What's this blog all about?

"Board games? You play board games?" I hear you say... yes, but not unlike any board games you've probably ever heard of. Monopoly? Cluedo? Guess Who? Battleships? No, not by a long shot. One day someone introduced me to a great little game called "Carcassonne" - named after a French medieval town of rambling streets, walls and sections - where the aim is to score the most points using little random squares of road, walls and cities.
I was hooked and so began my, then our - the Bradshaw Tribe, adventure into Euro- and Ameritrash- gaming...

Friday 13 January 2012

Ha, I win at Ticket to Ride Germany....oh, then again!

Anita asked for another game from our favourite series Ticket to Ride - so I grabbed a copy that we'd not played for a while, the Marklin or Germany edition. We used the basic game ie without the Passenger rules for simplicity and I put in a good lead ahead of Anita. At game end, I went to count up my tickets, and although one was failed to be completed because Anita had blocked the route from Düsseldorf, I found myself on 120 points compared to Anita on 65. It was then that Anita counted up her tickets and as she had take two Long distance tickets against my one (perfectly legal just that I didn't want the risk), her final count up put her at....121!!! Then as she had one completed the most amount of tickets (because I was blocked) she got an extra 10. And although strictly not in the rules, we counted up the longest route, which Anita won as well! I think that is called a Full House!

Game end - I have a comfortable lead over Anita
prior to counting up tickets - looks like I'll win this one!

No!! Anita first beats me by 1 point over tickets and then she wins
with most tickets complete and longest train route!

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