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 Friday, October 20, 2006
I'm sitting here at the Ravensburger booth playing Arkadia, a new game that recycles the tower pieces from Torres. We are playing 2-player which I suspect isn't ideal, but the game is pretty nice. On a turn you either build a new building or place workers to surround buildings on the board. Surrounding a building earns one of 4 different colored tokens (and likely multiple of them) that can then be cashed in later for gold. Players trigger their own personal scoring rounds and the end of a turn, but each player only has 4 in the game. As the game progresses players have the ability to influence the value of the different colors by placing a tower (the Torres bit) in the center, usually covering up another color. This has the effect of increasing the value of one color while decreasing another. So it is a game with a bit of geometry (building tiles and surrounding with workers) and a bit of a market system. Pretty nice and I think I'll pick it up.
posted on Friday, October 20, 2006 7:23:56 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [1]
Friday, October 20, 2006 12:43:13 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I've said it before and I'll say it again - please post more! I know you're all working/playing so hard, you can barely find a minute to sit down. But seriously. You owe it to those of us left behind (so sad). It's harder than I thought to be home while you're all there. I have such vivid memories from last year - I can almost taste the frickadelle. So once again, if you love us (and I know you do), post, post, post. Gaming stuff is good, but we want personal stuff too. Did that bar have the dice rolling at the end of the meal again? Have you been to the diner down the street (the one with the waitress that wanted to keep Matthew)? Have you been bowling? Are you finding space to game late into the evening? Who can't sleep becuase their roommate snores? Who's going to get in trouble with their significant other for the most $$ spent on games? Did Ben have to go into a lingerie store to ask directions this year? Inquiring minds want to know...
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