Peter and Michelle invited us over to their place for gaming on New Year's Eve. We took Carcassonne with "The Princess & the Dragon" expansion and we kicked off with that. I'll have to verify the results with Peter, but I think Michelle won.
Then we played Peter's christmas acquisition "Manila" by the designer who brought us Trans America. Manila is a game about the risky business of shipping goods to Manila, but I like to think of it as betting on a series of horse races. Each race starts with an auction for Harbour Master who gets to increase his stake in one of the types of good and rig the start of the race by deciding where each boat starts. Then everyone places an accomplice, paying for the privelige (think of placing a bet), the dice are thrown and the boats moved. This happens three times and the race is over and the lucky people collect their payouts.
There is of course a lot of luck involved, but the pieces are nice, the decisions interesting and the whole thing is a lot of fun. Michelle found two pirate hats and a harbour master's hat for us to wear. She also won, leaving Peter 99 Pesos behind, with Anne and I in between.
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