It was Nicholas's last games night before he leaves the World Centre, so we chose Saboteur, one of his favourites.
Nicholas brought Saba for her first night, so hopefully she enjoyed and we will see here again.
As you can see Siyamak, Jothi, Kurt, Sudeshna, Sanjukta, Nicholas, Saba and myself played Saboteur. It was the night of Saboteurs with Saba "teur" being a saboteur twice. However, inspite of the saboteurs winning the first two rounds. Nicholas (who was never a saboteur and had no gold going into the last round) won the game by finding the gold and getting 6 nuggets from his two cards.
In the middle of the game Minoo brought out her surprise dessert: Vermicilli pudding. Always a treat.
Round two was very interesting. As you can see the golddiggers found two stones, but the active saboteurs managed to make the golddiggers circumambulate the gold foiling Nicholas's predicted victory.
Nicholas had to go by ten so Sanjukta, Siyamak, Nicholas and I played a game of La Strada, while the rest socialized. Kurt replaced Sanjukta as she wanted to socialize with Minoo, because this was one of her last times to see Minoo for a while.
This was a very competitive and close game. Siyamak (yellow) and I (black) boxed Sanjukta (grey) in at the start with the our placement of workshops. This left Nicholas (brown) with a whole side of the board to himself. Sanjukta and then Kurt managed to get around the box and we all eventually ended up sharing all of Nicholas's settlements with him. There was not a single settlement connected to by only one person.
The final score was Siyamak 23, Roger 23, Nicholas 22 and Kurt 21. Siyamak won, because he had one resource left over and I had none (I had to waste two in the last turn). This was the first four player game of La Strada that I have played where the starter (Nicholas) has not won. Siyamak was the last to start. Joey came during the game and socialized with the others.
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