Wrong strategy?
My uni friends, Kin Seong and Mun Leng, was recently back from Australia and we got to a reunion dinner together. In the ensuing discussion, they commented that in my blog, the description of my gaming activities always has a description of my failed strategies! Geez, I mean, really? What do you loyal readers think?
In honor of that, I shall report the game that I played with them that night after the dinner and try to keep to the suggested game reporting format ;P.
The game we played was Ticket to Ride: Europe.
Being the ever generous gamer, I employed my short missions-long tracks strategy. How this works is that I deliberately handicapped myself by keeping only two short tickets, but went all out in the track claiming spree by claiming the 8-train route and one of the 6-train routes.
On the other end, Mun Leng played a balanced strategy with a long ticket and 3 short tickets. Kin Seong played aggressively and draw lots ‘o extra tickets over the course of the game.
And yea, verily, history repeats, in the end I lost, by 1 point to Mun Leng and 7 points to Kin Seong. The decisive factor was the claiming of the other 6-train route by Kin Seong, one step ahead, to deny me the 15 point jump. Kudos to both of them, however, for beating me AND breaking the 100 point barrier in their first game. They’re really good at it!
Next, I bring out Lost Cities for them couple to play.
Kin and Mun enjoyed the game and played it twice in a row! Me myself relax by the side as they try to outplay, outguess and out-chicken each other in tension filled games. Haha, with the two sample games I’m sure they’re addicted and want to find it by now.
So, in order to play the role of a boardgame crack dealer, I shall now point them in the right direction:
>http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/50<
Good Luck in finding the game! 
