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PSAK. Melissa's absence limits Kevin's movements, so we meet at his place. Mike is also absent, smooching with his bosses from Rhode Island. We say hi to Goomba. Stephan admires Kevin's big TV and starts thinking about replacing his 20-yr-old one.
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Tsuro |
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Elizabeth wants to play Tsuro with us. She's the first one to go out but it is a self-inflicted exit. Stephan's is the last man standing with three squares left. |
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Kevin quickly takes the lead and is first to 200 by a wide margin. He was never in danger. |
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Century: Spice Road |
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Stephan plays the "buy cheap cities to be the first to five cities and end the game quickly" strategy. He wins a squeaker: 55 points for him, 54 for Pascal, and 53 for Kevin. |
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Azul |
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Alain leaves early and misses out on this classic game. Pascal fills his board in a beautiful and systematic way and his 81 points are more than 20 points ahead of Stephan in second place. |
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PSMK. After a relatively short (by our standards) discussion about how AI will replace us all soon, we play a game last played 4 years ago.
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Concordia |
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Everybody remembers the intricacies of the game fairly equally, as evidenced by the tight score at the top: 122 points for Pascal. 121 for Mike, and 120 for Stéphan. Kevin didn’t get the cards he needed in the endspiel and he trailed behind with 99 points. |
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PAMS. We talk about physics: radon and the Voyager mission. Then we play a game best for 4 people.
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Stone Age |
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Everybody plasy well and we all end up within at most 6 points of each other: Stephan trails at 191 points, Mike and Alain are tied at 194, and Pascal wins with 197.
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MASKP. We talk about the devastation of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica, and how AI will render all or our jobs irrelevant. So for Halloween the House of Fun and Games is transforming itself into the House of Despair and Games. In keeping with the news, we play a game of Category 5 and then a game of Jamaica.
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Category 5 |
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You know who can handle Melissa? Kevin can! He wins with 29 points at the end of four rounds. |
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Jamaica |
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Stephan takes advantage of a 5-6 roll to do a mad dash for the finish line, and he’s the only one who gets past the -5 red line. He wins with 24 points. |
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KAMPS. In honour of Stephan`s 64th birthday (two days ago), Mike brings a cherry pie and Alain donates a Bluetooth speaker to the HFG. Everyone is relieved to learn that the HFG is radon-free (after all those years on going there every Wednesday night).
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Perudo |
Mike Gerdov
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Two dice left for Mike, who is hoping to start a Perudo winning streak. |
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Cryptid |
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There is lightning outside (unusually for late October) and there is lightning on the Cryptid box. Stephan guesses correctly on the first try of the game, after only three rounds. |
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Tsuro |
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Only one corner square left, covered by the dragon tile, with Pascal's token standly proudly next to it.
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