Big City, Goa and Ra

Yesterday we played board games with some friends. We played Big City, Goa and Ra.

Big City is more or less the board game version of Sim City. Each player takes turns to develop the city, and his/her buildings are scored with respect to their location and neighborhood. A quick and nice game.

Goa, on the other hand, is a long and painful game. It is set in the 16^th century. You are in the business of spice trade, and you are trying to found colonies and plantations in India. There are many different things in the game: the auction, the ships, the spices, the colonies, the colonists, the ducats, etc etc. It is a bit too complex for me.

Ra is an auction game set in ancient Eygpt. You get tiles from auctions, and different combination of tiles gives you different scores. It tends to be a bit confusing for first-time players. But since this is my second time playing Ra, I did alright :)