Ilise's: Stoped by Ilise's home duing my visit to Boston. It wasn't too long before Ilise pushed for a game. John didn't have a good game, his numbers just didn't roll. I got off to fast start getting to eight points while both Ilise and John were struggling to get to four. My lucky soured and Ilise came charging to catch up. Ilise stole my longest road and merchant from me and built two metros.
Ilise (13), Me (8), John (4)

Annette's: Annette decided to throw a game night for me. They showed how much they missed me in the first round by playing two hideouts on my sets. They didn't go any easier on me on the following rounds.
Chet (29), Annette (22), Holly (20), Me (18)

Annette's: We got the whole group together for a big game of bluff. Chet out went out early so he could pick up the pizza. When Dimitri got knocked out, he left to get more Alcohol for the Mudslides. Annette and I got knock out on an exact bid. That left Holly and Christine, each with one die. Christine who had never played before never had a chance against holly. Note except for one turn no one every choose the Artist.
Holly, Christine, Annette, Me, Christine K, Matt, Dimitri, Holly, Chet

Annette's: Next up was a quick game of Hick Hack while we waited for Dimitri and Chet to return. Boy I just didn't have any luck in this game! Most of my chickens got eaten and those that didn't usually got their asses kicked by other chickens.
Christine K (38), Christine (36), Annette (36), Matt (27), Holly (27), Me (23)

Annette's: This is one of Annette's favorite games. We added the Artist and made the end condition seven districts in order to play with eight players. Both Christine were new to the game so I went over the rules for them. Christine K seem really confused. While the veterans of the game battled each other, the newbies went unnoticed till it was too late to stop them. Annette was the unlucky one in this game, somehow always attracting the thief or the assassin's blade.
Christine (22), Christine K (16), Me (17), Matt (14), Holly (11), Dimitri (9), Chet (8), Annette (6)

Annette's: Played three hands of 6 Nimmt. Holly scored a new one round record of 45 points.
Chet (14), Me (23), Christine K (24), Matt (41), Annette (47), Christine (74), Holly (74)

Annette's: For some odd reason there was a serious avoidance of breaking up the group into two games. Since the max for this game was seven I decided that I would team up with Christine. This was a good thing since Christine was pretty close to full on the learn new game tank. I really enjoyed this game cause it was not one of those donation fest that I've played recently.
Chet (16), Matt (14), Holly (14), Christine/Me (14), Annette (11), Christine K (9), Dimitri (9)

Annette's: We randomly split into teams of two for this game. Holly and Christine K got off to a great start game four slice of the pie before any of us could get one slice. They stalled slipping up on what I thought were easy questions. Of course they probably thought same about the questions that Matt and I missed. Who would have thought that knowledge about the Hanta Virus would coming in handy.
Me/Matt (6), Dimitri/Annette (5), Holly/Christine K (5), Christine/Chett (3)

SOG: The great thing about Boston is that just about every night there is a game night somewhere. I was the first to show up at Chris's house. Chris cooked some pizza and was nice enough to share half of it with me. While we were dining, Andrew arrive followed by Chip and Sarah. They started a game of San Juan. Since I ate faster than Chris, I got to join the game. I built the acqueduct and the gold mine to get extra cards during the game. My strategy was to build lots of plantations and the guild hall, in the hope of ending the game quickly. Somehow Andrew and Sarah really cranked out the building. They were using some poorhouse and other building combo that gave them extra cards during building phase. Chip and I were very behind in the scoring.
Andrew, Sarah, Chip, Me

SOG: Before I left Reno for my business trip I go John to piggy a couple of games on his game order, one of them was Fresh Fish. When I saw that Josh had brought to SOG night, I push for it. Josh went over the rules and boy that expropriation rule is a toughie and it such a key rule to know for placing your reservation markers. Yep Josh made it look so simple.
Josh (5), Andrew (8), Me (17)

SOG: The rest of the crew was still involved with a marathon game of Eurphat and Tigris. Josh and Andrew want to play Members Only, not one of my favorites but how could I refuse. I love Knizia games but this one has been hard to appreciate. I like to describe this one as trying to bet on the weather. As you can see in my result I didn't do well.
Josh (28), Andrew (26), Me (17)

SOG:
Andrew (62), Me (48), Chris (32), Josh (31)

SOG:
Andrew (57), Josh (43), Chris (9), Stacy (4), Me (-1), Esa (-16)

SOG:
Chris (131), Josh (168), Me (131)

Dimitri's:
Me (49), Steve (47), Dimitri (32)

Dimitri's:
Me (416), Dimitri (404), Steve (229), Christine K (291)

Dimitri's: Dimitri (170), Christine (163), Me (142), Steve (141)

Dimitri's:
Me (11), Steve (7-13), Dimitri (7-11)

John's:
Me (13), John (6), Penii (4)

John's:
John (13), Penii (7), Me (6)

John's:
John (148), Penii (120), James (110), Johnny (93), Me (87)

Joe's: I attended Joe's monthly poker game. I did well considering that I spent five hours playing poker and only lost a buck forty. They are my kind of players. As the game was breaking up Joe suggested closing out the night with a regular game. It appears that didn't get enough gambling out of our system because we selected another game that involved betting. Yves had not played before, so Joe went over the rules. I had to correct them on the end game condition. They were using the rules from the latest version, Colossus Arena. I usually place my secret bet during my first turn but this time I waited until my second turn. It helped a bit since I placed my bet on a creature that someone else was supporting. Yves was definitely missing certain aspect of the game. Several times I gave her the opportunity of placing the death blow to a creature. I got the final creature placement, knocking out Joe's 3 point bet. Looks like I made the right kill.
Me (11), Joe (9), Yves (7), Nate (4)

BGoR:
Bruce (294), Me (290), TC (260), Mike (222), Nate (168)

BGoR:
TC (one of each gem), Me, Mike, Nate, Rolf

BGoR:
Nate (1), Joe, Rolf, TC (2), Mike (3) Me (4)

BGoR:
Me (7), Joe (22), Nate (30), Mike (34), TC (37)

BGoR:
Cody (90), Mike (85), Me (71), Jared (70), Jake (-75)

BGoR: Joel announced that he would be spending his birthday at Hero's, a local game shop. John and I decided to join him for a game during our lunch time. Puerto Rico was the game of choice.
Starting order John, Me, Joel
I continued to experiment with the double market strategy. Instead of buying an office, I built four of the five products. This gave me the flexible of having product to trade and ship. I rarerly suffered spoilage and I sold a lot of Tobacco. Flushed with money I was able to build three large buildings. Needless to say and I handily won.
Me (50), John (37), Joel (28)

John's: Frank had brought an old classic that he used to play in college. He thought highly of it, after a few turns I did not. This is a basic roll dice and move your token. You only pay 1000 bucks if you move over own or the bank's rail. If you move over someone else rail you have to pay 5000. Once you reach your destination you're allow to buy a poperty or upgrade your train. What annoyed me about this game was you had no control over your destination which was determined a double table lookup. Several time I had to go to the Northeast where I had no rail presence. Johnny experience the same thing. I also thought that the end game was lame. When determining a player's next destination if a player has 200k he could declare intention of wining. At that point he must race back to his home city. If another player passes over his token, he loses his declaration and give 50k to the token's owner. How random. John had declared but Johnny zipped over him, twice!! Frank was using his experience waited until he had a run that took him near to his hometown before declaring.
Frank (235), John (251), Me (165), Johnny (133)

John's: James had been jonesin' to play this game since I acquired it. He was like a little pit bull that just wouldn't give up this time. John was drain by Rail Baron so he wasn't interested but Frank was game. I was lucky with my encounters, getting some wimpy creatures and some very benifical events (goldwise). Frank on the other hand encountered the strongest green event on his first attempt. He ran away but the setback hurt him in the long run. Using the money acquired thru the events, I traveled to several towns, picking up weapons and followers. Having followers really aided in defeating the dragons. Once the first dragon is defeated, the rest become pretty easy kill.
Me "Red Scorpion" (3), James "Varikas the Dead" (1), Frank "Mad Carthos"

John's: I guess the extra long games really pooped everyone. Only Penii and John willing to play one more game. THis time the rolls went Penii's way. She was really dominated the game, It only appeared close cause John was able to get the longest road before Penii polished us off.
Penii (10), John (8), Me (5)

BGoR: We had a new player attend our group and he plays Puerto Rico and Catan. He had never played this one though. We got in two hands of Trendy before critical mass. Harry liked it and figures his wife would too.
Harry (78), Me (76),John (65), Nate (61)

BGoR: The other group started a game of Medina and we started a game of San Juan. Went over the rules for everybody. John V was being really annoying, I can't believe I recommended him to work for my company. The game was pretty close with everyone having at least 11 buildings at the end of the game. I was able to use the crane effectively to build the Triumphal Arch for a 6 point bonus. Bruce built the Guild hall to get a big 10 point bonus. Harry built the palace but didn't enough big buildings to make use of the 25% bonus.
Bruce (32), Me (30), John (26), Harry (23)

BGoR: The intriguing part of this game continues to be my developing methodoloy for processing the information. Joe hit gold this time.
Joe, Nate, TC, Me

BGoR: With the Medina game still going we decided to play Drahtseilakt until the others were ready to start another game. Finally I think this game is clicking with me. I avoided geting any points during the first two rounds and had zero points until the last card in the third. We stopped after the third hand because the others had finished playing their monster game of Medina.
Me, Joe (5), Josh (19), Nate (25), TC (27)

BGoR: It's been a while since I've played ESR so I was excited. This was Andrew's first play so he made some really bad choices. First round I concentrated in getting a majority in yellow and contracts while everyone battle for red control, this gave me the early lead. I almost succeded in doing the same strategy in the second round, TC got the contracts. In the final round I picked up the "each majority is +4" and "+8 for green majority" bonus cards. I was almost successful in getting yellow again but someone tied it up in the final hand. I did succeed in getting majority in green for the big points and victory.
Me (69), TC (58), Rolf (57), Nate (52), Andrew (47)

BGoR: I'm really liking this game with my "take that" approach but I guess the game tends toward that strategy. This time I really played the role of the dick. This time I would sucker them onto a train by placing one my tokens, a one naturally. After they had committed I would whack'em with big negatives. The best trick of the game was when they filled up a tain without me. I used an action to send it away empty. Ha ha ha.
Me (328), TC (291), Andrew (277), Nate (232), Rolf (194)

Home:
John V 6

Home:
Scenario 1: Me Allies (4), John V Axis(2)
Scenario 2: Me Axis (4), John V Allies(2)

Home:
Me (33), Joe (31), John V (23)

Home:
Jared (74), Joe (72), Me (55)

Home:
Jared (4250), John T (3765), Nate (3175), Joe (2685), Me (2665)

Home:
Joe, Bruce, Me

Home:
Me (26), Joe (25), Bruce (18)

Home:
Joe, Me, Bruce, John

Home:
Me (65), Joe (57), Bruce (52), John (48), Ann (45),

Home:
John (10), Joe (7), Penii (6), Me (6), James (5)

Home:
Joe (49), Me (47), John (43), James (29)