We started this game while we waited for Nigel to arrive. He arrived half way through the first hand and took over Anne's hand while she talked on the phone.
There is no stopping Andrew at the Zoo.
Anna 2 5 10 15 19
Andrew 4 11 17 24 27
Ian -1 5 5 9 15
Anne 4 5 9 10 12
John B 4 7 10 9 10
Nigel - 0 1 3 6
Attika
Anne got boxed in, in her original location and started another location. She and Nigel both tried for shrine to shrine victories but were stopped. Anna got all her buildings built to beat Nigel and Anne (who was one building behind).
Clippers
It's been a long time between plays. This game were players have incentives to take the routes to visit particular destinations is superficially similar to Expedition. But it involves much more thinking and taking into account the other player's potential actions, as the various shipping lines are much limited and number of points for a destination can vary between zero and 72 or more.
The red shipping line got sidelined to Hawaii, while the black line zig-zagged until it ran out mid-ocean and green got all the way across the Pacific. Attention then turned to white and purple. Finally red branched and restarted and blue took off for a run to NZ and Australia.
Following John's example we got all our ports down and Andrew and John even paid to move some ports to more valuable spots.
Andrew was initially confused by the choices but soon got into the evil shafting that makes up this game. The results were pretty close.
John 216
Ian 210
Andrew 208
10 Day in Europe
While the final clipper lines were snaking across the Pacific Anne and Anna each won a game, while Nigel whined and complained a lot!
Beowulf
Anna, Andrew and Nigel were all tired and left three of us. John wanted a revenge for his disastrous showing on Wednesday.
I started with an amazing streak of luck with my risks. But by the time we got to the swap 5 cards for 5VP I only had 7 cards (+2 specials) left. I rashly traded in 5 cards for 5VP and then 2 drinking horns for a scroll. I used my 5 card risk special card to put pressure on the others in Dragon's Rampage (both had large hands of cards). Anne got the Iron Shield. In Dragon Battle Anne and John still had a number of cards. I started with the Hides of Land (3 wild) but risked and lost to collect the double wound and two cards. Anne and John ran each other down to one card as they fought over the 7VP and to avoid the scratch. I had the most money for 7VP and my two cards beat the others so I could heal my third wound and avoid loosing 15 VP.
John managed to collect far more scrolls than Anne and I put together and we were close at the finish.
Ian 27
John 26
Anne 11
The three player game tends to make the competition sharper as there tends to be one very good reward, one very bad "reward" and a mediocre one in each major event.
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