Day #10 - I'm being taught games again!?!

Day #10 - Learning some new games
Games Played: Mystery of the Abby & Amazonas

So today in C&G, I was taught a pair of games from my classmates.

First, Mr. Abe taught use how to play Mystery of the Abby. It's a game that sounds a lot like "Clue," with elements of "Guess Who" thrown in there. However, after playing for a little bit, the game seemed to take on it's own personality. Between having to move around the board to get different "event" cards, questions other "priests" as we passed on the board, or getting called back to the chapel for mass (Which a little Bell was provided for), It felt like a very unique experience. I really enjoyed that one.

Second, Mr. Sam taught me Amazonas. It's a resource game, where you need to build a site at 4 different cities as well as collect victory points while avoiding the "dangers" of the jungle. Sound kind of exciting yea? Sadly the game was really disappoint it. Every turn and "Event Card" was flipped up from the deck which usually was a money bonus for having a particular type of animal, as well as 8 cards (in the deck of 18) that actually had bad effects. However the bad effects could be countered by playing your "Indian guide" card. Every turn you played a card from your hand to get additional money and decide turn order. Overall, if you paid remotely any attention to what event cards had already been used, and picked the shortest routes between cities it seemed like it was easy to do well in the game.

Anywho, so that was my joy of being taught games today, and it was fun to an extent!
~Brandon