March 4, 2006 |
| Draculix |
| Results | |||
| Player | Score | Place | First Time? |
| Mike | Won | 1 | * |
| Karla | Way Back | 2 | * |
| Amanda | Way Way Back | 3 | * |
| Rakesh | Way Way Way Back | 4 | * |
Notes: Draculix is a cute little kids game. Each player has to roll 6 dice up to three times on his turn. The dice have symbols on it matching the wall paintings that serve as "spaces" for the board. If your dice match the spaces, you move forward a number of spaces equal to the number of symbols on the wall painting. Each player also has a special symbol, so that extra dice that match your symbol move you extra spaces.
It's a pretty luck based game with very little (if any, really) strategy. I won, and Rakesh stunk. We played that if you made the required symbols by your 1st or 2nd roll you can move and roll for the next painting, but that's not really in the rules. Though you could use your extra rolls remaining to try to match your special symbol with the unused dice.
Amanda said that it was "an exercise in frustration."
At least in a game of luck, Arman will be able to beat his dad 50% of the time instead of 75%. :)
| Carcassonne |
| Results | |||
| Player | Score | Place | First Time? |
| Rakesh | 134 | 1 | * |
| Amanda | 111 | 2 | * |
| Mike | 94 | 3 | |
| Karla | 71 | 4 | |
Notes: Next we played Carcassonne, which I hadn't played in a while, and I figured Rakesh and Amanda would like it. Rakesh had some trouble understand that green sides couldn't hook up with brown sides. "Why not?" was his favorite thing to say every turn.
I was stuck with roads all damned game while Amanda and Rakesh managed to get some nice citadel cities completed. Karla didn't get many city tiles either and encircled her own farmer, cutting her off from a 40 point field that kept my score above hers.
Rakesh also had two more good farmers, and Amanda had one, too. I made the mistake of claiming the first big farm and then playing a piece that enabled Rakesh to get in on it. I tried to place a late farmer and then connect it to the big field (and therefore claim sole majority of the field), but I only had 5 tiles to do it in and I kept getting roads.