Games Played - 6 January 2016

Into a new year and I'll see if I can make another go at writing a short weekly bit on the Wednesday sessions. We'll see how long that lasts. We had 13 in attendance for the first session of the year including Liam for the first time and John who's up from London on one of his occasional visits. We split 5,4,4.

On my table we played a couple of simpler games as Liam had indicated he was fairly new to boardgames. The first was Thurn & Taxis, which hasn't been played on Wednesday for sometime, although we did play at the last Saturday session. Liam seemed to pick this up well, but was caught out by the number of houses he had left at the end of the game. San Juan was a fight between my early Harbour and James's Chapel and demonstrates why I'm, not fond of the Chapel because it can compromise your ability to build unless you're constantly over the hand limit, whereas the Harbour constantly builds up points throughout the game every time you trade without losing any cards from your hand.

Kingdom of Kiralysag

Over on the 5 player table there was Istanbul and Splendor (played by 4 after Stan went). I would note that nobody entered the game time on the score sheet so I've taken the average HBG times for these games from plays recorded on Wednesdays last year.

Finally Scott had another prototype in play, The Kingdom of Kiralysag, the name is Hungarian which I suppose is unsurprising. I can't make any comments other than to note that the game did not come to a conclusion and there was much discussion going on at the end of the game.

Games results below

06/01/2016
Thurn & Taxis - 60 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	20
2	James S	18
3	John H	15
4	Liam	1
Istanbul - 90 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve W	6
2	Stan	5
3	Rob L	4
4	Steve K	4
5	Mark W	3
Splendor - 30 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve K	16
2	Rob L	13
3	Steve W	12
4	Mark W	11
Kingdom of Kiralysag - 150 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
NR	Steve H	-
NR	Dave F	-
NR	Scott	-
NR	Mike	-
San Juan (2e) - 60 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	39
2	James S	38
3	Liam	30
4	John H	28

January 2016 Stats Page