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Monday night we were all Princes of Florence<\/em>. At least as far as the game we played. This game involves developing a player\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Palazzi <\/em>in to an area that will attract various professions and artisans who will then complete great works. The greater the work, the more Prestige Points you get. At the end of seven rounds the player with the most Prestige Points wins and becomes the Prince of Florence. Each round is broken into two phases: the auction phase and the action phase. In the auction phase, the players bid for various \u00e2\u20ac\u0153objects\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which improve their Palazzi which in turn can improve the works created there. \u00c2\u00a0In the action phase the player can take two actions that either improve his Palazzi or completes a great work. Completing a great work earns him money and\/or Prestige Points.<\/p>\n In our game, Owen shot out to early lead in Prestige Points. He soon lost the lead and was never heard from again. In his place was Mike. Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lead became more commanding as the game went on. I believe at one point he had 40 points while the rest of us were struggling around 20 points. But fate is a fickle mistress. As the game was coming to a close, we were all able shorten Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lead somewhat. Some of us even had a plan. Why are you looking at me? No, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t me. It was Ben. Ben had been hording prestige cards that can earn you from 0 to 8 points each at the end of the game. He used these to good effect. While me and Owen languished in third and LAST place respectively, Ben hoovered up enough points to go two points ahead of Mike and win the game.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n It should be noted that during this game Ben and I switched brains. While Ben was making what appeared to be random, unpredictable, and insignificant decisions, I was trying to cheat. While not actually purposely cheating, I did inadvertently (and without conscious choice) try to cheat a few times\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust like Ben. \u00c2\u00a0So in essence, since Ben won the game using my<\/em> brain, I claim victory!<\/p>\n Chaos Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday night we were all Princes of Florence. At least as far as the game we played. This game involves developing a player\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Palazzi in to an area that will attract various professions and artisans who will then complete great works. The greater the work, the more Prestige Points you get. At the end of […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boardgames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}