Cards Against Humanity, Le Havre, Dominion, Roulette
I've driven more in the past week than I usually work during an average week. It was balls. But here is what I managed to play when I wasn't in a goddamn car!
My first stop was in Los Angeles, where I played a couple games of Cards Against Humanity. I like the addition of a random card when there are a small number of players, adds a bit of variety, although makes it super easy to figure out when someone else said something horrible. Also, they don't handle Pick 2's very well. I got dealt a card that was a full sentence (YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS), which was funny, but also didn't fit any of the prompts at all, so it sat in my hand forever. I finally offloaded it somehow, but didn't win, so...I don't know...
Also played the new Hinterlands from Dominion while it was there. It was...alright, I think the random cards we got weren't the best set. There was something a little off about them, they made it easy to take a really long turn, but hard to get a lot of big money, since there was the constant threat of someone Robin Hooding your gold away from you. Plus, half the time Robin Hood didn't do anything useful, and he did something not useful constantly...eh.
I went to Las Vegas and I feel bad about it! I played some roulette (noted for completeness), which I kinda like a lot, it's an interesting game of chance, where it's really to your advantage to play the whole field. For some reason, at the fancy no-dealer table I was at, they showed to the stats of what numbers have been hot lately, what hasn't been, and I looked at that and thought, "Well, that's useless." Because the odds of it landing on a given number of every single time was 1 in 38. It was literally there to confuse you into making bad decisions.
Got sidetracked in St. George because my car is a jerk, while there, played Le Havre on my cellphone. It's a cute little adaptation, good to have the option to play whenever I want, although it is probably a lot better on a iPad, when you can actually see everything that is going on. I lost by quite a bit because I did not prioritize building buildings, so I couldn't get my wealth up. Shrug.
And then I drove forever. Didn't get a lot of chance to play, not even when I spent a day in Idaho. I did unbox my copy of Eclipse, but that is a story for another time...
I've driven more in the past week than I usually work during an average week. It was balls. But here is what I managed to play when I wasn't in a goddamn car!
My first stop was in Los Angeles, where I played a couple games of Cards Against Humanity. I like the addition of a random card when there are a small number of players, adds a bit of variety, although makes it super easy to figure out when someone else said something horrible. Also, they don't handle Pick 2's very well. I got dealt a card that was a full sentence (YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS), which was funny, but also didn't fit any of the prompts at all, so it sat in my hand forever. I finally offloaded it somehow, but didn't win, so...I don't know...
Also played the new Hinterlands from Dominion while it was there. It was...alright, I think the random cards we got weren't the best set. There was something a little off about them, they made it easy to take a really long turn, but hard to get a lot of big money, since there was the constant threat of someone Robin Hooding your gold away from you. Plus, half the time Robin Hood didn't do anything useful, and he did something not useful constantly...eh.
I went to Las Vegas and I feel bad about it! I played some roulette (noted for completeness), which I kinda like a lot, it's an interesting game of chance, where it's really to your advantage to play the whole field. For some reason, at the fancy no-dealer table I was at, they showed to the stats of what numbers have been hot lately, what hasn't been, and I looked at that and thought, "Well, that's useless." Because the odds of it landing on a given number of every single time was 1 in 38. It was literally there to confuse you into making bad decisions.
Got sidetracked in St. George because my car is a jerk, while there, played Le Havre on my cellphone. It's a cute little adaptation, good to have the option to play whenever I want, although it is probably a lot better on a iPad, when you can actually see everything that is going on. I lost by quite a bit because I did not prioritize building buildings, so I couldn't get my wealth up. Shrug.
And then I drove forever. Didn't get a lot of chance to play, not even when I spent a day in Idaho. I did unbox my copy of Eclipse, but that is a story for another time...
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