Game Night has become a regular thing, and it's too bad I'll be in Portugal next week when Tuesday comes around. This night started out with just Matt L and myself, with Laura studying late, so I pulled out Cathedral, a quick game with some distant similarities to Go. Your pieces are pentominoes that you try to place and block your opponent from placing their pieces. We traded games back and forth and Matt won the last one from behind, as the first player seems to have a slight advantage.

I then picked out Attika, a good two player connection and building game, when we were joined by Kathleen and Mike, and then Laura. Since Attika only goes to four players, Laura volunteered to sit out and help everyone defeat Mark ;). Mike won with a sneaky shrine connection while we were all concentrating on building our own empires or thwarting other plans.

We wrapped up the night with a quick game of Balderdash, the game of making up word definitions and trying to fool other players to vote for yours. It was harder than I remembered to write convincing definitions, maybe because I haven't played the game in over four years. I went for the funny definitions sometimes just to see if the reader could pull them off without a laugh (usually not) ;) In a twist of irony, both Matt and I knew schadenfreude, and he's still bitter because I read it off his blog. :) Game night will resume in two weeks when I return from Portugal for the ILP conference.