bluffing, buffy, balloons

Yes, I know it's late, in that I expect to be playing games again tonight, but this is what we played at Rob's last week.

First up was Intrige. This was an interesting little game, though we had to work through a rules translation from a previous edition of the game which had some different nubmers in, but we worked it out. Essentially, each player is Mayor of a small town, and is willing to accept bribes from other players to put their relatives in the lucrative jobs. However, once all bribes are received, the Mayor has free choice as to which player gets the job, and which of the salaries they get. It's very cutthroat. Rob played outstadingly and won, Mark, I think came second with Brad a close third, leaving me in last place.

Next we played Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Game. The scenario we picked at random was The Mayor. Objective was for the good guys to destroy a particular artefact, while the Mayor tries to get it. If the Mayor gets it, he becomes mega evil demon thing, much harder to kill. If that should happen, good players have to kill the demon Mayor. The Evil player's objective is simple: kill the good guys.

Kim played the Mayor and his minions, Brad was Buffy, Mark was Xander and Oz, while I was Willow. Having misunderstood some rules (that a player can give an object to another player without it being the giving player's turn) that meant that the nice destroy artefact card that I had right from the start could easily have wiped out the special artefact, bringing an early close to the game, Good blundered on, and got killed off, one by one. The Mayor became evil thing, and it came down to a final showdown between him and Buffy. Ultimately, Buffy killed the thing, but with the rest of us dead, it was a phyrric victory.

Last up was Cloud Nine. I managed a lot better than last time, helped by starting with two wild cards. I like this game - it's a lot of fun and quite simple. I ended up winning, followed by Kim, Brad, Mark and Rob.
If you look at my list of games I've played this year on my Boardgames page, you'll also see I've recently played Cribbage (with my wife) and Pinochle (with some people in our apartment complex)