Not content with just the previous evening's game, I went to Julian & Ester's for some more gaming on Friday evening. We first played a quick game of Kingsburg, which I really like, but J & E weren't as keen. I won by a clear margin.
Next we played the combined game of Zooloretto & Aquaretto which we had spoken about trying since I had the former & they had the latter. I had wondered whether it would feel like too much to contend with since this is effectively two games as one. Surprisingly, it works quite well - the rules remains the same for Zooloretto under its rules & Aquaretto under its rules, but when you place tiles in the trucks at least one truck need to be filled with Z tiles & another with A tiles. Also, you cannot put Z tiles with A tiles (have you noticed I'm fed up with typing the same names already?!) so there is an extra element of considering which tiles you want to place & there can be difficult decisions when more than one truck has tiles you'd really like & which you'd need most.
The game did last a long time but we enjoyed it & I did not end my 100% losing record to Zooloretto/Aquaretto to them - Ester won on 53pts, Julian had 51pts & I had 47pts.
We then got St Petersburg out for J&E to try, but it didn't seem to be going down well & we agreed to switch to something else. So we had a couple of games of Felix:The Cat In The Sack. This is a fun & quick game of blind-bidding & has some screwage factor involved. The three of us (plus a dummy 4th player) gets a hand of 10 cards (one is removed at random before the start) with cats, dogs & a rabbit. There are 7 cats with points of 15, 11, 8, 5, 3, -5 & -8, one rabbit with 0 points & two dogs (used to scare away cats). Each round, all players choose a card (random for the dummy) to put face-down in a row & the first one is put face up. The players then bid to buy the whole row; when the first player passes, he/she takes their bid back & gets 4 more coins. The 2nd card in line is then turned face-up & the remaining two players bid - the person who passes also takes their bid back & gets 6 coins. The winner pays his/her bid to the bank & turns the two face-down card up - if a Big dog has been played, it scares away the highest value cat. If a Small dog is played, it scares away the biggest negative (or lowest positive) valued cats; if there are two or more dogs, they all cancel each other out. The game proceeds for 9 Rounds in total & the winner is the one with the most points & money remaining combined. I won one & Ester won the 2nd.
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