What I Played Today: April 10

A Fool's Fortune, Nexus Ops

I played a game of A Fool's Fortune, which I still don't know that well, so I spent about half the game accusing my opponent of cheating. I knew that he wasn't cheating, he was just playing the cards he had, but I didn't know he could do that, so he must have cheated.

Also Nexus Ops, which is an interesting quick area control game with a lot of secret missions and interactions. I like the pace of the game, and how it rewards aggressive action and just how quickly the game can spin. I ended up win by holding back until the last minute and then suddenly striking for a quick six points by taking out a lava dude and using up all the cards I was stockpiling.

What I Played Today: March 29

Love Letter, Race for the Galaxy, Legends of Andor, Guillotine, A Fool's Fortune

They have finally gotten around to reprinted Love Letter, and I picked up a copy. Then I played a few rounds with some people who did not get the game and did not like it. Come on guys, it's filler. It's not supposed to be complicated.

Then a game of Race for the Galaxy, where I went full military and came in fourth, even though I had the most prestige and three of the 8+ military strength planets, which are worth a ton of points. I just don't know where I went wrong. Well, I didn't get the 6 cost technology that would have actually taken advantage of my insane military, so that might have been. Stupid Race.

Then we tried Legends of Andor, which is interesting! It has this odd time mechanic and no rulebook for some reason, but a lot of fun little pieces. There is this super weird part where if you move yourself, you can only move one space per hour, but if you move an ally, you can move up to four spaces in an hour. I guess it can be used to drive player interaction... Anyway, it became clear that we needed to fight this really strong super boss, and so we all got together and tried to beat the crap out of it, and we just had a series of really bad rolls and it didn't happen, and now everyone hates the game. Well, I don't hate the game, but apparently that doesn't matter.

A quick filler game of Guillotine, in which all four players got the exact number of points. It was...uncanny. I don't even know how that works.

Also finally got to try out A Fool's Fortune, which is a trick taking with a lot of weird rules and I don't know how to explain it to anyone. Apparently you make sets. I got a hand of all characters to start though, so I didn't start well, and it didn't end well for me. But I get the game now, seems like a fun two-player.