Last Night’s Game – Money

When we get to the end of a game, I often forget to take photos for this series of blog posts.

Last week we played Apothebakery. It was a lot of fun, but I don’t have any pictures of it.

Last night we played two games, both by allplay. They seem to emphasize small, short, inexpensive games. For our group, a game advertised to be “15 minutes long” is liable to take a hour or more, but that’s just in how we play.

The first game was Ruins, which is an interesting take on deck-building: It vaguely resembles Mystic Value, in that you improve the cards in the deck using transparent overlays.

Unfortunately, I didn’t think to take any pictures until after the end of the second game we played, Money.

Money is a bidding set-building game. You build up sets of currency. Unfortunately, I misunderstood the end-game scoring rules and wasted bids to acquire cards that didn’t make a difference to my score.

Behold the cards of a loser, namely me. Those cards on the upper left didn’t score anything at all. The cards on the upper right had a scoring penalty because they didn’t have a high enough total.

Behold the cards of a winner, namely M. For example, she had enough of the “gazelle” currency to fully score it. Also, there are bonuses for collecting 20s and 30s within a given currency, and she had both those sets within the gazelles.

Overall, it was a fun evening.

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