This weekend I attended the semi-annual Chinese Food and
German Board Games night. One of my
friends hosts a couple professors, many students, and two dogs for an evening
of playing board games and eating Chinese takeout. German board games are a style of fairly
complex strategic games such as Settlers
of Catan, Carcassonne, and Ticket to Ride. Before dinner we had a lot of fun playing a
game stacking various weirdly shaped blocks.
Admittedly, we chose new rules each time we played. Sometimes the goal was to build it the
highest, other times it was to put as many pieces on it as possible, sometimes
it was timed, and sometimes we had to alternate between the black (more regular)
and red (really weirdly shaped) blocks.
After dinner, my group played two games of Flash Point: Fire Rescue. It’s
a cooperative game where your characters are a group of firefighters battling a
dangerous fire. In our case, we chose a
submarine fire and an airplane fire.
Very surprisingly, we won both rounds.
At previous CFGBGs we’ve won half or fewer of the Flash Point games.
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| Tower construction |
Watching the two dogs get along was amusing. Violet is small and long and looks a lot like
a miniature German shepherd. Luca on the
other hand is fairly large, she’s a Belgian Malinois. Basically, she looks like
a more slender version of a German shepherd.
Violet may be small, but her voice isn’t. When she barks, the much larger Luca would go
sit next to someone she knew for comfort.
When violet realized that Luca was not a threat to her household they
both went their separate ways and promptly spent the rest of the evening
ignoring one another.
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| Luca trying to fit in Violet's bed |
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