While we were waiting for John we pulled out Frank's Zoo. He arrived during the second hand and joined in the third hand once he knew the rules. Given seven players I expected pairs to be rare but we seemed to have plenty and even a few triples. Because the first player to go out gets 7 points the game can be over pretty quickly.
John R 3 9 14 21
Andrew 5 12 11 20
Anne 5 8 13 18
Ian 2 3 9 10
Nigel -2 3 6 10
Anna 5 4 6 6
John B - - 4 6
Easter Island
Anne bought herself a game on TradeMe and was keen to get it played. I don't know much about this race game but I heard that of the first two finishers, the one with the most rocks in her/his head wins (naturally!)
Anne finished first with 26 stones (winner)
Anna finished second with 24 stones
John R finished last with 30 stones
Metropolys
Nigel stunned us by deciding to play a game he has hated since first playing it a couple of years ago. The other players were the usual suspects. I had gold and lakes and started strong but only got 2 pieces around each of two lakes when I lost the initiative. It bounced around the others. John surrounded one statue and finished the game when he noticed what Andrew had noticed earlier that placing his #13 piece gave him 3 single spots to get his last 4 pieces down, while we still had too many pieces yet to play!
John B 30
Andrew 28
Ian 21
Nigel 16
Attika
My set of Attika might get worn out before I next get to play it. John R got all his buildings down ahead of Anne and Anna.
Anna was aiming to catch a bus so the second game was played at speed and she won (also by getting all her building down).
Patrician
Looking for a short game I cajoled the others into learning this quick game of majorities. You have a hand of three cards and you turn consists of playing a card, building a bit of tower in the city matching the card and picking up the card next to that city. The trick is not only getting the majority in each tower but also picking up cards which further your aims. Some of the cards also have faces on them. A set of 3 of the same face also scores 6 points. Interestingly in the first 3 or 4 cities to be finished both towers were won by the same person.
Andrew 40
John B 37
Ian 32
Nigel 20
California
After Anna, Andrew and Nigel ran to catch the bus (leaving a couple of games behind), we played California. We needed to give John R a quick rules refresher. It is about shopping and interior decorating and the mechanics are easy to explain if you keep that in mind. The scores were close.
Ian 22
Anne 21
John R 20
John B 19
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