Jambo.. again?? I'm not sure why we end up playing Jambo all the time, actually I do.. it's because HL thinks it's the shortest game. HB isn't convinced that's 100% true, but he likes to pick his battles with HL. Anyway, HB prefaced this game of Jambo by telling HL that he was going to attack her full force. Normally, HB likes to pick a strategy that's less confrontational in order to keep the peace. Jambo allows players to do so with its cool re-draw mechanism, action for money mechanism, and different utility choices.
This time neither player wanted to pony up the 6 money to place the first market extender so we played the entire game with the starting market. HL quickly got a well, throne, and a boat, and HB had supplies. He quickly decided that supplies would be too helpful to HL with her boat so he got rid of that. Because of the small markets of both players, this game took longer than normal. Both players were patient and used money frugally. HL used a timely parrot and cheetah (to steal a ware card), and also had guards to stop a crocodile and an elephant. She also paid up 6 for 2 salts when arabian merchant was played by HB. HB ended up using his favorite card, weapons to slowly accumulate money, and leopard to get the wares he needed. He ended up using the last turn trick to win the game. HL ended with 63, but HB was able to go from 57 to 69 on the last turn.
Ticket to Ride Marklin (1)
Ticket to Ride - Marklin, I believe is HL's favorite game. I'll get confirmation on that in the near future. There's 2 reasons why we havent played it in a while. 1.) We played it 4 times in one day a few days before I started this weblog 2.) HB usually doesn't like to play because HL can read his mind and she's mean. For those of you who know TTR, but are not familiar with Marklin, the biggest differences are that Marklin has passengers (which adds a ton of strategic depth making Marklin a notch heavier than a gateway game). There are no bridges, tunnels, or stations. The most completed tickets, not the longest track, gets the end game bonus +10. I like all these changes and that's probably why I chose to get Marklin over the other sets. Oh yea, Marklin is also centered in Germany, which I guess makes it educational. I just think it's annoying because I still haven't learned the map well enough to know where all the cities are without staring at it for like 10 minutes.
HL started out keeping 2 long tickets. HB kept a short and long and quickly added two more shorts. As I stated in the intro. HL blocked HB, not once, but twice. HB knows that HL will try to block him so he tries to make her use at least 3 track to block. This time HL was up to the challenge blocking with a 3 and 4 track. HB also had a chance to block HL, but he didn't take it. Afterwards, he pretended that he was being nice, but in reality he actually didn't see it. HL was able to block and complete her tickets pretty quickly, and then she moved on to moving her passengers for big points while HB scrambled to complete his tickets. HB eventually completed his tickets, used up his trains, and was able to move 2 of his passengers for small points. He was hoping that his extra completed tickets and end game bonus would give him a comeback victory, but it wasn't enough because HL had 2 relatively big tickets. In a very high scoring game. HL defeated HB 154 -146. I apologize that I wasn't more specific about which tracks turned the game, but like I said before, I still haven't really learned the map that well. They are just a bunch of dots and colors to me.
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