From: Richard Pardoe <RPardoe@...>
Subject: [trivalleygamers] Invitation to Games - 15 July
To: trivalleygamers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:02 PM

The half played game of AUTOMOBILE seemed to have planted a seed with a few of us as we found ourselves this week in a four player game – but a full game of the game.  The first rounds did start a bit slower.  Not only because of only four players, but I believe we learned from last week to be a bit more measured before moving forward.  The first two rounds saw all of the produced cars being sold – but also saw a lot of distributers.  Our first production shortage was in Round 3 where the low priced cars sold 17 of the 18 available cars.  Things would have been much worse but 8 distributers did reduce the available cars from the 25 produced that round.  The high priced cars were also over-produced by one car.  The final round saw the potential for lots of production.  Rich played it cautiously and didn’t produce the full allotment of cars (holding a 2 and a 3 demand tile helped with that decision).  In the end, both the low and the mid cars were over produced by 2 models.  We also saw that passing seemed to be a decent action in the last round as folks tried to maximize their end-game capital.

Tim: $5010 / Dave: $4660 / Rich: $4360 / Ricardo: $3870

Was thinking that this week we lighten up the games a tad, trying a few more shorter games.  If anyone has a specific game they would like to suggest – by all means do so when responding.  Otherwise, I will see what might work for the headcount we get.  So who is up for

GAMES:

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Wednesday Night, 18:30 to ~21:00
My house in San Ramon
(Contact me off-list if you need directions)

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Rich