Harrowed Halls

This week we revised The History of the World. There is so much to say about this game. Fortunately, I’ve forgotten most of it, so I’ll just the hit the parts that I remember. If you want to know all of the details of how to play the game, go to www.geekdo.com (formerly BoardGameGeek.com).

The game started out normally enough. Owen had a small lead after the first epoch, with the rest of us tied for second place. By the end of the second epoch Mike was the pre-eminent one (the leader) and earned the first of many pre-eminence markers (bonus points). By the third epoch things were in chaos. I completely forgot to use my special cards. Mike ended the third epoch by scoring a boatload points—taking another pre-eminence marker. This was to be how each of the remaining epochs ended and here’s why.

At the start of the forth epoch, I handed Mike the game on a silver platter by stupidly allowing him to go first, thus magnifying the boatload of points he had just scored a hundred fold. (Ok, not really a hundredfold, but certainly by a lot.) Ben and Owen were duly outraged. I wish I could say they were struck speechless by my act of incredible idiocy, but alas, no, there weren’t. Mike extended his lead and never looked back.

I was in second place most of the game, with Owen lagging a bit behind and Ben lagging way behind…way behind.

Before I talk about Owen’s lucking changing, it has come to my attention that I may have had something to do with Owen’s horrible luck during the past several weeks. For this I apologize to Owen and now turn my curse ridden eyes towards my true target, Mike.

The end of the game was predictable in that Mike won by a huge landslide. What was surprising though was Owen’s ability to make up for a lot of lost ground and come in second. It wasn’t really that surprising I guess. Owen has always had a way of scoring a ton of points at the end of whatever game we are playing. That left me in third and Ben in very last place…very last place.

Chaos Steve