After five weeks, Carol and I have played ten games of the Kosmos two-player series. I thought I'd do a summary post before moving on to the next ten.
The games we've played, in the order we played them, and the winner:
- Lost Cities - Carol
- Caesar & Cleopatra - Ipecac
- The Pyramids of the Jaguar - Carol
- Kahuna - Ipecac
- Ingenious - Ipecac
- The Reef - Ipecac
- Dragonheart - Ipecac
- Heave Ho - Carol
- Balloon Cup - Ipecac
- Hellas - Ipecac
Of these games, we've played Lost Cities the most times previously, while Dragonheart was the first playing for both of us. I had played everything else on the list at least once, and most of them many times. In addition to Dragonheart, The Reef and Hellas were both new to Carol.
The most similar games on the list are Heave Ho and Balloon Cup, both of which involve playing number cards to the board to improve a player's total or hurt their opponent's total before a scoring is triggered. The most unique is probably Hellas which has some elements of a very simple wargame. The game with the most beautiful artwork, in my opinion, is Caesar & Cleopatra, although you can see that they're all pretty great looking.
While I have a seven to three lead in the series, many of the games I won were very close. Carol was one play away from winning at Kahuna, The Reef, and Hellas. The only true blow-outs were Lost Cities in Carol's favor and Caesar & Cleopatra in mine.
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| Caesar & Cleopatra |
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| Hellas |
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| Dragonheart |
I'm most looking forward to playing Dragonheart again and I think Pyramids of the Jaguar is under-appreciated in gaming circles. Carol says she's most interested in playing Dragonheart and The Reef again. I've enjoyed playing each of them, especially since it's been with Carol.
So now it's on to the next ten. First up is a recent purchase, Blue Moon, by my favorite designer, Reiner Knizia.
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