boardgames

Was just about to post this myself ;-)

GF and I played a round of Lost Cities, one of our go to games. It's always fascinating to see how each game develops and agonizing to decide which colors to throw away and which ones to commit to. This was a hugely close game 199 vs 224. The last round we basically didn't compete in ANY color. Each of us just kept drawing almost all cards of our respective color. She a bit more than me but what I lacked in value cards I made up in multipliers and managed to eek out a single point more than her.

At the weekly board gaming session my group played the last chapter of Aeon's End Legacy 2 (second attempt). I wasn't present for their first attempt and they really hyped up that last battle. But we got into it with a nice combo of characters. Despite some painful early losses of expensive cards our main damage dealers were able to power up while I and another geared up for support. At the midpoint it looked pretty bleak for a moment but a turn of 28 damage later things had cleared up very well. At that point I was pretty confident we would be able to exhaust the nemesis draw pile which we were. We didn't expect that we would also have to whittle down the nemesis to zero but it turned out to not be much of an issue.

Then on Wednesday my GF's brother came over for pizza and board games and we played Minecraft: Builders and Biomes. Just like last time I had the worst luck in my attempts to fight monsters. Must have wasted something around 10 actions drawing basically just potatoes. As such, while my building was pretty efficient my GF managed to sneak past me to victory. Her brother came in third (he really focused on collecting blocks hoping they would we worth something at the end - despite my assurances they would not shrug) but really liked the game and requested we bring it over when we visit the next time.