Chewsday Challenge - North Albert Boston Pizza - July 23, 2013 (18:00)

[ChadBoudreau]

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What: ChewsDay Challenge Boardgame Night.
Where: Boston Pizza, North Albert Street (Regina)
When: Every ChewsDay Night.
Who: Anyone interested in playing boardgames.
Why: Life is Short; Play Games!

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THIS WEEK'S EVENT AMBASSADOR: Bryce Robinson
THIS WEEK'S GAME HOST: Chad Boudreau
THIS WEEK'S FEATURE GAME: Pandemic

 
GAME: Pandemic
TEACHER: Chad Boudreau
START TIME: 6:30pm
DURATION: 90 Minutes
PLAYERS 4 (5 if we include On the Brink)
1. ChadBoudreau
2. CappyZed
3. Becky
4. Fried Tempest
5. Bellis

GAME: Ticket to Ride: Märklin
TEACHER: Marc Bendig
START TIME: 6:30pm
DURATION: 90 Minutes
PLAYERS 5
1. Marc Bendig
2. Roxy72
3. Deb32
4. Jason72
5. KimberlyCupcake

GAME RoboRally
TEACHER: Matt Robertson
START TIME: 8:30pm
DURATION:120 Minutes
PLAYERS...
1. Matt Robertson
2. Tempest
3. Chad Boudreau
4. Colin Dearborn
5. One more Dearborn
6. Roxy72
7. CappyZed
8. Becky

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If you would like to schedule a game. Please post in this event thread with the following information:
Name of the game, when you would like to start, The duration of the game, and the number of players it can accommodate.

[ChadBoudreau]

Pandemic
In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand.

The game board depicts several major population centers on Earth. On each turn, a player can use up to four actions to travel between cities, treat infected populaces, discover a cure, or build a research station. A deck of cards provides the players with these abilities, but sprinkled throughout this deck are Epidemic! cards that accelerate and intensify the diseases' activity. A second, separate deck of cards controls the "normal" spread of the infections.

Taking a unique role within the team, players must plan their strategy to mesh with their specialists' strengths in order to conquer the diseases. For example, the Operations Expert can build research stations which are needed to find cures for the diseases and which allow for greater mobility between cities; the Scientist needs only four cards of a particular disease to cure it instead of the normal five—but the diseases are spreading quickly and time is running out. If one or more diseases spreads beyond recovery or if too much time elapses, the players all lose. If they cure the four diseases, they all win!

Note: We will play the new edition of the board game. New art, new characters, same great game. If there is enough player interest I will add in the new On the Brink expansion that came out a couple weeks ago.

[Bix Conners]

I will bring RoboRally out again for those wishing to experience frustration and a chaotic demise...



Imagine that you're a supercomputer. Now imagine that you're bored. So you dream up a little contest for you and a couple of your supercomputing buddies. Your task is to move one of the stupid little robots out on the factory floor through a series of checkpoints scattered throughout the factory. The wrinkle, however, is that the factory floor is filled with all kinds of inconvenient (if not down-right deadly) obstacles located in various locations: conveyor belts, crushers, flame-throwers, pushers, teleporters, oil slicks, pits, et cetera. But the real fun comes when the robots cross each other's path, and suddenly your perfect route is something less than that...

[Tempest]

Pandemic seems interesting, however, I must claim vengeance for my fallen robot, Twitch. Sign me up for Robo Rally please!

[Bix Conners]

Chad indicated that he wanted to give RoboRally a go so I changed the game time from 6:30 to 8:30.

Tempest, are you ok with that?

[Tempest]

Yep, that's fine.

[ChadBoudreau]

I've updated the information about Pandemic. We will be playing the new version of the game and if there is enough interest I will put the new On the Brink expansion into action as well.

[Colin Dearborn]

Work change for that week. I will be there.


Put me down for some Robo Rally, may as well reserve 1 spot for either Amanda or Alex too.

[roxy72]

Please add me to Robo Rally. Thanks

[Marc Bendig]

Pandemic is fun, but I have obtained a copy of Ticket to Ride which needs playing! I would like to run it for 6:30; 5 players, about 90 mins.

Note: this board is a map of Germany, not the original USA map. Hervorgarrend!