Annals of Events

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Played at Stephan's place. SKIMPA. Welcome to the 2026-27 season! We picked up where we left off by talking about AI, and hy sampling a new potato chips flavour: cheese and onions.

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Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig Stephan Reebs Stephan builds the two best castles: 75 points with Mike and 73 points with Alain.

73 points

Screw your neighbour Stephan Reebs Stephan and Ian trade places for the lead throughout the game, but Ian falters in the last round when he misreads a card (but it wouldn’t have made a difference, in the end). Stephan reached 100.
Flip 7 Kevin Caron Kevin gets a lot of second chances and he makes the most of them, winning with 220 points, ahead of Alain’s 156.

220 points

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ASKIMP. It’s the full crew for the last meeting of the 2025-26 HFG season. Alain contributes poutine bacon chips from Newfoundland, and we trade various dad jokes.

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Perudo Pascal Werlberger Two dice left against Stephan.
Codenames Alain Haché, Ian Stewart, Kevin Caron For the second time in a row, KIA trounce PMS 3-0.
Flip 7 Alain Haché Alain flips 7 at the end of the game and the 15-point bonus allows him to nudge ahead of Ian by 2 points, 219 to 217 for a come-from-behind win.
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APMKS. Alain regales us with tales of his trip to Japan. He also regales us with Tokyo banana kit kats. And then we play two Oink games he brought back.

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Insider Kevin Caron Kevin is the insider for more than half the rounds, and it works out well for him, s we almost never unveil him. He wins by one point over Pascal, Mike, and Alain.
Startups Mike Gerdov Mike has 25 points, just one more than Kevin.
Startups Alain Haché Kevin is second again, just 2 points behind Alain’s 28.

28 points

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KSIMP. AI will make our jobs obsolete.

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Faraway Pascal Werlberger Pascal is faraway in the lead with 71 points.
Forest Shuffle Stephan Reebs Stephan shuffles his way to the top with 67 points.
Tsuro Ian Stewart What Ian feels is not sorrow after his last minute win.
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PSK. Alain is traveling in Japan, Mike is in Barcelona for work, and Ian is celebrating his wedding anniversary, so it’s a reduced crew at the HFG tonight. We take advantage of this to try a new game that plays best with fewer players.

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Meadow Pascal Werlberger Don’t know if we all played well or all played badly. but we all played pretty much the same: 53 points for Kevin, 54 for Stéphan, and 56 for Pascal.
Love Letter Kevin Caron 5-4-4 … Kevin wins!