2005/11/27

Games, games and games

During the four-day weekend of thanksgiving, we spent three nights playing games. We played St. Petersburg, Attika, Tickets to Ride and Shadows Over Camelot.

My favorite out of all these is St. Petersburg. The lack of resources means that you can to plan carefully, and it is very satsifactory when you finally build that expensively card that you've been saving up for.

Tickets to Ride was great too. The rules are simple, but the hidden tickets make the game unpredictable and interesting.

At first we liked Attika quite a bit, until we played one game when there was so much blocking that the only way to win was to build all the buildings. That made the game a bit of a drag.

Shadows Over Camelot is quite different from the others since it is a co-operative game. The fact that every player (except the traitor) is aiming for a common goal diluted the game control a bit, and I ended up wish that I brought a book while I was waiting for my turn.

All in all, we had a great weekend of games :)