Again, Mike, Owen and I were left to our own devices for game night. (Ben returns from England this week sometime.) We chose to play a new game called Monuments: Wonders of Antiquity. It’s basically a card game where you build one of 12 types of monuments by collecting and playing cards. What makes this a really good game are the various options you have during your turn and during the game. It’s not just a card collecting game. You have decide on your turn whether to use one of your precious historians which will score you points later or take ands place monument cards that will enhance your various Monuments. Board Game Geek has it rated at 6.5, but I think it’s a much better game than the rating indicates. It’s also relatively quick to play.  Â
Owen handily beat us in both games, with Mike and I coming in around the same point total.
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Amazingly we still had time for one more game so we broke out one of our favorite card games of all time, Ivanhoe. Â Ivanhoe should be a staple in any game-playing household. Even non-gamers will like this easy to play card game. It was neck and neck as we came to the final hands of the game. In the end it was Owen who crowned me the winner. Not because he wanted to, but because of his sudden loss of all his game playing skill. He basically handed the game to me on a platter. Thanks Owen! (This will probably never happen again, so I have to harass Owen while I can.)