…when the Spamamaniacs run wild on you? I logged in today to find nearly 50 comments waiting to be approved. That would have been neat if they’d been real comments by real fans of the site. But alas, they were all spam. One by one, they were each sent to the land of Spam Folder where spam posts can laugh and play all day. Until Harvest Day when the red light in their hand turns on and they’re culled. Admittedly I may be mixing my metaphors. Suffice it to say, spam bad.
I played Catan: The Dice Game and Tokaido on Friday. Tokaido is perhaps one of the prettiest games I’ve seen. But at two players, it’s a little lacking. There’s a ghost player to add a little intrigue, but really, blocking a person from making the stop they need is rarely the optimal play for the other player so both players just go along the path and hope they get the best cards. I really need to try it with more players to see how it shakes out.
Catan: The Dice Game is very luck driven but still fun. You have three rolls to try to get the best possible combination of dice to be able to build on your map. Each thing on the map has a point value but except for the knights, everything you build (including roads) has to be connected to an existing road. Any turn where you can’t build at least one thing gives you an X worth -2 points. You have fifteen turns to build as much as you can. At the end of the last round, everybody totals up their points and the highest total wins. Players familiar with Yahtzee should be able to pick it up easily. It’s good as a filler game. I wouldn’t want to make an evening of just that though.
After gaming, I brought my bike in for a tune-up. The shopkeeper said it could take up to fifteen days to get my bike back. He’s the only bike repair shop I know of, so I had to agree to the terms. That’s two weeks of having to take the bus to and from work. Darn.
On my way home from the bike repair shop, I stopped in to Chez Guy, which is a gift shop that has a small board game section. It’d been a while since I’d gone so I wanted to see what they had. I don’t know what happened, but the section looked bigger than the last time I’d stopped in and the selection was pretty good. The only drawback is that the games are almost exclusively in French. It’s not really a deal breaker, but my natural preference is to get games in English. I picked up a little card game named Linko! and made a note of a couple of other games that I was interested in. I will have to go back in the near future.
That’s pretty much all for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.