Last week, one group organized a Bunco afternoon. Bunco being a very silly dice game, where you roll three dice and see how many of them match the number of the round you are in. There are six rounds per game. Each die that matches scores your team one point; if you roll three-of-a-kind you score five points; if you roll three-of-the-round-number you score 21 points and call out "BUNCO!" Between rounds you change tables and teams.
We played 3 games, 6 rounds in each, for 18 rounds. I lost 15 of the 18 rounds. Fortunately, there was a door prize for the "Biggest Loser", and I won that one by a mile!!
A couple of days later, there was another boardgame afternoon. I managed to get "Love Letter" on the table and four of us played a round or two. It's a fun kind of card game where you have a "hand" that is a single card, and on your turn you draw one card and play (or discard) either that one or the one in your hand. Cards have different effects, like you get to look at someone else's hand, or you compare hands and the person with the lower-value hand is knocked out of the round, and so on. The object is to either knock everyone else out of the round, or failing that to have the highest value hand at the end when the cards run out.
From there, the whole group (8 of us) moved on to a dice game called "Bupkis". You roll six dice, and 1s and 5s score, as do three-of-a-kinds and three pairs. If you have any dice that score, you can pick up the others and re-roll them. If your score for that round goes over a certain number, you can stop and add that round to your total score. If you ever roll dice and none of them score, you lose all the points from the round. I did pretty well, pulling out a big lead fairly early. I was able to score every round for most of the game, up until near the end. The gal sitting next to me, however, put on a lot of points at the end and just beat me.
I had to leave early at that point, so I don't know if there were any other games played.
We played 3 games, 6 rounds in each, for 18 rounds. I lost 15 of the 18 rounds. Fortunately, there was a door prize for the "Biggest Loser", and I won that one by a mile!!
A couple of days later, there was another boardgame afternoon. I managed to get "Love Letter" on the table and four of us played a round or two. It's a fun kind of card game where you have a "hand" that is a single card, and on your turn you draw one card and play (or discard) either that one or the one in your hand. Cards have different effects, like you get to look at someone else's hand, or you compare hands and the person with the lower-value hand is knocked out of the round, and so on. The object is to either knock everyone else out of the round, or failing that to have the highest value hand at the end when the cards run out.
From there, the whole group (8 of us) moved on to a dice game called "Bupkis". You roll six dice, and 1s and 5s score, as do three-of-a-kinds and three pairs. If you have any dice that score, you can pick up the others and re-roll them. If your score for that round goes over a certain number, you can stop and add that round to your total score. If you ever roll dice and none of them score, you lose all the points from the round. I did pretty well, pulling out a big lead fairly early. I was able to score every round for most of the game, up until near the end. The gal sitting next to me, however, put on a lot of points at the end and just beat me.
I had to leave early at that point, so I don't know if there were any other games played.
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