Whaaaaat?! Another Friday evening gaming session at The Luxe Cinema? No way. It’s like this is a regular thing or something!
We knew Ollie was going to be late. So Love Letter: Batman (the best version of the game beyond any doubt, and if you disagree you are wrong) hit the table to pass away the time until his arrival.
The Usual Suspect easily won the game. At times unnaturally guessing Jonathan’s card on the very first play of the round. Luckily I managed to score one token before the inevitable victory. Sadly for Jonathan he didn’t, and was left with a big fat zero points.
We’d just finished the first round of game two with the opening point going once again to the Usual Suspect, when Ollie arrived. So we dealt him in and explained the rules to him.
This second game was a game of two halves. The first half was Jonathan trailing behind on the token front and slowly catching up, then over taking everyone to reach six tokens. We then entered the second half, where Jonathan just sat there on six tokens, and I come from behind to catch up with Jonathan and snatch victory from him.
I can’t remember at which point I did the following but it just seemed the right and funny thing to do at the time. In one of the rounds Ollie played Catwoman and chose me, so he asked to see my hand. So I stretched out my right arm, and waved my hand at him. Accompanied with “there you go”. Oh did we all laugh. Sometimes being literal can be a hoot.
Our next game of the evening was Heckmeck am Bratwurmeck. Jonathan went over the rules for Ollie whilst I topped up my beverage supply.
This ended up as a two horse race between Ollie and Jonathan. Early on Ollie didn’t look like he was in the running, whilst Jonathan looked like he was going to run away with the victory. But from nowhere Ollie started amassing points, while the Usual Suspect and I tussled for last place.
Ollie Ollie timed his come back perfectly and once again Jonathan had had victory snatched from under his nose.
A pattern for the evening was starting to emerge.
Our final game of the evening was Perudo. It is my sad duty to report to the long time sufferers of this blog that I was knocked out first. Or to put it another way, I was last. The final head to head was between the Usual Suspect and Jonathan. Can you guess which way the game went? Yep Jonathan grasped defeat and gave it a big huge hug.
After a surprise evening of just light filler type games, we had a great evening of gaming at a superb host. Topped off with the customary greasy dodgy meat with lashings of chilli sauce and shredded green stuff.