Game(s) Played:
Bohnanza
Dixit
For Sale
Player(s):
Cae Me
Eastlyn
Jimmy
Joanne
Joyce
Justin
Kenny
Louanna
Meng Chern
Michael
Pearly
Wai Yin
Xiu Mei
My cell group had planned to take advantage of the Hari Raya Haji public holiday (which fell on a Monday) to head down south to Malacca and spend one night at the villas in A’ Famosa just to relax and get to know one another better. The villas could accommodate 16 people per villa so we combined together with another two cell groups from the Young Adults of FGT.
Before we left, I looked through my shelf of games to pick some games that would not be quite so scary to new-gamers and came up with the following list:
1. Alien Frontiers
2. Bohnanza
3. Citadels
4. Dixit (borrowed copy)
5. For Sale
6. Hansa Teutonica
I had high hopes for Dixit and Bohnanza but brought along the others as back-ups. Looks like I didn’t need to worry after all.
Session – Bohnanza, Dixit & For Sale
Check-in time is at the strange hour of 4pm because most of the time the villas are empty and need to be thoroughly cleaned before the guest can check-in. We had already decided to head down to Batu Berendam to have dinner as a group at 7pm so we had some time to kill in between. JR, who is a big fan of Bohnanza (She calls it the “Beans Game”) pulled it out and introduced it to the girls with a little bit of rules explanation help from me. Wanting to give Dixit some mileage, I pulled it out and introduced it to Wai Yin, Michael and Louanna.
Bohnanza was a big hit but unfortunately ran overly long and they accidentally ended the game thinking that the game end condition was running through the deck once instead of three times. I suppose all things considered that was okay since we had to go out for dinner already anyways. Unfortunately there are no pics of this event on my camera as I was busy trying to teach two games at a go.
Dixit became very popular at our retreat this time. Most of them loved the art and particularly relished the challenge when there were many pictures that could match the Storyteller’s story or when no one could guess it and challenged the Storyteller to reveal the relevance of his story instead.
Coming back from dinner, I pulled out For Sale only to realize during the first play through that I am now missing a property card! Number 17 to be precise. I’ll have to spend some time trying to figure out when and where it could have gone to ground. Nevertheless, For Sale got continuous plays all the way until it was time for us to leave the next day! Which is somewhat surprising seeing as my own siblings didn’t think too much about the game. Nevertheless I’m glad it worked out as the game is short (we managed ten minute games towards the end) and highly replayable, if only I could find that durned Property No. 17, think it was the yatch property.
Here we find that women are big property tycoons, I forget who won but the big smile on JR’s face could probably means it was her
Xiu Mei was a pretty good dealer and here you can see Joanne upping the ante, she seemed game for almost anything most of the time
We substituted the missing No. 17 with a Money Card, that’s a terrible draw though, someone must not have shuffled properly :P
As I mentioned, Dixit was extremely popular and I think became a firm favourite of Wai Yin’s. So much so that when we were wondering why one particular breakfast table had gone back to the villa so early after breakfast, we found them playing Dixit at the Villa instead. Looks like I’ll have to think about investing in my own copy of it as well.
This is the guilty breakfast table that ran off to breakfast early and rushed back once they were done haha
I noticed Kenny spent a lot of time standing up, you know you got a winner when the Players don’t mind standing up to win the game
Another sure sign a game is a winner is when there are lots of smiles around the table
I couldn’t resist, here’s one of Kenny standing up again
Results Of Game
Bohnanza
I don’t know who won Bohnanza actually but let’s call everyone a winner since they technically didn’t play the game to its intended finish.
Dixit
Somehow I keep remembering that Wai Yin & Xiu Mei did exceptionally well in Dixit but I wasn’t playing in the last few games of the second day so can’t be sure who else won at it.
For Sale
For Sale saw many different winners throughout its many, many games but the most calculative award goes to Meng Chern, Cae Me and Xiu Mei I think haha. Congratulations guy and girls.
My biggest takeaway? Most of them knew that I am into boardgames as a hobby before this but actually thought I was playing stuff like this:
This board is very, very cool by the way
There are great Ameritrash games out there some of which I wouldn’t mind spending the necessary half a day to get through a single game but to be fair, these sorts of games aren’t exactly what we would call “light games” and probably wouldn’t appeal to your average non-gaming person. So I’m glad that at least, I could share some of the joys of my hobby and how easily accessible it is. Spread the love, boardgamers!
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