Annals of Events

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Played at Stephan's place. SKIMP. Happy Birthday Mike! (Technically, the day after tomorrow.)

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Cockroach Poker Royal Ian Stewart The inaugural game. Normally, one player goes out and is the loser while all the others win, but we institute a house rule that there should be only one winner: the player with the fewest cards when the first person goes out. This rule sees Ian win the first game, with only three cards, after Kevin runs out of cards.
Cryptid Mike Gerdov Mike is the only player who guesses almost perfectly all the others' rules, and he cashes in. He attributes his superior intellectual performance to having avoided eating chips this week. Pfff, some birthday spirit!
Trans Europa Pascal Werlberger Stephan and Ian go out after three rounds, and Pascal's success on the last round is enough to steal the win from Kevin and Mike, who were tied for the lead before that.
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Played at Stephan's place. MISPAK. Happy Birthday Kevin! (Technically, this Saturday.) We celebrate by playing ABBA music and eating a lot of junk food.

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Evolution Stephan Reebs Stephan finds the right combos and wins with 44 points, just 3 more than Pascal. Ian tries a carnivore, but once again the meat-eating strategy does not pan out. We are yet to see a carnivore win in this game.
Category 5 Pascal Werlberger Pascal leads from beginning to end but wins by only 1 point, 49 to Stephan's 50.
Tsuro Mike Gerdov, Stephan Reebs Stephan and Mike die together on the penultimate square.
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Played at Stephan's place. PAMS. Mike has met a guy who has heard about the HFG as this mysterious and secretive gaming group for elite players. Tried to find us on the internet and couldn't. The Gerdov server is well hidden!

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Viticulture Pascal Werlberger Inaugural game. Pascal suddenly takes off in the last two rounds, during which he scores about half the points needed to reach the winning 20-point mark, leaving the rest of the pack in the dust (especially Stephan with his meager 2 points).
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Played at Stephan's place. PSIMKA. Full crew tonight. Even Irina drops by after a painting session. But before that, Stephan sits out and teaches an old game that has not yet been played by the group: Beowulf, a real bidding fest.

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Beowulf: the Legend Pascal Werlberger Pascal wins the inaugural game with 29 points. He won most of the major bidding events (he had five 5-points tokens).

29 points

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Played at Stephan's place. MKPS. Kevin brings Sagrada, which Mike has never played before and Stephan has played only once. And before that we play a game that is new for everyone but Stephan.

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Kanagawa Mike Gerdov Mike doesn't realize he's a newbie at this game, and he smokes us with 39 points, helped by two wilds obtained early in the game.
Sagrada Stephan Reebs Stephan gets the two dice he needed at the end and he edges out Pascal with 82 points.

82 points