So we had friends over for brunch and lots of waffles were eaten.
Games played:
- Lacuna: twice against daughter who was curious about it and it plays incredibly quick and flowy. I am glad I finally got to play this. Funny enough both my partner and her mom kept telling the kid how to play (she‘s old enough) and it seems like everyone was interested in playing as they began to watch. I won both games and I have a feeling that if you play this a lot you can get better and optimize from the first turn (each player just gets 5). As it was I just played on intuition. My partner said „it‘s like shaker-Go“
- Harmonies: had not realized my partner (who won) had not played before. I didn‘t grab a 4th animal and those were the missing points. Bad planning on my part and lack of a river. But it‘s lovely even when losing. I noticed though that everyone at the table spend a lot of time thinking over their turns this round.
- Planet Unknown: last time the whole family visited we had introduced this and the daughter demanded it. Who am I to refuse a tetris game? We played with the asymmetric planets. They are probably not as balanced as could be. I had the one that has no water but electricity counting as energy terrain and I was able to complete the whole planet for the full 40 points (I had a lot of meteorites collected and lots of red/grey track). I got incredibly lucky with my Level 3 Civ card allowing me to place an extra tile and get rover movement from it precisely the 5 movement I needed to pick up the final 2 meteorites. And then suddenly everyone looked at my board and said „omg she can only place a maximum of 2 more tiles and then it is game over.“ And it was. For some reason even though I had picked a lot of „inside“ tiles which are generally covering fewer squares and still completed my planet way ahead of the others.
At some point my friend got annoyed at her daughter for taking long for her turn. The answer was „Well, I am your daughter!“
I promised for next time I will have the rules for Wonderland‘s War memorized so I can teach it.