{"id":184,"date":"2010-01-20T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T13:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=184"},"modified":"2010-01-20T08:11:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T13:11:24","slug":"agricola-ivanhoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Agricola &#038; Ivanhoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180\" title=\"agricola\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/agricola.jpg\" alt=\"agricola\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\nWe played <em>Agricola<\/em> last week. Since Ben won and Ben was the only one to ever have played it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand he had played it a lot\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe thought a rematch was in order. \u00c2\u00a0So we began; all mindful of the strategies we had missed in the first game. Uh, actually, judging from this game, we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t learn squat from our first game.<\/p>\n<p>All of our farms looked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 As you will see, that does not necessarily translate into more points. Ben\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s farm looked much as it did the first game, although he was scrambling to feed his ever growing family. Mike seemed to concentrate on sheep. And for this he received a lot of sheep related comments. Mike also concentrated on family members . Owen concentrated on Improvements. He had a card that would earn him big points at end game time. Me, I made the mistake of concentrating on two things and doing neither well. This, and a misunderstanding of a couple of cards (apparently I should have read the FAQ) cost me dearly.<\/p>\n<p>So how did the game end? If you remember from last week Ben won with 43 points and I came in last with 28 points. This week, Ben won again, but with only 28 points. Mike was right on his butt&#8211;so to speak&#8211;with 27 points. \u00c2\u00a0Owen got an acceptable 24 points and I was once again last with an unfathomable 10 points. (But at least I was positive.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115\" title=\"ivanhoe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ivanhoe.jpg\" alt=\"ivanhoe\" width=\"40\" height=\"60\" \/><br \/>\nWe managed to finish this game in a lightening 2 hours, so we played <em>Ivanhoe<\/em>. \u00c2\u00a0I took an early lead, but ran into some difficulties\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6mainly my strategy and logic. Soon Ben, Owen, and I and were all one color chip from winning. In the end, despite my best efforts to the contrary, I won the game.<\/p>\n<p>Chaos Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We played Agricola last week. Since Ben won and Ben was the only one to ever have played it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand he had played it a lot\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe thought a rematch was in order. \u00c2\u00a0So we began; all mindful of the strategies we had missed in the first game. Uh, actually, judging from this game, we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boardgames","tag-agricola","tag-ivanhoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}