Monkeys on the Moon – Sunday Night Coffee Gaming 2006-03-19
by Karrde on Mar.20, 2006, under Games
In attendance: Staci, Lisa, Ken, and myself (Jake)
Ken brought this along with him, and when we dropped down to 4 players we took a spin at it. This was a first time for everyone except Ken. After a quick explanation of the rules we proceeded to commence.
We immediately screw something up by not putting out the first batch of monkeys before the first civ round. This was followed by a further screwup of auctioning all 5 monkeys the first time around. These errors were realized on the first replenishment however and play proceeded.
Arrangement of tribes were: Black, Green, Red, Blue, Brown, and Purple. Black took a solid lead after 2 rounds, and remained that way throughout the game. I curred so much favor with them that I was the first to incur monkey scorn from the blue tribe. Play proceeded smoothly however with some of us having a hard time launching a ship, being inflicted with a 4 ship right off the bat.
I claimed many a monkey, quite to the detriment of my coin stack. While watching Ken amass quite the stack of favor chips. In the end this seemed to be my undoing and his benefit. The game ended it quite the landslide:
Ken – 17
Staci – 10
Lisa – 10
Jake – 10
While none of us ran screaming (from the game at least) this will take some consideration before I decide to play again.
Game Rating: 5/10
