TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2005
Modern Art Gaming
Tonight was a quiet night of gaming with Burr and Natalie. First up was the quick intro game of Clocktowers where we introduced it to Natalie, and before no time she was building the towers like the rest of us, with the game ending close as usual. Next up was our new game of Modern Art, a recent gift from Laura to add to our game collection. It's the first auction game we've had, and this one includes all types of auctions as we vie for selling and collecting the most fashionable pieces of art each round. There's once-around auctions where eveyone has one chance to purchase the piece of art, simultaneous auctions like the auctioneer, a fixed price auction, and a double auction option to sell two pieces of art at once. The prices would fluxuate from round to round as we each tried to influence which would be the most valuable, and it was a very fun game that we'll have to play more often. Our final game was a round or two of Zendo, building logical puzzles to solve for the ultimate zen theory of good vs. bad, while some took only a few turns others went around for a while before we could divine the true nature of the rules.