringing a German couple who were surprised to see so many German games that they hadn't seen before. John taught everyone this game of tower building. He must have taught well as he didn't do as well as he normally does.
Liz 43 Tobes 38 John B 33 Ceedee 27No Thanks!
While the final towers were being completed at the other end of the table, we played a quick game of passing unwanted presents (cards) around the table. People quickly caught onto the idea of bleeding coins from other people. Remember low score is good.
Sharon 16 John R 24 Ian 27 Anne 33 Luke 48After lots of games were suggested we settled on a couple of longer games.
Navegador
I taught this game of exploration and tried a strategy of starting by building a gold factory and later getting sugar plantations. My economy never kicked in and I faded badly. Liz started by exploring the coast of Africa, her expanding gold mining empire fuelled her ship building and colonizing enterprise. Ceedee was a keen but poor explorer who somehow managed to build churches. John had both gold mines and sugar plantations and made plenty of money, which is counter to our normal ideas of a good economy. Luke had both sugar plantations and sugar factories.
John B 85 Ceedee 82 Liz 80 Luke 69 Ian 63Taj Mahal
John lost a big battle against Sharon and another one against Tobes, which . Tobes had a newbie tendency to stay in fights longer than was good for him. Sharon developed a well connected network of palaces but it wasn't enough to come back against Anne who won 8 markets. Perhaps there wasn't enough competition with the elephants.
Anne 60 Sharon 52 Tobes 42 John R 32Around the World in 80 Days
John objects to the blue cards in this race game, so a house rule was played so that in addition to the normal effects of blue cards, the person drawing it gets to draw again. Sharon raced efficiently around the world and finished first. No one else managed to finish in fewer days.
Sharon 65 John R 68 Tobes 69 Anne 73Coloretto
This game was new to Liz and Ceedee, but they caught on quickly. Ceedee was perhaps a little conservative, while Luke was very greedy. In this game greed paid off.
Luke 28 + 31 + 22 = 81 Liz 20 + 31 + 21 = 72 Ian 25 + 23 + 23 = 71 John B 23 + 19 + 26 = 68 Ceedee 15 + 24 + 17 = 56
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