Gaming weekend.....

Well what a weekend that was.... everyone was very excited about having a whole weekend of gaming, especially me in that Dad was due over and I wanted to show off out new front room lay out and the game storage table with all the games. Sad I know but there you go.

Friday evening we played Formula Motor Racing - a great little simple play-by-placing-cards game using two plastic cards per team on a strip of 12 car places. As the cards are played, events take place in the race and positions change and cars crash out. Very simple and exciting, easily played by Maya (4) with little prompting - until it got to the point where Anita was giving "Strategic advice" on her card placement. In the end Anita came 1st and 2nd.

Then we had a game of Zooloretto, a fab zoo based management game from Germany. It looks complex but it is very simple to play - although this is not to understate its beautifully simple strategic side that the girls (even Maya) managed to pick up on - go German game makers!! Basically you have a zoo which you have to fill up the attractions in order to gain money to do more things with your zoo, expand it, move animals about, buy animals etc. Each turn everyone places a card counter onto a wooden "Lorry" with three spaces on them to carry animals, stalls, money etc. Then everyone takes the turn to draw a card and place on a lorry of their choice.

The player can keep doing this or take a lorry (Say they want the lorry with two elephants and the drinks stall or dustbin as Maya calls it.) and distribute the animals in the zoo. Any spare go into the barn. Once the counters have run out, then scoring takes place. Animals in the barn count against the final score. This is a basic coverage of the game but it is very compelling to play.

Unfortunately a broken washing machine, that lead to a 4.5hr round trip to Farnborough, on Saturday messed up our plans - so no gaming on Saturday and we were so tired, we didn't do any on Sunday!! :(