Tonight we sat quietly and ate our dinners, then rested.

Attendees: Craig Trader and Carrie Hafer.

Tonight we played a 4-player game of Ticket to Ride: USA 1910, using the Big Cities variant, and a 6-player game of Power Grid using the USA map.

• Blaise won Ticket to Ride, followed closely by Sallie and Fuzz, with Craig trailing.
• Dave won Power Grid, having exhausted the rest of us.

Note to self: In the future, do NOT start 6-player games of Power Grid at 10:00pm -- the game was hard fought and brutal.

Attendees: Craig Trader and Carrie Hafer, Rachel and Jim “Blaise” Trigg, Sallie, Dave and Tony Montuori, Dana Leader, and John McMahon.

Tonight we played a 5-player game of Mutiny!, and a 2-player game of Power Grid on the Central European map.

• Blaise won Mutiny!
• Craig won Power Grid.

This was the first time for us playing Mutiny!; it took a while to get the hang of it, then it got bloody. After everyone else went home, Dave and Craig played a hard-fought game of Power Grid, but beyond a certain point, the end result was inevitable -- Dave could have forced an additional turn, but it wouldn't have mattered.

Attendees: Craig Trader and Carrie Hafer, Sallie, Dave and Tony Montuori, Rachel and Jim "Blaise" Trigg.

Tonight we played a quick game of Early American Chrononauts, and a 5-player game of Power Grid with the Central Europe map.

• Dana won Early American Chrononauts.
• Craig won Power Grid, with Dave and Dana more-or-less tied for 2nd/3rd, followed by Tony and Fuzz.

This was our first time playing the Central Europe map -- it was a complex game because we had randomly picked Slovakia as the missing province, which seriously crimped everyone's plans. Plant distribution was very weird -- all of the good (ie: mid-to-expensive) plants came out early, but we didn't get to Step 3. Coal was cheap and plentiful (expected); surprisingly, so was Uranium -- at one point Uranium was the cheapest resource, even with two players grabbing it. Trash quickly became the most expensive resource.

Attendees: Craig Trader and Carrie Hafer, Sallie, Dave and Tony Montuori, Dana Leader, and John McMahon.

We expect to be hosting a normal Ludus, in spite of the holiday.

Tonight we played 3 quick games of Chrononauts and 2 longer games of Early American Chrononauts.

• Chrononauts: Game 1: Sallie, Game 2: Craig, Game 3: Dave.
• Early American Chrononauts: Game 1: Dave, Game 2: Tony?

Attendees: Craig Trader and Carrie Hafer, Liska Niemczyk, Sallie, Dave and Tony Montuori, and Dana Leader.

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