Blue Moon City

Mike had us over for the college football game (#1 Ohio State vs. #2 U.T. Austin). I was hoping for a nice lively game on Mike’s new HD-TV. But with Vince Young gone, U.T. was playing poorly.

John brought Blue Moon City for us to try. This is another new Knizia game (surprise, surprise) that uses artwork from his Blue Moon series. It was a nice game. And one that I will play again.

You move your piece around the board and try to build (cities?). When all of the spots on a tile are filled up, crystals are then awarded according to the majorities. Completed tiles also give bonuses to orthagonal tiles (snowballing the crystal income). In the middle of the board, you offer your crystals to the obelisk for one of four needed spots. The person who completes four spots wins the game. Pretty simple.

Oh yeah, perhaps I didn’t watch the game because the view of the TV was blocked! Flawed!!

Tichu

Mikey likes Tichu now! So I am obligated to force him to play. And Gravitt gets caught in the cross-fire. I’ll turn them both into Tichu players yet…

This was a painful game for me. There was a lot of random wishing. Jon started it out by wishing for an Ace and playing a straight. Unfortunately, I had the Phoenix and could satisfy that wish. Next, John wish for a four out of me. And then John wished for an Ace out of me. Sigh… We seem to be regressing here…