Unequal Shares

Tuesday games was a welcome excuse not to venture out into the freezing winter sunshine and my less fortunate opponent eventually turned up with some very nice bread and Steam Barons. 

This is not so much a different game as an expansion and variant of Martin Wallace's "Steam" which we have been playing recently.



Unfortunately I was far less successful at this share-buying version, spending the whole game attempting to make up for a disastrous first turn. In the end Crabro sold all his shares a turn earlier than me having failed to notice a possible extension to the Green Railway Company's route which made it worth holding onto. The end result was still a win for him but by a far less embarrassing margin than originally looked on the cards. His score was in the £180 region where mine had crept up to the good side of £160. Hopefully I can put this learning game behind me and make a better stab at it next time.

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The filler looked like being Blokus as Crabro had found a cheap copy in a charity shop on the way over. Unfortunately a check revealed a number of missing pieces so we ended up playing Labyrinth the card game, a recent charity shop acquisition of my own. It was complete and in beautiful condition, with attractive cards on good cardstock...unfortunately it wasn't really much of a game.

It was still a very pleasant day and as I was preparing lunch we also managed some birding, spotting a number of fieldfares and redwings supplementing the usual bluetits and great tits in the view from the kitchen windows.