TCEP 11 Update #4

Learned Cartagena tonight -- this is a good game for adults and kids to play together. The rules are pretty simple but strategy can be complicated, especially with the maximum number of players.

Also played Metro, a fun geometry game using names of Paris subway stations as a vague real-world touchpoint. But it's really just an abstract game. Then again, I like abstract games.

TCEP 11 Update #5

Overall, I didn't lose money in the late-night sessions this year. (Though, for the first time, Richard apparently did.) And there's half a dozen people who will probably never play Omaha Hold-'em with me *or* Tyler again...

TCEP 11 Wrapup

For the final game I played Early American Chrononauts for the first time. Tony won the game in a typical Looney Labs style ending: there were 2 players between me and Tony, the player to my left changed Tony's game identity and thus his winning conditions, and then the player to Tony's right made a change to the timeline that finished Tony's *NEW* winning conditions. Tony was next up, so he won the game.

Given the shape I'm in, I had about as good a time as I could have expected at TCEP. Thanks to everyone who participated, and especially to those who helped keep the convetion running behind the scenes. I'm afraid I was less help in that regard than I'd like to have been this time, but I really had no brainpower to speak of this weekend.