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Shogun Spa
2011-10-17 18:38I guess daily life is less interesting than traveling life. I keep feeling that's a flaw.
Was at a games brunch today. Tofu had been cooked so as to be a lot like scrambled eggs. I played Bananagrams and Shogun for the first time each. Interesting, but Shogun is a pain to set up and tear down (more baggies for the pieces would help) and more directly competitive than is ideal for me. Might play again, but given a choice I'd probably opt for Race For the Galaxy or something. Came in first in the first round and second in the end, by not too much, out of four players. Shogun is a board game where you're taking territory, taxing it for treasure and rice at risk of revolt, building buildings and armies, and of course attacking each other, with a rather weird mechanic: drop soldier-cubes into a tower with slots and see what bounces out; cubes can get stuck in the tower.
Bananagrams was fun. Scrabble-like letter tiles, but no board; you start with 15 or so tiles, first person to use them all in a Scrabble-like word grid calls 'Peel' and everyone takes another letter, last person to Peel wins. I don't think I ever won, though I came close a few times, and had some nice words. Doubled an X with lox and detox, typically turned to qat and adze to deal with those troublesome letters.
'Spa' has a weird meaning in Boston. Near me are Oxford Spa, a deli and cafe, and Montrose Spa, a convenience store and deli.
I remind my readers of the use in Boston Chinese restaurants of "Peking ravioli" for potstickers, or what I grew up with as kwah-teh, or kuo teh.
I grumble again about street numbers: they go linearly from wherever the street starts, rather than jumping with a new block. Unavoidable I guess, since there's no grid to guide such jumps, so I'm complaining about the lack of grid and coordinates. There was an SF Muni map out at the games place, so I got wistful and nostalgic for both SF and the map (it's an awesome city map.)
(Originally posted at http://mindstalk.livejournal.com/300180.html because I forgot my protocol. 7 comments there.)
Was at a games brunch today. Tofu had been cooked so as to be a lot like scrambled eggs. I played Bananagrams and Shogun for the first time each. Interesting, but Shogun is a pain to set up and tear down (more baggies for the pieces would help) and more directly competitive than is ideal for me. Might play again, but given a choice I'd probably opt for Race For the Galaxy or something. Came in first in the first round and second in the end, by not too much, out of four players. Shogun is a board game where you're taking territory, taxing it for treasure and rice at risk of revolt, building buildings and armies, and of course attacking each other, with a rather weird mechanic: drop soldier-cubes into a tower with slots and see what bounces out; cubes can get stuck in the tower.
Bananagrams was fun. Scrabble-like letter tiles, but no board; you start with 15 or so tiles, first person to use them all in a Scrabble-like word grid calls 'Peel' and everyone takes another letter, last person to Peel wins. I don't think I ever won, though I came close a few times, and had some nice words. Doubled an X with lox and detox, typically turned to qat and adze to deal with those troublesome letters.
'Spa' has a weird meaning in Boston. Near me are Oxford Spa, a deli and cafe, and Montrose Spa, a convenience store and deli.
I remind my readers of the use in Boston Chinese restaurants of "Peking ravioli" for potstickers, or what I grew up with as kwah-teh, or kuo teh.
I grumble again about street numbers: they go linearly from wherever the street starts, rather than jumping with a new block. Unavoidable I guess, since there's no grid to guide such jumps, so I'm complaining about the lack of grid and coordinates. There was an SF Muni map out at the games place, so I got wistful and nostalgic for both SF and the map (it's an awesome city map.)
(Originally posted at http://mindstalk.livejournal.com/300180.html because I forgot my protocol. 7 comments there.)
