tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69903442011-12-14T22:05:53.466-05:00Comments about games I've played recently, or games I want to play, or games I DON'T want to play.Chris Lohroffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08583055743522231139noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6990344.post-1102022343590279212004-12-02T16:14:00.000-05:002004-12-02T16:19:03.590-05:00

I played 3 games of Ticket to Ride online last night (all 2 player games) in 45 minutes. Amazing really. I love the online version of the game (http://www.ticket2ridegame.com). It takes does all the hard work for you. I think it's likely the best online board game implementation I've played... although I really liked Power Grid on Brettspielwelt as well.

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OK, this isn't exactly a game post, but if you have a hyperactive child that enjoys playing games, I guess you could apply this information to that situation. My daughter is 6 years old and is very (dare I say hyper) active. I believe that in many schools we would have been encouraged to put her on medication, which we would have rejected. At her school, they have a card system for tracking a

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Rob hosted this month and even though I arrived late, I got plenty of good gaming in. They were playing Goa when I arrived. Brian also arrived late so I decided to teach him Duell. James Miller game me a copy of this a few weeks ago and I really like the game. We played with the advanced Duell rules (which use the round modifiers and parries, but not lunges). Of the round modifiers, I like the

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On Saturday, October 9th the Grand Rapids Area Boardgamers hosted a game day. This is our 6th if I recall correctly and we had 20-25 people. Several people came over from Lansing and James Miller made the trip from Akron, Ohio. We started at noon and played until about 1:30 am. Thanks again to Tony and his church for allowing us to use their facilities (at no charge even!) I played the following

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Sarah wanted to play Champion Forest (her name) again last night. This time, we followed the rules. I had forgotten about the 3 options when you roll doubles (look at any unoccupied tree, move over the stone bridge, change the top card). The game went much better. It still took us a very long time to find the first symbol, but the game moved along after that. She won this time, but there

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We recently implemented a new punishment/reward system for our 6 year old. She LOVES Spongebob, so I bought her a Spongebob refrigerator magnet set. When she does something good (like get herself ready for school without fussing, helping her 2 year old system pick up her toys) or goes several hours without fussing or talking back, she gets to move Spongebob 1 space closer to the jellyfish (

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I used to play Pinochle quite a bit when I was growing up. I remember thinking it was a terrific game. Recently some friends at work expressed an interest in learning it, so we've been playing at lunch for the last several weeks. I gotta say... I don't know what attracted me to it. Perhaps my perspective is different now that I've played some "real" games. I have found that there really aren't a

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We had some friends over the other night and Elaine suggested we play Kaleidos and Ticket to Ride. Prior to the first puzzle, our friends seemed a bit hesitant about Kaleidos. Neither of them scored particularly well during the first round, but they caught on quickly and by the 3rd round they were scoring as much as Elaine and I. They really enjoyed the game. In fact, we recommended stopping

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We played Ticket to Ride twice during lunch this past week.  I managed to win both games using the same strategy.  I won the first game by 10 points and the second game by 3 points.  In both games I picked 2 short routes (total value was about 20 points).  I complete them and then added to my train by building the longest routes I could.  In both games I got the bonus for longest train, which

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Ra Chris* Rob I, Rob G, Craig I finally won this stinking game. I've probably played Ra 10 or 15 times and previous to today I only managed a tie for the win. The first round I started with middle numbers (12-7-3 I think) and I invoked almost every time. I managed to get some monuments, get a few Niles, avoid the 5 point penalty for no civilization and I got a couple of pharoahs and avoided

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Yinsh Chris, Josh* Josh had played this game once before and I beat him, but I figured he would get his revenge after he had a game under his belt and I was correct. Josh is very good at these kinds of games and he beat me handily. Although I did score 2 points (to his 3), I was behind 2-0 for a good part of the game and scored my second just 1 turn before he scored his third. I really like

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IQ-5 x3 Josh*** Chris I saw IQ-5 at Gulf Games in Pensacola and I've been intrigued by it ever since. I ordered a copy from Funagain and got it just in time for our monthly gaming session. Josh showed up before anyone else and we decided to try it out. In IQ-5 each player has "pins" that contain two colored ends... red/blue, yellow/red, yellow/blue. Players take turns inserting a pin into

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At lunch yesterday I managed to score 14 points in a game of Ticket to Ride. I had a plan, and it was actually very fun (and tense) trying to make it work, but needless to say, it didn't. I kept the following 2 routes LA to Miami Vancouver to Montreal My plan was to build across the US and then down the coasts, but when players started building down the east and west coast early in the game I

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Rob I, Jim I, Chris L Previoulsly, Rob had only played a few hands of Flaschenteufel and really didn't like it. Since we had 3 players today, we talked him into giving it another try... and then we made him lead the first trick of the first hand. He plunked the 15 yellow out there, and immediately realized that it was a bad play because Jim and I both got rid of low yellows. Rob was stuck

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We played Ticket to Ride at lunch today. The final results were very close. Jim won with 115. Rob and I both had 114. Chris Clark was in the 70's. Chris took an additional route card toward the end in hopes of getting some easy points. He didn't get one he could connect, so he had to take the negative points. Jim had the longest train and connected only two routes (both were in the north).

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We traveled to Cleveland for the weekend to participate in the Kitchen Table Gamers game day. It was the first time the KTGers attempted this and they did a fantastic job. I feel really good about it because it was inspired by the game days we have had here in Grand Rapids which some of the KTG crowd attended in January. Craig, James, Michael, Mike, and John did a terrific job organizing the

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We again had the pleasure of visiting the Berg family for the weekend and it was a terrific time. They are SOOOO much fun to be around, not to mention that we often get to play lots of games together. On Friday evening we played Ticket to Ride, which is one of my favorite new games of the year. I won for the first time by connecting my two tracks on my last turn, thanks to the fact that I drew

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Well, my lastest gaming obsession is called SuperPlexus. It's a marble maze and it's very addictive. My current best scores are 32 seconds for level 1 and 67 seconds for level 2. I have not yet conquered level 3. My left elbow hurts from playing with the stupid puzzle for so long. Perhaps I should take a few days off... but I don't see that happening any time soon.

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I'm not sure why I think you'd care about what I have to say, but I wanted a place to save my ramblings on games and this seemed like as good a place as any.

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