New Game: Pick and Pack!
Tony and I played this new game that I've just picked up the day before. We had Berkant and Mike as floating audience...heh. Both of us played for the first time, but I thought I had a slight advantage after having self-played (though badly) once before. And off we go...well, Tony was constantly picking up lots of apples, so I fell behind with that. It was about picking up apples in the beginning, and trying to do various actions later in the game. I put a premium on one of my better crates with only 2 trays on it, and put a wholesale on one of Tony's crates that had a tray with 6 apples. Then Tony put two wholesales on two of my crates, leaving me with only one crate left in play. But since Tony blocked one of my premium tiles, that means that this crate would remain open for the rest of the game. Close to the end, I made a strange maneuver to swap one of my 1-apple trays with one of Tony's 2-apple trays utilizing a rush order action. Little did I know then, this would be a game breaker for me, as I won by 1 point! Tony had 13 + 4(.5) + 10 + 14(premium) for 41 points, while I had 5(.5) + 4(.5) + 18(premium) + 15 for 42 points. Nice! Not a bad game, though it does burn the brain just a little. Tony mentioned that he was only looking for me to get fewer apples while I was looking to prevent him from taking certain actions, which was certainly true. So now I'm going to lose the next time...heh.
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