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IPSAMK. Ian wears a stylish Christmas T-shirt. Mike discloses that Root is healthy again. Kevin brings a beer. Alain mentions an attempt to digitally model the brain. Pascal arrives uncharacteristically late (having a newborn at home). Stephan hosts. By the way, congratulations to Alain for his draw in Jean Desforges's chess simultaneous last Thursday.
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Condottiere |
Ian Stewart, Stephan Reebs
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Sharper tactics than last week. We fill the board, and Ian and Stephan share the victory with four territories each. |
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Taj Mahal |
Mike Gerdov
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Alain must go shopping, leaving us with the right number of players to tackle a never-played-before game: Taj Mahal. For brevity's sake we cut it short to nine rounds rather than the prescribed 12, and after a close-fought battle Mike emerges victorious with 24 points. |
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MAPSKI. Whiskey fest was a success last week end. Will tomorrow night's chess simultaneous against Jean Desforges also be a success, with Alain and Mike defending the honour of the HFG? Stephan has another engagement that night (a wine and cheese organised by the biology students).
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Condottiere |
Kevin Caron
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Kevin wins the inaugural game of Condottiere pretty fast, with three adjacent territories. |
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Condottiere |
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Mike must leave to take care of Root, who got bitten by a vole he was playing with. Meanwhile Pascal gets three territories in a row pretty quickly, like his predecessor Kevin did. We need to learn how to defend better! |
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Category 5 |
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With seven cards above 87, Pascal picks up three rows (including a 101 picking up a row ending in 25) but he gets off easy with only 23 points picked up in that round. Not as bad as Stephan who, with seven cards below 33, picked up four rows, in a row, for 42 points, ending the game. All this to see Alain win with a final score of 40. |
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PSAMKI. As Mike said, a few neurons get some exercise for the last time before being sacrificed later this week at Whiskey Fest.
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KAMS. Both games played tonight featured a victorious score of 55, and Kevin finishing in second place. So far, November belongs to the academics.
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La Isla |
Stephan Reebs
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Stephan trails the whole game but his insects are so valuable at the end of the game that he ends up on top. |
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Cleopatra and the society of architects |
Alain Haché
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Mike gets eaten by Cleopatra's favourite crocodile. Alain is just uncorrupt enough to escape the crocodile's attention, and efficient enough to save his Merchants, for the win. |
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JAMSKI. Kevin's brother Jimmy is in town and takes part in tonight's activities. Congratulations to Pascal and Isabelle on the birth of their second child!
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Fearsome floors |
Alain Haché
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Another game with a Halloween theme. Alain wins the race barely ahead of Kevin. |
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Perudo |
Stephan Reebs
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One dice left against Alain, who survived for most of the game with only one dice. |
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Camel up |
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Two lucky rolls at the end propel Stephan just ahead of Mike, to 32 points. |
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