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this is pretty funny. courtesey of bill's blog.

Board Game Saturday Night

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Just another typical Saturday Night in NYC for the UWS gang. As Josh and I traipsed around union square in the rain discussing what to do that night, he had the brilliant idea that we go to Compleat Strategy to buy some German Boardgames and play while we watched basketball on tv.

Holy shit, that sounds awesome!! Will there be any girls or booze or drugs or loud music?

Hell No!! Just us guys, some dice, some cards, some wood pieces, and maybe even ice cream.

Even though I had to get up early for work in the morning, I decided this was too much to miss out on.

We bought three games at Compleat Strategy: Settlers of Cattan, Carcassone, and Diplomacy. I had my heart set on playing Diplomacy, after hearing so much about it from friends who had swore off risk forever after playing it. But when we busted it open, we realized not only was the rules book 30 pages of diagrams and detailed instructions, but that it also suggested setting aside about 4 hours for a typical game. Carcassone was much faster-paced and easier for beginners to pick up.

Carcassone is a tile-based game where you have to play tiles in patterns that create cities, roads, and fields, and play your pieces on the game board in strategic positions to gain points as the gameboard grows.

Settlers of Cattan is like a cross between Diplomacy and Carcassone. You use a combination of game board strategy with negotiations with other players in order to build an empire of cities, ports, and roads in Cattan. Peter swears its like the computer game "Civilization." Perhaps, but Settlers was invented ten years ago in Germany, and has really caught on with board game freaks.

We stayed up all night playing games and goofing off, and as I made my way back downtown around 3am, passing drunken revelers, clubhoppers, barflies, dealers, howlers, and all-around general midnight misfits, I briefly wondered what I was missing out on.

I bought a copy of the prior day's paper at the newsstand at the train station. The guy said "the new paper will be out in about an hour."

But I just wanted to do the crossword puzzle on the way home.

Even if I wanted to check out what I was missing out on, I'm not sure I'd last very long.

But it's ok. It takes all kinds to keep this city interesting.