Blog Post 2: Boardgame Lab

During lab, we tested a couple of games until we found two games to play till finish. The first two games that we tried were Settlers of Catan (I picked this) and Carcassone (David picked this). There was too many rules to keep track and remember that we went for games that had a shorter list of rules. We picked card games that were Scrimish (I picked this) and Suitors (Ly picked this). They were simple and had elements of past card games that we were familiar with.

The most enjoyable game was Suitors compared to Scrimish where it didn't require too much memorization and strategization. Suitors focused more on decision-making and luck.

In the card game, there was Taek, David, Candice, Ly and me (from left to right) who were playing. David was the selected mate, who we will all try to win his hand in marriage.

The set-up starts everyone with three cards, and the rest of the cards are faced down in a drawing deck. The cards are classified in three images. There are the crown, gold coin, and heart cards from highest to lowest points. There are also numbers on the cards. The numbers are in priority and then the images. Basically, each player puts one card in the middle and see who keeps the played pile. The player with the highest card, collects all the cards into their pile.



The card with 9 coins is the winning card in this pile because number is priority.

There are times where we have special cards with instructions such as player keeps all cards. Then, we all take one card from the drawing deck after everyone's turn.


That bunny card is a special card, which I played. That card let's me collect all the heart cards in the played pile (the cards that are facing up). There is only one heart card, so that card was mine.






To end the game, everyone must run out of cards, and we count how many points in everyone's card collection to see who won with the most points.

(This card game is similar to 'I Declare War' card game, which was popular during my elementary and middle school years.)

We all took turns going in clockwise direction starting with David. The order we played in was David, Candice, Ly, me and Taek.

Typically, in this game, the selected mate is the dealer and cannot play to win their own heart. However, we bent the rules and had David play so he doesn't sit there and watch.

In the middle of the card game, I won some cards but lost it all to a played special card.

I came in last place with zero cards. Sadly, I am the least desirable to take David's hand in marriage.



At the end, Taek (left) won David's (right) heart.