accomplishedAs with the Friday night group this week, we spent the afternoon playing some board games, and just relaxing a bit and chatting about various stuff as well.
After
spross and Tammy showed up, we sat around and chatted for a bit. Nothing intense, nothing heavy. Just idle chit chat. Then it was time to game. We started off with a couple of hands of Poo! The Card Game. Without the presence of my goddaughter to lend an atmosphere of shall we slight vulgarity and silliness, once the players got over the obvious side of things that go with the game, it went pretty smoothly. In the first game, spross got pooed to death twice, dying on Turn 6 and on Turn 9, but resurrected both times by the Golden Banana card. I pooed out on T15, and then Tammy beat spross on Turn 19 to win the game. In the second game, spross got pooed out on Turn 11 and Turn 18, but returned each time with the Golden Banana card, but Tammy also ended up out of the game on Turn 18 as well. In the final play, spross beat me and won the game on Turn 21.After a bit of a break, we switched games and decided to play some Nuts! The Card Game. Both players loved the crazy names that some of the cards had in this game, and the guffaws, laughs (to the point of crying at times), and chortles about the card names was prevalent throughout this game's play. In the first game, I managed to accumulate 23 Nuts at the end of Turn 13, and won that one. There was some really intense card play at times during that game. In the second game of Nuts! The Card Game, Tammy managed to make some interesting card draws as well as grabbing Nuts from the other two players, and got a win with 20 Nuts on Turn 6! Overall, a fun pair of games, and both
spross and Tammy agreed that Nuts! The Card Game is somewhat more enjoyable than Poo! The Card Game. After another quick break, the three of us set up for playing the Pandemic (here's the Wikipedia entry) board game, using the basic set. Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and published by Z-Man Games in 2008. Pandemic is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each threatening to wipe out a region. The game accommodates 2 to 4 players (5 with the Expansion set), each playing one of five possible specialists (dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher or operations expert). The game is unlike most board games as the gameplay is cooperative, rather than competitive. Through the combined effort of all the players, the goal is to discover all four cures before any of several game-losing conditions are reached. An expansion, Pandemic: On the Brink (co-designed by Matt Leacock and Tom Lehmann), adds several new roles and special events, and rules adjustments to allow a fifth player. In addition, several rules expansions are included, referred to as "challenge kits".
Once I explained the basic rules to
spross (who had already played the game with me a couple of times) and Tammy, we set up the game board and got ready to play. We managed to play two games of Pandemic, and had a pretty good game both times, though we lost the first one when we ran out of Player Cards for Tammy to draw from the pile. Here's a photo from that first game:
Tammy decided that she wanted to play a second game, as she was eager to actually win over the diseases, so we re-set the game board up and got down to it. This second game of Pandemic went much better, as we managed to win the game by curing the four diseases (and actually managing to eradicate one of them as well). Here's a photo from the second game:
In both games,
spross had the Operations Specialist, Tammy took the Medic, and I played the Researcher. The games went really well and were quite enjoyable, and Tammy even said that she liked this game a lot, and would play it again.Overall, a good afternoon of board gaming and card gaming and a nice, relaxing time. Next week, the Sunday group will return to roleplaying games, and I am quite looking forward to that.