Harrowed Halls

Our friend Owen is away (in jolly ol’ England) so that left Ben, Mike and me to fend for ourselves as far as game night was concerned. We all decided to play an old favorite, Stone Age.  We discovered that it’s a pretty good 3-player game too. Stone Age is a resource gathering game where there are lots of ways to score those all-important victory points. Many points can be scored during the game, but the majority are scored at the end of the game. So let’s skip to the end of the game or rather the very last turn just before the game ended… 

Ben was at least 20 points ahead of Mike and me. Mike and Ben also knew I was going to get a lot of points from Workers and Fields. As we placed our final workers looking for the best way to score points, Ben had a decision to make. Should he place to score a few points for himself? Or should he place to take a few points away from me? Mike tried and tried to convince him that he should steal points from me, but in the end Ben chose to garner a few points for himself. Mike commented that it would be great if he lost by only a few points. 

We totaled up the scores and low and behold, Ben and I were tied at 192 points each! In hindsight, had Ben chosen to take points from me, he would have won hands down. Now we had to go to the tie breaker: who had the most Workers, Fields, and Tools. Thanks to my huge amount of Workers and Fields, I was victorious. After the ticker tape parade through the city, we all left for home.