French Bullhuahua

Round 1

PIKES plays Leonard of Quirm, drawing 4 cards.

Zoons plays the Pink Pussycat Club, gaining $3, Mr. Bent, taking a $10 loan, and the History Monks, gaining the 2 cards in the discard pile, and placing a minion in Dimwell.

Blue Meanies plays Dr. Whiteface on PIKES, who accepts it, and places a minion in Dragon's Landing.

Round 2

PIKES plays The Ankh Morpork Sunshine Dragon Sanctuary.  Zoons gives PIKES $1 and Blue Meanies gives PIKES $1.  PIKES then plays The Beggars' Guild on the Blue Meanies, placing a minion in the Isle of Gods.  The Blue Meanies give PIKES 2 cards.

Zoons play the Pink Pussycat Club, gaining $3, then The Dysk, spending $6 to build in Dimwell and gaining $1.

Blue Meanies play Gimlet's Dwarf Delicatessen, gaining $3 and placing a minion and Trouble marker in Dragon's Landing.

Round 3

PIKES plays Sacharissa Crisplock, gaining $3 and placing a minion in Nap Hill.

Zoons play Leonard of Quirm, drawing 4 cards, and spends $3 to place a minion in Longwall.

Blue Meanies plays Rincewind, drawing the Bloody Stupid Johnson event, which rolls and 11 for Seven Sleepers to no effect, moves a minion from Dolly Sisters to Nap Hill, removing Trouble from Dolly Sisters and placing it in Nap Hill, then plays Hex, drawing 3 cards.

Round 4

PIKES plays Queen Molly, placing a minion and Trouble marker in Longwall and taking 2 cards from Zoons.

Zoons play Nobby Nobbs on PIKES, taking $3 from him, play The Fools' Guild on PIKES, who does pays the Zoons $5 to discard it, then spends $3 to place a minion in Longwall.

Blue Meanies play Captain Carrot, placing a minion and Trouble in Dolly Sisters, removing Trouble from Dragon's Landing, and gaining $1.

Round 5

PIKES plays Dr. Cruces, removing a red minion and Trouble from Longwall and gaining $3.

Zoons play the Sonky Shop, discarding a card for $1, spending $12 to build a building in Longwall, and spending $3 to place a minion in The Shades.

Blue Meaies play Mr. Boggis, taking $2 from each other player and placing a minion in Seven Sleepers.

Round 6

PIKES plays Foul Ole Ron, moving a blue minion from The Scours to The Shades, removing Trouble from The Scours, then plays The Librarian, drawing 4 cards.

Zoons gain $1 from Longwall, play Drumknot, allowing the play of 2 more cards, which are Harry King, placing a minion in Dolly Sisters, and Mr. Gryle, removing a blue minion and Trouble from The Shades and gaining $1, and spend $3 to place a minioin and Trouble in The Scours.

Blue Meanies play Mrs. Cake, looking at 3 of the 4 unused personality cards, gaining $2, and spending $12 for a building in Dragon's Landing.

Round 7

PIKES plays the Agony Aunts, removing a red minion from The Scours, which is blocked by Gaspode, gaining $2, and placing a minion and Trouble marker in The Shades.

Zoons gain $1 from Longwall, play the Bank of Ankh-Morpork, taking out a $10 loan, Duckman, moving a green minion from The Shades to The Hippo, removing Trouble from The Shades, and spends $3 to place a minion in The Shades, adding Trouble back to The Shades.

Blue Meanies gain $2 from Dragon's Landing, play The Fire Brigade on the Zoons, who pay them $5.

Round 8

PIKES plays Harga's House of Ribs, gaining $3 and placing a minioin and Trouble in Longwall.

Zoons gain $1 from Longwall, play CMOT Dibbler, rolling a 10 and gaining $4, then The Thieves Guild, taking $2 from PIKES, but being blocked by the Blue Meanies play of Wallace Sonky, placing a minion in The Scours, and spending $3 to place a minion in Longwall.

Blue Meanies gain $2 from Dragon's Landing, play Inigo Skimmer, removing a red minion and Trouble from Dolly Sisters and gaining $2, and Doctor Mossy Lawn, keeping Inigo Skimmer in his hand.

Round 9

PIKES plays Rosie Palm, placing a minion and Trouble in Dolly Sisters and gives a card to the Zoons, who give back $2.

Zoons gain $1 from Longwall, play Here'N'Now, rolling and 8 and taking $4 from PIKES, then play Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip, gaining $1 and removing a green minion and Trouble from Dolly Sisters.  PIKES plays Fresh Start Club, moving the minion from Dolly Sisters to Longwall.

Blue Meanies gain $2 from Dragon's Landing and play Inigo Skimmer, removing a green minion and Trouble from Nap Hill and gain $1.

Round 10

PIKES plays Sergent Angua, removing Trouble from Longwall and Modo, placing a minion and Trouble in Nap Hill and discarding a card.

Zoons gain $1 from Longwall, play the Royal Mint, spending $6 for a building in Dolly Sisters, gain $5, and use Dimwell to spend $3 to place a minion and Trouble in Longwall.

Blue Meanies gain $2 from Dragon's Landing, play Moist von Lipwig, placing a minion and Trouble in The Hippo, gaining $3 and 2 cards, and plays Sir Charles Lavatory, gaining $4 and spending $18 for a building in Seven Sleepers.

Round 11

PIKES plays The Senior Wrangler, draing the Fire event, which starts in Isle of Gods, so it ends there, places a minion and Trouble in Dolly Sisters, then plays Burleigh & Stronginthearm, paying $2 to the Blue Meanies and removing a red minion and Trouble from Longwall.  The Zoons play Igor, placing the minion removed from Longwall in Dolly Sisters.

Zoons gain $1 from Longwall, play Deep Dwarves, placing a minion in Longwall without Trouble, and Sergent Detritus, removing Trouble from Dolly Sisters and The Scours.

Blue Meanies gain $2 from Dragon's Landing, $3 from Seven Sleepers, and play The Luggage, removing a green minion and Trouble from Nap Hill and discarding a card.  PIKES plays Susan, preventing the removal.

Round 12

PIKES plays Ruby, placing a minion and Trouble in Dolly Sisters.

Zoons take $1 from Longwall, play Dr. Hix, who draws, Demons from the Dungeon Dimensions, placing demons in The Shades, Dimwell (with Trouble), and Seven Sleepers (with Trouble), places a Trouble marker in Isle of Gods, plays The Dean, drawing Fog, causing the top 5 cards from the deck to be discarded (Mr. Teatime, Professor of Recent Runes, The Post Office, Anadora Belle Dearheart, and the Alchemists' Guild), then plays the Mended Drum, gaining $2.

Blue Meanies gain $2 from Dragon's Landing, play the Smoking Gnu, adding a minion to Dolly Sisters, Dorfl, moving a minion from Dragon's Landing to Dolly Sisters, and 'HELLO', removing green minions and Trouble from Nap Hill and The Hippo, and spending $12 to build in The Hippo.

Round 13

PIKES plays Pondor Stibbons, drawing Riots to no effect and playing Archchancellor Ridcully, drawing Mysterious Murders.  The Zoons roll The Scours and remove their own minion from the area.  The Blue Meanies roll Nap Hill and have to remove their own minion from the area.  PIKES rolls The Scours and removes a red minion.  PIKES places minions in Nap Hill and Dolly Sisters, and finally plays Otto Chreik, gaining $5.

Zoons gain $1 from Longwall, play Edward d"Eath, removing a demon and Troble from The Shades, gaining $3, spend $6 to place a building in The Scours, and spend $3 using Dolly Sisters to place a minion in Unreal Estate.

Blue Meanies gain $2 each from Dragon's Landing and The Hippo, play Cosmo Lavish, paying $2 to PIKES, who removes a red minion and Trouble from Dimwell, plays Carcer, who rolls Seven Sleepers and Isle of Gods, removing the Demon and Trouble from Seven Sleepers and the green minion and Trouble from Isle of Gods, play The Chair of Indefinite Studies, drawing the Flood event in Longwall.  PIKES moves 2 minions from Longwall to Dimwell, adding Trouble, and 1 minion from Longwall to Seven Sleepers, adding Trouble.  The Zoons move 3 minions from Longwall to Isle of Gods, adding Trouble.  The Blue Meanies exchange hands with the Zoons, play the Patrician's Palace, gaining $4, and place a minion in Dolly Sisters, and gain $3 from Seven Sleepers.

Round 14

PIKES plays The Mob, placing Trouble in The Scours and a minion in Seven Sleepers, plays The Bursar, who draws the Subsidence event.  The Zoons pay $8 and the Blue Meanies pay $6.  PIKES exchanges a red minion from The Scours with a blue minion from Seven Sleepers, then plays The Opera House, spending $6 for a building in The Shades and gaining $3.

Zoons gain $1 from Longwall, plays Groat, placing a minion in The Scours and pays $3 to use Dolly Sisters to place a minion in Dolly Sisters.

Blue Meanies reveal themselves to be Chrysoprase, and with a total asset value of $50 ($42 in buildings, $8 in cash), winning the game!  Congratulations to Christopher Hunt on his victory!

End of Game Statements

Bill Scharf (Zoons):  Thanks for running the game, always fun! And congratulations to Christopher on his win. This game had a number of firsts for me, I had my longest string of five areas, and multiple strings where I was a threat to win. I was lord rust by the way. I also ran out of minions, another first for me! Unfortunately, my opponents always had enough cards to stop me, but hey a few cards different and it would have been another in my win column. Good game everybody!

Christopher Hunt (Blue Meanies):  Thanks to Chris for running the game so well.  Started very badly with little income and no prospect of building anything.  Thought Zoons would walk it with their wide control of areas.  Love playing the game still think with above 3 players the game ends with the cards running out.  Think there should be more victory conditions but this would break the theme of the game criminal gams controlling the city.  Prefer the next game in the series Nanty Narking (Immersed deeply in the world of Dickens’s and Doyle’s literature, Nanty Narking moves you into the realities of the myths and legends of the Victorian era. The events in the game are tied to real and fictional characters and places in Victorian London The same London which inspired so many stories…

The action takes place on the city map, with players placing their agents and buildings on the board through card play. Every card is unique. The cards bring the game to life as they include most of the famous characters who have appeared in the various books. The rules are relatively simple: Play a card and do what it says. Most cards have more than one action on them, and you can choose to do some or all of these actions. Some cards also allow you to play a second card, so you can chain actions. At the beginning of the game, each player draws a secret personality with specific victory conditions, which means that you can never be sure what the other players need to do in order to win. You need to fulfill your goal while also trying to prevent others from winning!) As you can see the same game but there are some tweaks. Each player has a special character...

Kevin Wilson (PIKES):  Well I certainly didn’t see that coming. I think that’s the first time Chrysophase has won a game. I think it’s much harder for that character to win with 4 players. I guess I should have realized it would be easier with 3. I did keep an eye on the cash balances but should have been watching houses too!  Lesson learned.

I had convinced myself both of the others were one of the area control Lords so I focused on keeping them from 5 areas. That thought also kind of kept Chrysophase out of mind so contributed to my actions. I was Commander Vimes so just tried to run the cards out, which is harder with 3 players than 4. I had some good ones early that ate up a few cards but it slowed later.

I have a copy of Nanty Narking. It’s nicer eye candy than Discworld but essentially plays the same. It has some slightly different cards but has “classic” cards that copy Discworld.  The plastic “minions” and other pieces are very pretty.  I don’t paint but I guess you could. It’s obviously less tongue-in-cheek than Discworld but is basically the same game.

The Players

PIKES is P-Math Institute of Klatch, Ee Section.

Board Position

Dolly Sisters: 3 Red, 4 Blue, and 4 Green minions, Red building, Trouble

Unreal Estate: Red minion

Dragon's Landing:  Blue minion, Blue building

Small Gods: None

The Scours: Red, Blue, and Green minions, Red building, Trouble

The Hippo: Blue minions, Blue building

The Shades:  3 Red, Blue, and Green minions, Green building

Dimwell: 2 Green minions, Red building, Demon, Trouble

Longwall: Red Building

Isle of Gods: 3 Red minions, Trouble

Seven Sleepers: Red and 2 Green minions, Blue building, Trouble

Nap Hill: Green minion