What I Played Today: January 28

Ticket to Ride: Nordic, Nottingham, Ora et Labora

Played a couple of games of Ticket to Ride: Nordic, which is vicious as hell. The game is designed for only 2 or 3 players, so the routes are lot more exclusive, and its very easy to get blocked and lose a lot of points because you can't achieve your destination. If that wasn't enough, the engines are no longer wild, and are in fact required for certain routes, so...that sucks. I don't think I'm a fan of this one.

Also played Nottingham, which is interesting set collection, where you can either take the card offered, or give up the card to use a special action to hopefully get the card you want. It's pretty alright, although I'm not a big fan of the weird mechanic in which after someone scores, anyone with less than a certain number of cards gets a card for free. Mainly, because the person who just played a set gets another leg up, and the person who is waiting for the card they need gets nothing. It only helps those who are already doing alright.

Then a long game of Ora et Labora, that actually wasn't that long, because myself and another player were quick decision makers. It went really well, although I got cornered by one of the players falling into a wicked combo, and maybe half a dozen times I played to take a particular action, only for someone else to do it first. But it was good playing it with people who seemed to get the game.

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