Monday night post prayer meeting: Torres! Li Zhen, Brian were newbies to this game, though they had fun building gigantic walls out of the castle blocks prior to playing already, so they chose to play this game to see what it's about. I being the experienced, one, had a slight advantage...but Brian being the slow-thinker learned the game well enough that he played pretty good. Li Zhen was just playing for fun, I think.

It was a pretty close game, and I don't remember many details about it. Brian and I were tied after the first phase, but because of the ordering, I leaped into the lead by 1. The second phase was so close that the three scoring markers were in consecutive spaces on the scoring track! In the third phase, Li Zhen managed to get up to level 8 on a castle with surface area 11, which I think is the highest-scoring knight ever. Brian managed to get to level 7. I was at level 5, and Brian was trying to block me from going higher and made the adjacent space level 7. Little did he know that he played right into my hand...I had the "door-to-door" card, and was able to sneak into that level 7 space by going through the door on the top block of the level-8 space. And that's how I won the game!

A good game by all, but I probably won due to more experience with the game...

Final scores:

After phase 1: Li Zhen 32, Brian 40, Me 41.
After phase 2: Li Zhen 118, Brian 119, Me 120.
After phase 3: Li Zhen 270, Brian 267, Me 282.