All Things Chill

Flickr album here. On the day I flew in to Illinois, I hung out at Mark’s house for a bit with Rich and Brad (SEE I READ YOUR BLOGS), had dinner that Mark cooked – his blog post pending – and played a lil’ ol’ game called Carcassonne. Here’s yours truly deep in thought and a hilarious picture of Mark terrorizing the unused game pieces. He’s got a really nice camera! Wiki has the deets on the game itself:

The game board is a medieval landscape built by the players as the game progresses. The game starts with a single terrain tile face up and 71 others shuffled face down for the players to draw from. On each turn a player draws a new terrain tile and places it adjacent to tiles that are already face up. The new tile must be placed in a way that extends features on the tiles it abuts: roads must connect to roads, fields to fields, and city walls to city walls.

You pick up a tile from a bag, and you drop it on the playing field – connecting roads, expanding castles or laying farmland… all while strategically ordering your little wooden peons to get daddy some points. Something like that, hee hee. The game can actually get really REALLY REALLY involved, but I always request that it be simplified (read: dumbed down) so people like me can blanket their attention spans without much antsy-ness. It’s fun when you have friends that just want to hang out. It’s not when you play with highly-competitive people who judge their self worth by their scorecard and the disparity between his/her opponents (but I’m not bitter in anyway lol).

Oh, and by the way, I WON. MWMWAAHAHHA. Farms be damned! I am a castle builder through and through! Haha.

I can haz trophies?

~Spec

P.S. Does anyone have this for Xbox360? I will plays with you, I promise!

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