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[fflo]

In today's trivia contest I failed to name the popular game whose board is pictured here (click for bigger):

         

I guessed it involved trains, and went with "Overland Express," which if it is a board game would be a helluva coincidence.

I saw the film Rawhide yesterday.  It's set at a stagecoach station.  Some actors I don't particularly like (Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward) are being held hostage there.  I like Edgar Buchanan, but he's killed off in the first reel.  The most absorbing thing about it is the face of young Jack Elam, at its drawn crazy best.  Apparently his one immobile eye was the result of a fellow boy scout, when Jack was 12, throwing a pencil at him (and the point landing you-know-where).  Ouch!  But he was an accountant before he was in the movies.  His accounting work got him into pictures.  You could look it up.

About time to go to work.  I had the morning off.  It rocks to have the morning off sometimes.

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[paperkingdoms]

It's Ticket to Ride. I may spend my time proctoring this exam considering the potential rules for Overlord Express, though.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oooh, OverLORD Express. That's a train of a different flavor.

[paperkingdoms]

Hee. I had to go back to see what you'd actually typed, because I'd totally read it as "overlord".

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Yours is better. :)

[paperkingdoms]

My current thoughts on this are that each player draws a city to be the location of their base of operations for World Domination. And must connect their base of operations to various other locations on the map... perhaps everyone wants to reach NYC and Chicago and Miami and LA? And accomplishing that earns you a certain number of points.

But there are also points for, by the end of the game, being able to guess where each other player's base of operations is, and also points for having no one guess where yours is. So that sneakiness is also required / rewarded.

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

I have never seen that game board before. I don't think their definition if popular is the same as mine.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

It looks fun, somehow, to me.

[paperkingdoms]

It is! It's one of the more entry level of the German/euro-style board games, in that it does *not* take the better part of an hour to explain the rules. You collect cards of various colors to put trains on the board (on the lines mapped out) to complete various routes for different point values.

[stormdog.livejournal.com]

Yay, Ticket to Ride!

It is fairly popular among board game geeks. Which is to say, it's probably not terribly well known. I see it as comparable to Settlers of Cataan in terms of being a good introductory game, except I enjoy it more than Settlers.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I thought Rawhide was a TV show. The things I learn.

I think I've seen people play that board game at conventions.

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I've played that one. My brother has a fair number of train games, but I don't think he's pulled one out for Christmas in at least 5 years.

Also: Jack Elam is awesome.

[bigfinedaddy.livejournal.com]

I certainly do know it. I own the game, and also play the app on my phone very frequently. You can come play it at my house if it looks fun to you. I like it a lot. It's a simple game, like the others have said, but it's fun. Super easy to learn.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I'd love to. Or learn some other one of the many. You tell me when.