Games club: Blokus, Intrigue, Ingenious

[avram]

Games club:

Two games of Blokus — I did reasonably well in the first, horribly in the second. I’m coming to think that offensive play is more important than defensive, and that being second or third to the center is better than being first.

I’d been to the Strat on Thursday, and seen that Intrigue had come back into print, so I’d bought a copy. I started off poorly, but recovered and won, setting up bugsybanana for a backstab at the end. There wasn’t much enthusiasm for the game, though. I probably should have tried hamming it up with a little in-character talk — Stephen would have joined right in, and it probably would have caught on and upped the fun quotient.

Then two games of Ingenious, the first of which I won. I haven’t figured out if this game has a strategic component, though it does have tactics.

Comments

[jl8e]

I'm pretty sure Ingenious has strategy.

I'm less sure I know what that strategy is, but there's definitely long-term planning in there. (Well, medium-term.)

[mneme]

Yes. There's a lot of making sure you're not closed out on the Big Things, and getting a feel for what colors are going to dry up when ('course, if you don't have the tiles...you don't have the tiles).