Saturday was a smaller turnout, which featured the new card game Gorgon. This is the game with the pretty cards. As I sit here and try to think about what to say about it, I can't even remember the rules. I guess that is my initial feeling, forgettable. Was not a bad game by any means, and I enjoyed the games we played. Just don't remember them... Well, everyone liked this game last week, it has one flaw, I will get to that in a moment. The game played with 6 suits, each suit id numbered 0-15, the lower numbers have amulets on them. The starting player plays 1-3 cards, the set can be anything but three of the same suit. when everyone has played the same amount of cards, they all flip. The starting player picks a suit to go into battle, everyone that played that suit sends the highest card in to battle, the people with the lowest cards discard them and take a card for each card discarded, the winner puts the card in his/her score pile. The Catch is all players must play a different combination but the last player can only use colors that have been played. We ran into the problem that if you play a set of two of one color, the players just play something the last player does not have, this gives them a "free ride". I think if we played with a new house rule, we could fix the game. Houserule: The starting player plays 2-3 cards, but can not play all of the same color, they must have at least 2 suits. At the end of the game, the players score the amount of amulets in his/her score pile, zeros of each suit double the score of that suit. if you get two zeros of a suit you will double and double again. the player with the most creatures of each suit will get a bonus of 10, ties get 5, no matter how many ties.
Gorgon Winner Ed 56 - John P. 55 - Ray 52 - Noelle 44 - Don 39 Gorgon Winner Ray 67 - Don 57 - Noelle 51 - Ed 48 - John P. 45