MOST HELIRIOUS SETTLERS GAME EVER!!

This afternoon I went down to NUS Science Dept to meet up with the Applied Chemistry students. We (CY / LL / LT) then proceed to West coast McCafe to sip coffee, eat brownies and play settlers game to pass time in the late afternoon.

Start the first game soon and and it was a dream game for me. I am the 3rd player to start so have abit of advantage on placing the 3rd / 5th settlements. Then everyone keep rolling 8 / 8 / 8 / 8...three of us keep on getting various resources non-stop until we cannot hold the cards in one hand...except CY.

So in the end I won the 1st game in record time...less than 30 mins!!! Due to the quickness of the game...we actually thought we can squeeze in a 2nd game within the next 1 hour....so we procedd to reshuffle and play the 2nd game...BAD MISTAKE!!!

For a start, the ORE hexagon got 11/12 and a 9. Then when we all placed our settlements nicely...CY decided to squeeze into the small little area already crowded with me and LL. 3 is really a crowd!!!

Despite repeated warning of the overcrowdedness and also rightly pointed to her that there is a empty 9 ORE spot to settle in nicely...she insist to disturb the peace. While she happily placed her last 8th settlement, that immediately cut off my potential linkage of my two settlements.

Since she so first, she roll a 7 and placed the robber in our RED 8 hexgagon for weeds. Then she quickly build a road and force her way out of the mess, and that also leave LL no where to go...All LL can do later on is just building benzene ring with 6 branches.

So with no ORE in all our hand, everyone have nothing to do except building roads. I got 8, LT got 10 and CY have 12. (LL only have 6 - branches off the benzene ring don't count!!)

After 1 hour...and we are still building road...we keep asking : "Anyone have weeds ?? " (Needed to build settlement) but all we can do is stare at CY because our RED 8 HEX was blocked. Cannot buy soldier to chase away the robber as there is no weeds in the first place...all signs are pointing to a boring game with overrun of time...my cold work permit is expiring soon too.

And CY seems to be the runaway winner...slowly but surely.

Finally decided that instead of CY having fun alone, why not we change the strategy a little bit and speed up / spice up the game a bit too!!! In that way...at least 3 of us have fun rather than just 1.

"LT - what do u need? Sheep? Oh yes...I have 2 , all yours, just pass me any 1 card in return."

"LT - what do u need? Ore? Okok...i go exchange 2:1, now i have already. Take this...give me any card u don't need."

"LT - what do u have? plenty of woods?? Oh I am soooooo desperate for wood, willing to exchange all my cards on hand for just 1 wood"

You should hear how hard the 3 of us laughed and see how black CY face is. Her jaw open up in disbelieve and almost touching the ground.

We are all wondering when is she finally going to burst and flip the table. Luckily she manage to control herself and seems to be able to see the big picture...we really need to end the game really fast and also instill some fun into the game...at her expense of course.

So after 3 rounds of undertable drealings er...not really it's actually abovetable dealings in fact, LT managed to piped her to win the game 10-8. We really laugh very very hard during those last 10 minutes.

In the end, we managed to complete the game at 6.30pm...if not we could have stucked there till 8pm! Along the way we also set a few records -

1. Fastest game - < 30 mins
2. Whenever we play with CY - she never win
3. Whenever I play with CY - I always win
(LL - u seems not agree with this point - dun u think I am actually the real winner in the last game Hahahaha)
4. Most beautiful benzene road linkage - Fully completed hexagon with all 6 braches out
5. Confirmation that CY is still mad about building roads - she actually used up all her roads!!

As it all subsides later...just would like to say thanks to them for a fun filled late afternoon. I really had a good laugh about the game and feel younger. Alamak, only thing missing is that we forgot to take a picture together...and for others to see CY long black face at the spur of the moment....hahahahaha.