Two Golden Oldies
A spring evening of reasonable weather (neither aircon nor umbrellas needed) saw us once again at the Jannali Gamerdome. Nicole away in Canberra and Genelle also away meant we were six. The “Golden Oldies” were the games picked by their author El Prez. I call them Oldies because neither had been played for about 9 years; that’s long enough for all of us who were there 9 years ago to completely forget the rules, so it was like playing new games again – which was El Prez‘s intention all along.
The main game was Olympic Event which took a couple of rounds before we were comfortable with it, and it was won by our host himself. In my opinion the game needs improvement, there seem to be too many moves in which nothing happens, it makes no attempt to mimic the actual olympics. Of course, the fact that I came a convincing last place may have left me a bit biased agains it. I probably wouldn’t choose it on my hosting turn.
The backup was Reno Casino which was much better – and not because I happened to win it! I might choose it one day as host. The stand-out play was when Pete managed to unload a whole lot of bad cards on the player to his left (Wayne), then only one or two moves later, Wayne landed on “swap hands with the player on your right” so he gave them all back and received a nice small hand in return. It was priceless.
On the scoreboard Matt has narrowed the gap between himself and the leader Tara from 95 down to 55 points, and Wayne got two helpings of points to break out of his 5-month tied score with Nicole and is now part of the middle bunch 185 points below Matt. The trailers in Spoon territory are Nicole and Peter who was the only WHP.