As is usual for Easter Weekend, some long lost sons of the Isle, return to the land of their forefathers. And afterwards they depart, not to be seen until Christmas.
Players present at Tony's : Tony, Fiona, me, Colin, Rob, Simon . Six(!)
Once again I took completely the wrong games. I should have taken some six player fillers (Razzia, Saboteur, Formula Motor Racing).
First game: Perudo. First time for everybody except Fiona & Tony. Two players (Simon & Colin) have been eliminated before Fiona loses a dice, then she loses them all rapidly. Comes down to me with 2 dice against Tony's 2 dice, then one dice each, and I win. Good fun.
Second game: Alhambra. I win with 70-something points, with a 10-15 points lead over Tony. I adopted what I felt was the correct strategy, but Tony said he was doing the opposite (if I understood him correctly), so I guess I'm still not certain what the correct six-player strategy is (to the extent there is one).
Third game: Acquire. Colin and I hadn't played before, and Rob and Simon seemed pretty rusty. Nobody came close to running out of money (I was down to $100 at one point, but new I could do a merger in a chain in which I had majority next turn).This game ended up pretty close (maybe that's a feature of six player - with six players the mergers seem to happen pretty frequently). Colin and I came joint fifth with just under $28k, Rob had a little more, Fiona and Simon had over $30k and Tony won with about $33k.
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