Another year, another Euroquest on the books. It's the only gaming tournament I participate in, so I was there for pretty much the duration & participated in as many tournaments as I could. Skipped the wild card this time, a whopping two Can't Stop games both of which were horrid, & only a few 'Play to Win' games, I played but didn't win. Also ( Read more... )

Home now from Euroquest, four days of games and serious humbling and social graces or not, as the case sometimes was. Besides the Can't Stop and Lost Cities wins Friday, I won exactly one game - a Stone Age match Friday afternoon. That was it for me and winning. After Thursday, I couldn't win a Wild Card game for anything and after Friday I couldn' ( Read more... )

Yes, I did decide to get up bizarrely early today, but not as much as I might have. I passed on Target's sale in favor of sleeping another hour and going to less insane stores (I've had poor experiences at Target on BF). Kmart was a breeze, except that most of the clothes I hoped to get for my mother weren't there or weren't in her size. Got a ( Read more... )

As in, second in Ticket to Ride (lost by 4 points), second in Stone Age (lost by 2 points), second in Settlers of Cataan, two seconds in Can't Stop and a second in a new game, Isla Dorada. I seem to have had a wee bit of a pattern today. Losing TTR stung, but the others were plusses. Also learned 3 4 new games (bought one; entered a drawing for one ( Read more... )