"Play" and Board Games

My blog post from last time was pretty cut and dry, lacking the self deprecation and silliness that was evident in my CS100W blogs. Therefore, it's time to NOTCH IT UP A LITTLE BIT EH HEH HEH!?!?!



I may or may not be inebriated during the writing of this post.


Anyway, our task as of last week was to play a couple of board games and write a future session report.

My four person party consisted of Mike Phe, a goblin from the land of Foon, Andrew Soto, another goblin of Foon, and Aidan Nguyen, a fellow countryman...of the land of Foon. You can get to Foon by entering the drive thru of the Burger King located on the "corner of Irving Park and Clark Street in Chicago, Illinois, USA."

Right off the bat, Dark Lord Morgan here forced ME against my WILL to introduce to a bunch of goblins the game of Carcassone. Luckily I wasn't yet dead or reincarnated, so nothing was violated within the contents of my will.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne

Before we got to playing Carcassone, we decided it was more appropriate to play a simpler and quicker game. Andrew brought ZOMBIE DICE, a game pretty much about testing your luck.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/62871/zombie-dice



The goblin Andrew started the game off, and was immediately met with a couple of shotgun blasts, accruing ZERO BRAAAAIIIINNNSSS. Bigger question is, who's shooting the shotgun? Michonne? Bill? Shawn? World may never know. Aidan in turn was also murdered after having an unlucky two shot gun blast roll. Magic Mike, however, through some dark sorcery was able to roll a couple of brains before cowardly refusing to continue rolling for more brains. What a bad zombie.

I on the other hand, with precision and skill, rolled the most brains that round and had a very comfortably lead. Or so I thought.

Since I rolled so high the first round, I had a skewed perception of the odds of rolling brains instead of shotgun blasts. This in turn led me to aggressively continue to roll, which all ended with me getting any brains because the odds of getting a shotgun blasts were pretty high.

Andrew on the other hand learned his lesson and played way more conservatively, stacking his brains one by one until he initiated the end game by obtaining 13 brains, forcing the rest of us to roll in one last ditch effort.

Safe to say we left with a multitude of holes and Andrew stood atop our corpses as the winner.

In the end, I had a pretty good time playing zombie dice. Egging people to roll further and gamble is the core human experience...to failure. Which is why we do it so we can be the ones to stand atop the rest. HAHAHAHAHAHA. But yea, Zombie Dice is a game where being conservative is the way to win. HOT TIP. BROKE THE META.

Then we played Carcassone. But since we only need one session report for the completion of this assignment, YOU AIN'T GETTING ONE BUDDY.