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Jun. 25th, 2018 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherAt gaming group this week, I played:
* Secret Hitler: One of those social deduction spot-the-secret-bad-guy games that I'm not good at. I wasn't good at it; the first game, the one person I was confident wasn't a bad guy was, and the second game, when I was one of the bad guys, I got spotted almost immediately. The two games after that, I was one of the good guys again, and the good guys won both times, though I don't think I contributed much. I enjoyed it more than I usually enjoy playing this kind of game, though.
* We Didn't Playtest This At All: The kind of game you have to be in the right mood for, and I'm not sure I was. I think I had more fun watching people play before I was dealt in than I did actually playing.
* Coconuts: A game in which the aim is lob little rubber coconuts into cups using a catapult shaped like a monkey. The box art got points from me for having the Handsome Monkey King on it, wearing the particular outfit that Australians my age remember him wearing (I'm not sure if it originates in a particular adaptation, but it's not what he's described wearing in the novel). Hectic, enjoyable, and I'm pretty sure I won.
* Whitehall Mystery: A game where one of the players is a fugitive secretly moving around the board, and the other players are investigators trying to get on his trail and discover his location before he completes his to-do list. At one point early in the game, we knew exactly where he was and were closing in, but he doubled back and got past me on a path I thought I had sealed up and hadn't, and from that point we were lagging behind him all the way, although the other two investigators were hot on his trail and only one step behind him when he won. (I was a lot further back, because I'd refused to believe he'd got past me and gone off the wrong direction for a while before turning around and heading back.)
* Secret Hitler: One of those social deduction spot-the-secret-bad-guy games that I'm not good at. I wasn't good at it; the first game, the one person I was confident wasn't a bad guy was, and the second game, when I was one of the bad guys, I got spotted almost immediately. The two games after that, I was one of the good guys again, and the good guys won both times, though I don't think I contributed much. I enjoyed it more than I usually enjoy playing this kind of game, though.
* We Didn't Playtest This At All: The kind of game you have to be in the right mood for, and I'm not sure I was. I think I had more fun watching people play before I was dealt in than I did actually playing.
* Coconuts: A game in which the aim is lob little rubber coconuts into cups using a catapult shaped like a monkey. The box art got points from me for having the Handsome Monkey King on it, wearing the particular outfit that Australians my age remember him wearing (I'm not sure if it originates in a particular adaptation, but it's not what he's described wearing in the novel). Hectic, enjoyable, and I'm pretty sure I won.
* Whitehall Mystery: A game where one of the players is a fugitive secretly moving around the board, and the other players are investigators trying to get on his trail and discover his location before he completes his to-do list. At one point early in the game, we knew exactly where he was and were closing in, but he doubled back and got past me on a path I thought I had sealed up and hadn't, and from that point we were lagging behind him all the way, although the other two investigators were hot on his trail and only one step behind him when he won. (I was a lot further back, because I'd refused to believe he'd got past me and gone off the wrong direction for a while before turning around and heading back.)
