Gaming Friday

[quarrel]

It was crowded this time. Six of us played a large game of King of Tokyo waiting for even more folks to show up. I won by damage, thanks to a powerup that made my attacks hurt everyone else no matter where I was.

After that, we split into two groups. One played Montage, which needs two teams of two. It’s an elegant PvP crossword game. I like the mechanics but the competitive aspects don’t set right with me. The optimal strategy is to use your knowledge of your teammate and opponents to create clues that the former is more likely to pick up on than the latter. I don’t like competing and I feel bad winning a game due to something besides playing the game well.

The other group played Small World. They started at about the time I began eating my calzone, so I bowed out. (In hindsight I should have jumped in. I like that game.) While those games ran, I finished eating, then alternated between napping in the corner and playing rounds of the new free-to-play PvP Bookworm game on my work iPad.

The last half hour was occupied by two folks discussing the best way to program a weighted dice-rolling program that would generate 2d6 rolls with more evenness than truly random dice produce, for games like Settlers of Catan that don’t provide enough rolls for the rule of averages to smooth things out.

I put in a request for the host to borrow To Court the King from a friend for the next event. I want to see how it plays after hearing about it in a discussion of dice games in general.