Success at last!

[avram]

Success! Nobody seems to manufacture non-photo blue mechanical pencil leads for American markets, but they do for Japan! Kinokuniya Books had them. That was the second way-cool thing to happen today.

The first was when I stopped in at LensCrafters to get my glasses cleaned (they’d gotten covered in greasy spatter while I was getting a beef kabob), picking up a box of lens wipes, and the woman at the counter finding a coupon sitting there that got me the wipes for free.

Then off to Games Club, where I got in on a five-person game of Call My Bluff, which I won having lost only one die.

My luck didn’t hold through the game of Tin Soldiers, an odd trick-taking game where I got my ass handed to me. (Hey, womzilla — this is designed by Al Newman; don’t we know him?)

Then I introduced a bunch of newbies to Ice Towers, which three out of four of them loved, and we played four games of it.

Comments

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Al Newman is one of the mainstays of the Long Island Gamers group. You've gamed at his house several times.

Tin Soldiers is a design he came up with in the 1970s. He didn't try to market back then, even though he was publishing games, because it was developed as a standard-deck card game. But when he came back to publishing games in the 1990s, he realized it worked somewhat better with a custom deck.