(This post would have boardgamegeek links if the site weren't down at the time.)
Five players.
Enemy Chocolatier - surprisingly complicated for a Cheapass game! I was one chocolate shy of completing my recipe first, apparently because I can't count. (Moreso, after my income stream was set I chose poorly between going for the recipe and going for popularity.)
Shadows over Camelot - Sir Kay completed the Lancelot's armor quest and then spent the rest of the game killing siege engines (beyond being Sir Kay my hand was fortuitously heavy on Fight cards) while the other four went on the other missions together. Nobody was a traitor so everyone won easily.
Wits & Wagers - I inadvertently guessed exactly right on the weight of the heaviest sumo wrestler, and knew cold the year in which the Watergate burglars were arrested. (The rest of the table explained how one could plausibly miss that one.) All for naught, as I underestimated Fox's ability to report a huge, huge number of people trying out for Season 2 of American Idol.
Pictelephone (like the old telephone game, but not: odd # of players in a circle, each with a sheet of paper. write a sentence, pass it on. draw a picture of that sentence and fold the sentence over, pass it on. write a sentence of that picture and fold the picture over [...] until the person on the other side of you writes a sentence that may vaguely resemble your original sentence) - Julia and I both got to draw our versions of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. I thought "A tree grows in Brooklyn" would stay more intact than it did.
Posted by Matt Bruce at August 12, 2008 02:29 PM