5/2 Recap

Friday Night Dice's May 2nd Session was one of record breaking numbers!

We had FIFTEEN people show up!  Not too shabby only two months into existence...

Lee, Beth, Brian, Annemarie, Andrew, Amy, Dana, David, Shelley, Steven, Diana, Lucas, Dan, John, and Lee (bonus Lee - not me) all showed up!

A wide variety of games were played.

The night began with King of Tokyo being taught to and played by Shelley, Beth, Dana, and David with Beth teaching as well as winning - two games in a row if I'm not mistaken.

Dan, Lucas, and myself played Ticket to Ride: India and had an enjoyable time with the map, which was relatively new to all of us.  I won that one by sheer volume of ticket completion.

The rest of the crew played a couple of games of What The Food, a somewhat recent Kickstarter release.

After a couple hours of playing those games we switched to different ones!



Beth taught Dan and Lucas Castles of Burgundy, one of the night's featured games.  It was well enjoyed by all, particularly Lucas.  Unfortunately the guys had to leave before finishing, but I believe Beth held the lead at the end. Again she won a game she taught - how convenient.

David, Brian, Andrew, and Lee (not me) played Smash Up! twice in a row.  This was a new addition to Brian's library and is apparently an area of control/deck builder.  It somehow involved Dinosaur Robots, so that automatically makes it cool.

The rest of the girls played a round of group of solitaire while this was happening.  I realize that sounds like an oxymoron, so just enjoy the picture of the robot-martian-dinosaur to the right and don't think about it.



Finally, Tales of the Arabian Nights was enjoyed by Amy, John, Dana, Diana, and myself.  It was everyone's first time playing so I just was full-time narrator. Tales is a storytelling game similar to the choose-your-own-adventure books of years past.  During our game, Diana's character was married and quickly widowed in a land where the surviving spouse is buried with the corpse.  She escaped but was crippled.  Amy was also crippled.  So was John.  We had a lot of cripplings.  Dana won, probably in large part due to not being crippled.  It was fun.

The night ended with a couple of rounds of Loopin' Louie, the children's classic.

Next FND we will have two featured games - both a lighter game for 'non-gamers' and a more serious strategy game.

And hopefully we will have even more people!