Yesterday my wife, her brother, and I sat down for a game of Lords of Vegas. My wife and I jumped out in the lead, with me being just ahead for most of the game.
Then came the size 12 casino that I was in charge of. 6 tiles, all raised by one level, I had ownership of 3, my wife 2, and her brother had 1. Then he raised his single neighboring casino to join it to mine, making it size 14, and then paid for a reroll and put my wife in charge, just in time for it to score on the next turn.
This casino became the thorn in my side, as my wife had gotten ahead in scoring so I basically needed to be the boss of it to try to catch up. I got it back to her brother, and then took over one of his casinos just in time for the game to end. However, it was not enough, and my wife won with 60, I had 54, and her brother had 44.
Then that evening, the three of us tried out Star Wars: Unlock!, which is the first escape room style game we have ever played. We started with the tutorial, which was done in about 5 minutes, and moved on to the Escape from Hoth scenario.
Where we were totally stumped for at least 6 minutes. To the point the app gave us a hint that we still didn’t understand until I happened to notice the way to proceed. After doing something that gave us a penalty first, though.
Once we got started, though, we moved along pretty steadily, finishing the scenario in about 44 minutes. It was fun and we all enjoyed it. Hope to finish up the box this month, and I could see picking up others now and then, maybe going halfsies with our friends if they are interested so we can take turns with it before moving it on.
EDIT: Gah, took me about an hour to write the first part of this because my kids were being brats, so I forgot today’s game.
My wife and I played Ghost Stories at normal difficulty. We did really well! She was the blue monk that can take an action twice, which let her make great use of the Buddhist Temple tile, while I was the yellow monk that could take a Tao token at the beginning of my turn. We also had the Guardhouse token which let’s you check the top four cards of the ghost deck and put them back in any order, plus get a Tao token of your choice, at the cost of not having the tile that lets you un-haunt a location, which we luckily did not need.
We kept Haunters off the map very consistently, to the point we never had a haunted tile, and even the black ghost which insta-haunts was killed by a Buddha statue before it could do it. A couple of Tormentors came out, one of which I killed using my Yin Yang token to activate the Sorcerer’s Hit, while my wife took the other out with a bunch of Tao tokens, only needing one success on the dice.
Things started getting hairy at the end, as my board kept getting full on my wife’s turn, so I would lose a Qi on my turn, but we finally reached Wu-Feng when I was at 1 Qi, getting the Hope Killer incarnation, which requires two each of red, blue, green, and yellow to defeat. It just so happened I had a majority of that in tokens, thanks to my ability, and he was right in front of the tile which lets you roll two dice to get tokens, which my wife did twice in order to stock up herself, giving us all the tokens we needed to win.
Then, I drew the black ghost that hits you for 1 Qi when it comes out, which killed me. Luckily, my wife had all but one yellow token needed to kill Hope Killer, so she used her Yin Yang token to use the Guardhouse and get the remaining yellow token she needed, then Exorcised the fiend and won the game!
Awesome finish! Just a shame that I died on the same turn I would have ended the game.
