Tonight we concentrated on older games. And first on the table was a game that I don’t think that I have played yet (sad but true). This is a majority game where there are three main areas where you fight over (the city of Amsterdam, the four seas, and the commodity market). On a player’s turn, they flip a card over and assign it to one of three places. One place is the discard pile (no one gets to use it). One place is on the auction block (everyone has the chance to bid on it). And the other place is only for the current player’s use. For the auction, this game has a rather unique auction clock. It slowly counts down from 200 to 50. The person who stops it first gets to buy it. And since I have heard stories about how fragile it is, I decided to keep it safe. I would start it ticking and then someone would shout out “stop” and I would stop the clock. The only problem was if multiple people said “stop” at the same time. And to resolve that tie we used modsies (much to the chagrin of Gravitt).
In this game, everyone bid way too much for cards. But since everyone was doing it, I don’t think that that mattered as much. Prices were relative. The final scoring round was very tense with Jon winning the game.
Ahhh, Ursuppe, the game of poop… teheheh… how I love to say that. Excuse me, sir. Please take that chit somewhere else… hohoho.
Its been a while since have played this game. And of course you forget which combinations of genes you should go for. Adam went for tentacles and substition, Jon went for movement I and Life Expectancy, Mike and I went for Parasitism. Which put fear into the others. And, of course, we ran into a rules question. The rules state “For each Foodstuff cube less an amoeba needs a foreign amoeba on the same square, who’s owner pays 1BP to the bank instead.” Mike and I took that to mean that one person could pay 2BPs for us. While everyone else took it to mean that we needed two amoebas for 1BP each.
Still a fun game to play after all these years.