urbaerDrove up to #bordercon yesterday, arriving at around 4.
Played
- Maglev Metro *
- Cat in the Box
- Condottiere *
- nana *
- Resistance: Avalon
- Crossing
- Startups *
* New to me
Played Maglev Metro - good, the see through tiles are interesting. We played on the easier map, so I'm not sure if the other map would be more interesting. Not a ge I'm rushing out to buy but would be open to playing the other map.
Condottiere - Looks like a dudes on a map but is an area control/ auction thing (kind of). Good, I suck at it. I kind of wanted it to be a little more wild? Like there are special cards that can mess with the outcome but I wish they were even more impactful.
nana - I went to pick this up so many times while in Japan and avoided it based on reviews. It's not much of a game and the memory requirements are too much.
You're trying to find three of the same card and on your turn you reveal a card from either the lowest or highest from someone's hand or on of the cards in the middle of the board. Your turn ends when you reveal three of the same card (in which case you get those into your scoring pile) or you reveal two different cards (you get nothing)
Startups - Terrible rulebook for what is a simple ruleset (not helped by learning it at 1am/. I really liked it and it might become a 'lets play a single round of this whole we wait for other players" game. I kept taking the monopoly tokens early, but it panned out coming equal first by the end of the game. Would be good to play while well rested.
Grayson Page@urbaer what player count for Startups?
@gpage was 6. Keen to see how it plays at lower
@urbaer Here is a screenshot of my notes on player counts from my BGG entry. I prefer it at 4, but often teach it at 3 if possible. It's a cute game that shifts from one question to another as you add players.
I think it's one of Oink's better small box games.