Jenseits von Theben

Marty brought Jenseits tonight after seeing us play it at Tim’s. This time we used a harder table when digging for artefacts. And harder it was. After the game was over, we learned that quite a number of artefacts had been removed from the decks during the preparation for the game.

In this game, I was a little inefficient. I got one shovel (useless). Another one didn’t show up until the game was almost over. At that point, everyone had done all of the digging that they were going to do. Which meant that the cards were useless and were left taking up space on the board. Also, not many exihibitions came up because the card display was stagnated.

Jon was impressively well balanced in knowledge in the different sites. So I was out of contention for the seven point bonus at the end. What was painfull though was I was trying to boost my most knowledge in two of the sites where I was in the lead. But the cards for those sites didn’t come up on my turn. So when I took a different card and the replacement was the card that I was looking for, I was bummed. Jon was able to take it on his turn and pip me for most knowledge in one of my two sites (giving him four more points). Sigh. Still fun to play though.

Tichu

Marty finally played Tichu with me. Our team started off strong but lost in the end to two Grand-Tichu one-twos in a row! Argh!

The Princes of Florence

Adam brought this game out to the table. It has been quite some time since I played it. Wait… let me look that info up at Dan’s site… Sheesh! I have played it on two other times: 2001-06-02 and 2002-03-14! Quite some time indeed.

After a quick rules refresher, We jumped into it. Adam did his usual strategy of building a lot of works. Which was enough to give him the win.