Annals of Events

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Played at Stephan's place. SKI MAP. We play Perudo and then Alain leaves for hockey, at which point we go for Power Grid, in "honour" of the recent icestorm and all the power outages it created.

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Perudo Pascal Werlberger Pascal's 5 beats Stephan's 2 in the final showdown.
Power Grid Stephan Reebs Stephan steals the resources Pascal needs in the last round, and wins with 16 cities powered.

5

Played at Stephan's place. The icestorm robs the HFG of power for 24h, but power is restored 1 h before we are due to meet, enough time to warm up the house. However, some members are still without power, so attendance is limited to Stephan, Mike and Pascal.

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Five tribes Stephan Reebs Stephan teaches a new game, and once again (unfair advantage!) wins the inaugural game, only 5 points ahead of Pascal (132 vs 127).
Tsuro Stephan Reebs Pascal and Mike both follow the edge, and pay the price as Stephan grabs the center and isolates them.
Tsuro Stephan Reebs Pascal could have tied on the last available square, but he has no option with the tic-tac-toe tile but to go straight out.

2

Played at Stephan's place. PSIMK. We talk about cars, now that Stephan has acquired a new Subaru Crosstrek, joining Mike in the Subaru family.

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Perudo Pascal Werlberger Pascal wins the one-vs-one face-off against Kevin. With 15 dice left, poor Mike had two dice, both of them aces; he called three aces, got dudoed by Stephan, and lost because nobody else had aces!
Balderdash Stephan Reebs Stephan benefits from a timely double score, and wins by four points ahead of Mike.

3

Played at Stephan's place. PIMSCK. We play two fun party games.

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Codenames Carlo-Antonio Marin, Kevin Caron, Pascal Werlberger With Kevin at the helm.
Codenames Ian Stewart, Mike Gerdov, Stephan Reebs With Mike at the helm.
Codenames Carlo-Antonio Marin, Kevin Caron, Pascal Werlberger With Carlo at the helm. First time he played this game,and he caught on pretty quick.
A fake artist goes to New York Carlo-Antonio Marin One point more than a whole bunch of people. Truly beautiful drawings of a toaster, the Mona Lisa, a castle, the Wizard of Oz, a drumset, and a submarine.

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Played at Stephan's place. PAMKS. We welcome the new year with new games!

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Karuba Mike Gerdov Mike is the inaugural winner of this new game with 26 points. Has his recent trip to Mexico trained him to find efficient paths in jungles?

26 points

A fake artist goes to New York Stephan Reebs Insects, sports (twice), modes of transportation, and corporate logos. Stephan ends up with one more point than everybody else.
Perudo Stephan Reebs Stephan's two dice both survive against Kevin's three dice in the final showdown.
Karuba Pascal Werlberger Pascal gets the same score as in the first game (21) but this time it is enough to win.