Timbuktu

Tonight the Rozmiareks showed up which was nice. And since Shea was there, Roxanna showed up with Dylan. Adam and I were a little late in leaving work which meant we arrived at 6:30. This meant that there were people waiting to be let in. Its a good thing when gaming can start on time! I had originally wanted to play Caylus tonight but switched to Timbuktu when the Rozes picked out Timbuktu to play. This is an interesting game with a light amount of deduction in it. I started out strong by loosing only a couple of my goods to thieves. However I was subjected to the one negative luck-of-the-draw aspect of this game: that is learning that thieves are stealing from position 1 (you draw this card 2/5ths of the time). This means that you must randomly pick one of the other 4 spots and hope you don’t find the other 1 thief. This happened to me. And also in the latter half of the game, when it was my turn to move, I had no safe spots to move to. This really hurt me and moved me to third place.

Fairy Tale

Roxana showed up and we convinced her to postpone going to Best Buy and buying an iPod mini and instead play a light game. Ed chose Fairy Tale. I was going strong until the last round when no cards came by to help me. Its still a cute, light, and fun game.

Tichu

Everyone left except for four trick taking players. Which meant the Tichu smack-down started. I picked Adam as my partner. On the first hand, the other team Tichued and one/twoed! We were at a disadvantage! However, after that, we dominated them with 6 Tichues (2 from myself) while they got most of the points.