This past week I tried a few games out solo while my wife worked late, played a high scoring game of Ticket to Ride and feasted on White Castle.
Monday – No Games
Tuesday – No Games
Wednesday – No Games
Thursday – Solo Play
- Deep Sea Adventure – Deep Sea Adventure is a push your luck type game. Having just received it, I was curious to see how it played out. It comes in a box not much larger than a deck of cards and is very nice looking with nice components. I played a four player game and I really pushed my luck. So much so that only two divers made it back to the sub out of all three rounds.Rachael and I played together the next night.
- Sail to India – I play a lot of two player games with Rachael so I wanted to finally break this one out as it is for 3-4 players. This is another small box game. There are 52 wooden cubes and about 25 cards. I set it up for all four players and tried roughly a different strategy for each one. It seemed fun but was a bit slow in the beginning with only two actions available in a given turn. It seems like it can ramp up rather quickly once players start to get some income. I will have to try this with actual opponents to see how it really plays.
Friday – Two Games Played
- 504 – I wanted to try using the same three modules in a different order so we started with the introductory game, world 123. After playing through 123 we switched it to 312. What a difference the positions make. I will write up a detailed session report in another post.
- Deep Sea Adventure – Rachael and I tried this as a two player game. We played three games. The first game she won by a large margin but I beat her out in game two. The third game she beat me again. I won’t blame the dice, but I did have some pretty bad rolls. I think this is a pretty cool little game.
Saturday – Ticket to Ride – This was a three player game with some rather high scoring. The winner got about 160 points but there was a slight flub in the early game. She thought you could take multiple actions per turn while the rules allow for only one. How much this really affected scoring I am not sure. If the extra turns were played I would have scored some additional points but I don’t think it was enough that the winner would have changed.
Sunday – Valentines Day – Or in our household, “Date Night at White Castle.”
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