Italian Greyhound

Round 1

Blue Meanies play Mr. Bent, gaining a $10 loan, CMOT Dibbler, rolling an 8 and gaining $4, and Mr. Boggis, taking $2 from each other player and placing a minion in Dragon's Landing.

Hawt Rocks play Leonard of Quirm, drawing 4 cards.

TTG plays The Ankh Morpork Sunshine Dragon Sanctuary.  Blue Meanies give them a card.  Hawt Rocks and PIKES each give them $1.  TTG then plays Rincewind, drawing the Flood event in Small Gods and Longwall (no effect), moves a minion from Dolly Sisters to Dragon's Landing, moving the Trouble along with, plays Foul Ole Ron, moving a Hawt Rocks minion from The Scours to Isle of Gods, removing Trouble from The Scours, and plays The Opera House, spending $6 for a building in The Scours and gaining $1.

PIKES plays Here'N'Now, rolling 9 and taking $3 from the Blue Meanies, The Fire Brigade on TTG, who does pays $5 to PIKES, and The Royal Mint, paying $6 for a building in Dolly Sisters and gaining $5.

Round 2

Blue Meanies play The Thieves Guild, gaining $2 each from Hawt Rocks and PIKES, and places a minion in Small Gods.

Hawt Rocks plays the Agony Aunts, attempting to remove a blue minion from The Shades.  The Blue Meanies play Gaspode to prevent that.  Hawt Rocks gains $2 and places a minion in Longwall.

TTG uses The Scours to sell a card for $2, plays the Pink Pussycat Club, gaining $3, Sergent Angua, removing Trouble from The Shades, and Mr. Gryle, removing a blue minion and Trouble from Dragon's Landing, and gaining $1.

PIKES plays Gimlet's Dwarf Delicatessen, gaining $3 and placing a minion in The Hippo, then uses Dolly Sisters to spend $3 to place a minion in Nap Hill.

Round 3

Blue Meanies play The Fools' Guild on TTG, who does pays $5 to the Blue Meanies to discard it, and places a minion and Trouble in Isle of Gods.

Hawt Rocks plays Dr. Cruces, removing a blue minion and Trouble from Isle of Gods and gaining $3.

TTG plays The Librarian, gaining 4 cards.

PIKES plays The Mended Drum, spending $6 for a building in The Shades and gaining $2, then spends $3 to use Dolly Sisters to place a minion in Unreal Estate.

Round 4

Blue Meanies play Drumknott, Dr. Whiteface on PIKES, who plays Wallace Sonky to negate it, places a minion and Trouble in The Shades, and Rosie Palm, giving a card to Hawt Rocks and receiving $2 in return, and placing another minion in The Shades.

Hawt Rocks plays Queen Molly, placing a minion and Trouble in Nap Hill and forcing TTG to give them 2 cards.

TTG sells a card for $2 using The Scours, plays the Bank of Ankh Morpork, gaining a $10 loan, Nobby Nobbs, stealing $3 from the Blue Meanies, and Mrs. Cake, taking a look at 2 unused personality cards, gaining $2, and spending $12 for a building in Dragon's Landing.

PIKES plays Inigo Skimmer, removing the red minion and Trouble in Nap Hill and gain $2.  Hawt Rocks plays the Fresh Start Club to move that minion to Unreal Estate, adding Trouble there.  PIKES spends $3 to use Dolly Sisters to place another minion and Trouble in Nap Hill.

Round 5

Blue Meanies play Pondor Stibbons, drawing Riots to no effect, Captain Carrot, placing a minion in Nap Hill, removing the Trouble from Nap Hill, and gaining $1, and Hex, drawing 3 cards and spending $12 for a building in Nap Hill.

Hawt Rocks plays Harga's House of Ribs, gaining $3 and placing a minion and Trouble in The Hippo.

TTG collects $2 from Dragon's Landing, discards a card with The Scours to gain $2, and plays Hobson's Livery Stable, paying $2 to PIKES, moving a minion from The Shades to Dimwell (Trouble removed from The Shades), and spending $6 to build a building in Dimwell.

PIKES uses The Shades to place a Trouble marker in Dimwell, then 'HELLO' to remove a yellow minion from Dimwell and a red minion from Unreal Estate.  TTG plays Susan, preventing the removal of the yellow minion from Dimwell, and Trouble is removed from Unreal Estate.  PIKES then spends $3 to use Dolly Sisters to place a minion and Trouble in Nap Hill.

Round 6

Blue Meanies collect $1 from Nap Hill and play Willikins, placing a minion in Nap Hill.

Hawt Rocks plays Sacharissa Crisplock, gaining $3 and placing a minion and Trouble in Dragon's Landing.

TTG collects $2 from Dragon's Landing, sells a card with The Scours for $2, and plays Sir Charles Lavatory, gaining $6.

PIKES spends $3 with Dolly Sisters to place a minion in Nap Hill, plays The Mob, placing Trouble in The Scours and a minion in The Hippo, and The Duckman to move a red minion from The Hippo to The Scours, removing Trouble from The Hippo.

Round 7

Blue Meanies collect $1 from Nap Hill, play The Smoking Gnu, placing a minion in The Scours, and the Auditors.  Hawt Rocks removes a minion and Trouble from Dragon's Landing.  TTG removes a minion and Trouble from Dimwell.  PIKES removes a minion and Trouble from The Scours.

Hawt Rocks plays Mondo, discarding a card and placing a minion and Trouble in The Shades.

TTG collects $2 from Dragon's Landing, sells a card via The Scours for $2, plays Dorfl, moving a minion from The Scours to Isle of Gods (Trouble placed in Isle of Gods), and The Post Office, gaining $6 and placing a minion in Seven Sleepers.

PIKES reveals that he is Lorde de Worde and controls 4 areas, winning the game!  Congratulations to Kevin Wilson on his victory!

End of Game Statements

Christopher Hunt (Blue Meanies, Lord Vetinari):  Thanks to Chris for his expert running of the game.  Congratulations to Kevin on his win.  Didn't notice that Unreal Estates was separate from Dolly Sisters. Concerntrating too much on buildings.

Kevin Wilson (PIKES, Lord de Worde):  Every other time I’ve been one of the lords I’ve paid as much attention to others gaining enough control to win as one of the other lords, looking to block, as I paid attention to getting to four areas. That never seemed to work. This time I just focused on getting control of areas. The idea was to either let others block or lose as before. But, a few good, early cards let me spread out and get some minions on the board and it worked. Probably more the exception than the rule. At least this time it didn’t just default Vimes or, with too many minions adding too many trouble markets, to the Dragon King.

Thanks to all for playing. Always a fun game. Thanks to Chris for running the game as usual and keeping us inline with the rules now and then.

Bill Scharf (Hawt Rocks, Crysoprase):  Congratulations to Kevin in his win, and thanks Chris for running it. Always a fun ride with this game. I never got the cards to help my character win, while others had plenty of cards to take money away from me, oh well, the cards will be different next game. I strongly prefer a one character win over Vimes winning by default any day.

Andy York (TTG, Commander Vimes):  Excellent win Kevin, totally missed your sneaking in that victory! Fun game, thanks to Chris for letting us enjoy it!

The Players

TTG is the Texas Tenement Guild.  PIKES is P-Math Institute of Klatch, Ee Section.

Board Position

Dolly Sisters: Blue, Red, and Green minions, Green building

Unreal Estate: Green minion

Dragon's Landing: Yellow minion, Yellow building

Small Gods: Blue minion

The Scours: 2 Blue and Red minions, Yellow building

The Hippo: 2 Green minions

The Shades:  3 Blue, 2 Red, and Green minions, Green building

Dimwell: Yellow building

Longwall: Red minion

Isle of Gods: Red and Yellow minions, Trouble

Seven Sleepers: Yellow minion

Nap Hill: 3 Green and 2 Blue minions, Blue building, Trouble