Board Games

Played Lost Legacy and Love Letter. Both games are very similar simple fast card games. Fun but not as strategic as Coup. Next was Hanabi and we scored really low. Then we played Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game. We used the Alien 3 set and all humans lost including the traitor. It seems like the coordinate mechanic could have been used more. Then we debated what next game we were going to play and ended up rolling a die. Ryan picked Dead of Winter. We voted to exile Walker and he ended up not being a traitor. Stephen was revealed as the traitor at the end. Walker and Stephen met their win conditions. Dead of Winter is a strange game as far as winning goes since every player has different win conditions. So you can end up with multiple winners and multiple losers that aren't necessarily based on teams. My issue is that my completing my sub objective doesn't optimally help me complete the main objective. I guess it is supposed to simulate the chaotic nature and selfishness of a zombie apocalypse.

Then another night:

2 weeks ago gaming night report. We first played Carcossonne on Walker's iPad mini. I somehow won scoring 80 something with 20 something attributed to one dude. I still haven't figured out scoring for Carcossonne. Then we played Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game. We used the Alien 1 card set and the humans handily won. We probably should play with a traitor in the future to make it challenging. Then we played the card game Hanabi. It's a pure cooperative memory game where you don't see your own hand but you see all the other players' hands. They give you clues to what is in your hand and you have to try and play the correct cards based on those clues. I really enjoyed it because it's kinda backwards from all other card games. Also played a couple games of Coup; Walker won once and so did I.