Trevor had surgery on his ankle to try to stop his hip from hurting. Next week he'll be getting a haircut because he is hungry. In the meantime, Eric and I came over to keep him company and play some games with him in his convalescence.
Trevor 51, Chris 48
While the title may suggest a light-hearted luckfest, Hey! That's My Fish! is in fact a combinatorial (that's fancy gamer talk for a game with no luck and no hidden information) in disguise. The board is set up randomly and players take turns moving their penguin pieces around the board and claiming fish tiles. Like Shear Panic, the theme and pieces are so cute that many players who might balk at such a dry game will dive right in.
Chris def. Trevor
Another combinatorial with a theme to make it more palatable, Hive isn't so much cute as creepy.
Chris (Researcher), Eric (Dispatcher), and Trevor (Medic) win on normal difficulty
What happens when GUI designers tackle board game design. Incredibly clean looking game, to the point of sterility for some, but I think it is quite cool. Most cooperative games have started adding some kind of traitor element, but Pandemic is unapologetically an exercise in group-think.
Trevor defeats Chris (Master: Eric)
Basically a completely open ended version of Mastermind, Zendo has one player arrange some colored pyramids in a configuration that abides by a rule that he has chosen, and then the other players submit arrangements to him and he tells them whether they fit his rule or not. It is played with the candy-colored translucent pyramids produced by Looney Labs for the Icehouse series of games, but there is really no reason that one couldn't play it with 5 paper-clips, 5 mismatched shoes, and a Wankel Rotary Engine.
Hey! That's My Fish!
Trevor 51, Chris 48
While the title may suggest a light-hearted luckfest, Hey! That's My Fish! is in fact a combinatorial (that's fancy gamer talk for a game with no luck and no hidden information) in disguise. The board is set up randomly and players take turns moving their penguin pieces around the board and claiming fish tiles. Like Shear Panic, the theme and pieces are so cute that many players who might balk at such a dry game will dive right in.
Hive
Another combinatorial with a theme to make it more palatable, Hive isn't so much cute as creepy.
Pandemic
What happens when GUI designers tackle board game design. Incredibly clean looking game, to the point of sterility for some, but I think it is quite cool. Most cooperative games have started adding some kind of traitor element, but Pandemic is unapologetically an exercise in group-think.
Zendo
Basically a completely open ended version of Mastermind, Zendo has one player arrange some colored pyramids in a configuration that abides by a rule that he has chosen, and then the other players submit arrangements to him and he tells them whether they fit his rule or not. It is played with the candy-colored translucent pyramids produced by Looney Labs for the Icehouse series of games, but there is really no reason that one couldn't play it with 5 paper-clips, 5 mismatched shoes, and a Wankel Rotary Engine.
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