Lascaux, Quarriors, Piece of Cake
A game night, and at that game night, I played some games. Game game game.
Anyway! The night started with a bidding game in which you are trying to acquire these cave paintings by selecting a color and putting your stones into a pot. When you choose to stop, you take all the stones thrown in and set your chip down, securing your place in line. Once everyone is in, the last person to bow out gets all the paintings that match their color, then the next to last person, and so on. It's quite clever, with some interesting give and take, and I managed to win by going all in one round to get all the pictures of rhinoceros.
Also played Quarriors a couple of times, to show it off some. The players liked it pretty well, although there are a lot of cards that are only useful if certain other cards are in play, like the spell that forces another player to discard a spell. I can think of very few times I'd ever want to use that. But it went alright; I managed to buy a dragon for once, only for someone to steal it from me with a creature worth half the price. It was nonsense.
Piece of Cake is a game about pie. I don't know why they called it Piece of Cake, but you're trying to take the pieces of pie that are worth the most points. You can either hang on to the pie to score big points if you have the most at the end, or eat the pie immediately for instant points. One thing that confused the heck out of me is that the most plentiful pieces of pie were worth the most points, while pieces that there were only three of were worth a measly one point each. I didn't get it, because everything I know about supply and demand says the opposite should be true. But somehow it kinda works here. I say kinda because I managed to win even though I was grabbing mostly pies from the lower end of the stack, so I guess my theory doesn't hold? I don't know.
A game night, and at that game night, I played some games. Game game game.
Anyway! The night started with a bidding game in which you are trying to acquire these cave paintings by selecting a color and putting your stones into a pot. When you choose to stop, you take all the stones thrown in and set your chip down, securing your place in line. Once everyone is in, the last person to bow out gets all the paintings that match their color, then the next to last person, and so on. It's quite clever, with some interesting give and take, and I managed to win by going all in one round to get all the pictures of rhinoceros.
Also played Quarriors a couple of times, to show it off some. The players liked it pretty well, although there are a lot of cards that are only useful if certain other cards are in play, like the spell that forces another player to discard a spell. I can think of very few times I'd ever want to use that. But it went alright; I managed to buy a dragon for once, only for someone to steal it from me with a creature worth half the price. It was nonsense.
Piece of Cake is a game about pie. I don't know why they called it Piece of Cake, but you're trying to take the pieces of pie that are worth the most points. You can either hang on to the pie to score big points if you have the most at the end, or eat the pie immediately for instant points. One thing that confused the heck out of me is that the most plentiful pieces of pie were worth the most points, while pieces that there were only three of were worth a measly one point each. I didn't get it, because everything I know about supply and demand says the opposite should be true. But somehow it kinda works here. I say kinda because I managed to win even though I was grabbing mostly pies from the lower end of the stack, so I guess my theory doesn't hold? I don't know.
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