{"id":526,"date":"2006-02-05T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=526"},"modified":"2006-02-05T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T15:36:00","slug":"gaming-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Gaming the System"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the crew (myself, NSS&F, and the Karate Kid) went to Southern California Games Day 24<\/a> in Burbank. Had a lot of fun playing boardgames. What did I play? Let’s see: two games of Vegas Showdown<\/a> (which I like more and more as I play it), Traumfabrik<\/a> (a really neat auction game about making movies… I had Cary Grant in “Gone With The Wind”), Sleuth<\/a>, and 30 Days in the World (see below). NSS&F joined me in my first game of Vegas Showdown and Traumfabrik, as well as playing Munchkin Fu<\/a>, TTR: Europe<\/a>, and some other games she didn’t tell me about. The Karate Kid got in a game of Ra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, to 30 Days around the World. I mentioned this idea before<\/a>. This is a combination of 10 Days in Africa<\/a>, 10 Days in the USA<\/a>, and 10 Days in Europe<\/a>. We took all three games and combined them into a single mega tour of 30 days. If we had 8 games, I guess we could have done Around The World in 80 Days<\/a> right. In any case, we combined the three games, and it worked pretty well. The basic rules were derived from the games:<\/p>\n