Games Club wrapup

[avram]

I picked up a copy of Loco at the Compleat Strategist in the afternoon. We played two games of it, one with four players and one with three, and for some reason it didn’t seem as much fun as Quandary, even though I’m pretty sure the mechanics are identical. Maybe the components (Quandary has really nice tiles) do matter.

I won Puerto Rico for the first time, with 49 points, beating out bigscary by just one point. I’d started off strongly, then foundered for much of the game unable to ship anything during captain phases. I pulled ahead by getting a buttload of money and being able to buy the two large buildings that yielded the best bonus points for my situation.

Nicht Die Bohn is marketed as yet another Bohnanza spin-off, though it really isn’t. The reviewer got it right who said “This is not a game where you have a huge amount of control, but it is one that often offers plenty of scope for group malice”. There’s a lot of second-guessing involved.

We finished off with a couple of quite intense games of Call My Bluff, then walked down to Big Nick’s and introduced one of the newbies to the pure creamy liquid ecstasy that is garlic soup.

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[avram]

Yup. And several other buildings I’d bought after the university. I think it was the fourth or fifth building I bought, and I filled my city.