I enjoyed playing Kubb, I will have to look for a version here in the UK!Kettlefish, it would be nice to hear about Benny's adventure in the Carcassonne-on-Tour bus for the final people who stayed a little longer on Sunday!
Many prizes were presented – Mr Numbers won another signed print from Doris Matthaus & Jenny won a copy of the Hunters & Gatherers + Robber & King mini-expansion. Maj.Frost required this expansion to complete his collection and Klaus-Jurgen Wrede had already presented me with his final copy that he had signed for a giveaway.
It truly has been one of the most pleasurable experiences Mrs_Decar and I have had.
I hope PresetM used that constructive thinking time to create a new tournament layout
There are currently 12 (or 14?) nuns active there but they live a secluded life dedicated to their religion.
It must be said, I rather like beer and the St.M produces 2 kinds: light & dark (drunkel). The dark beer was very malty and provided a nice rich head that lasted for the duration of the drink (like any good beer should).
I found the card setup fiddly with 2-players, I played Mr Numbers with 2-players on day-4 and it seemed like only 2x2-tier card would ever be added to the buy-line in their last turns. I feel like we made a mistake.
We played a number of games of Azul - though I find it straight-forward I find it difficult to know what the best outcome is I believe MrNumbers was able to channel the tile-spirits and determine the best course of action.
Carcassonne Safari:Of the Around the World Series, I don't think it beats South Seas - but after 3 plays it feels close and definitely in the top 1/2.
Skull KingI believe this is Mr Number's 3rd favourite game (after Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride of course) - I do not frequently play Trick Taking games, I usually find them somewhat irritating to play. However, Skull King is the exception. During the week, when there was doubt on what to play Skull King would hit the table. There's just the right balance of luck/chance of killer moves which created several hilarious moments during the week. That and shouting: Yo-Ho-Ho during before casting you bet for the round created a lot of energy. Thanks to Mr Numbers for showing this game to us. Udo was kind enough to give Jenny a copy because she enjoyed it so much.
This prevented those stronger players (Mr Numbers, Udo and maybe myself) from being able to count tiles during their games.
Finally, we played “Do de li do” and broke many fingers slapping the crocodile. What a silly game, it’s great fun and a great ice breaker!
Klaus-Jürgen won the race and Mr Numbers took third!
Other hilarious moments involved our team exactly guessing the combined height of Moritz and Klaus-Jurgen.
Mr Numbers taught us another game, which I cannot remember the name of – it involves trying to find treasure within a certain number of guesses. After 6 guesses the cards are reshuffled. Two players were ‘locals’ trying to prevent the treasure from being taken. I quite liked the game, as I don’t really like bluffing games, but I felt this was well implemented
Mr Numbers had lost 2 games (against Benny? and Kettlefish) , while I had yet to lose one.
We also played this game…. I have no idea what it’s called…..we lost pretty badly!
Time for some more games of Azul and Love Letter. Mr Numbers….are you the princess?
Over on the other table Mrs_Decar and Mr Numbers teamed up against Gerti & Maj.Frost with Star Wars: Carcassonne!
We sat down to play Between Two Cities with Martin and Gerti. Mr Numbers wasn't too sure about it, but I told him it was a numbers game, so he wanted to give it a try.[...]We had a short break and then PresetM and Maik63de joined us – a victory for Mr Numbers if I recall!
I was somewhat apprehensive at first as I thought we’d be locked in a tower playing nothing but Carcassonne for a week. Instead we've been introduced to many new games.
everyone who attended wanted to know about a member of Carcassonne Central who couldn’t be with us. I popped in to see him on the way home and begin Decar’s Delivery service (the trans-European-Carcassonne delivery service), to deliver a birthday gift from Mr Numbers.
As I understood, next fan meeting is already in plans, so, this will be "must visit" event definitely! Hopefully we will have more participants next time!
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