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Posted by David on Monday, February 15, 2010

This weekend was fabulous. I learned how to play three supafly-fantastic games. The first game I learned to play was called "Zombies!!!" It involves building a map/game board and trying to survive while fighting zombies and gathering supplies. The only way to win is by reaching the Helipad, wherever it may have been placed, and then fighting all of the zombies therein, OR, by killing 25 zombies. It's pretty amazing and there are a lot of ways to screw over your opponents, which is something that I look for in every game I play. You get cards throughout the game that you can either play on yourself or others so that you can either improve your standings or make it difficult for your opponents. You can also roll at the end of your turn and you can move that number of Zombies one space. This allows for a lot more strategy and deceit. I love it. This may be one of my new favorite games. I've, so far, only played with 3 others at a time, but I'm guessing that it'd be even more insane-crazy with 5. Hopefully I'll get another chance to see how it goes.
Another game I learned to play is called "Settlers of Catan" which also involves building your own game board. It's a game of harvesting resources and building settlements and resources. I seem to have a flair for predicting where the best starting settlements are since I won almost every game I played. I'd highly recommend this game, and if you already have it, I'd recommend investing in an expansion - it's definitely worth it. I don't think I've ever played another board game like it. It's just so much fun and it can both promote comradery and animosity. Awesome.

The last game I learned was "Magic." I'm not very good at it and I only won one game, albeit it was my first time playing and I won so it's slightly impressive. I don't think I have much skill for it though, but I'm willing to learn.
Apart from all of the rampant game-playing, I got to have some much needed alone time with my friends. Siren and I talked a lot. It was nice. She's pretty fab.
I didn't get all of my reading and writing done that I'd planned to do, but that's not too much of an inconvenience. I'll get things done eventually.

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