{"id":192,"date":"2010-02-09T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=192"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:10:22","slug":"settlers-of-catan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Settlers of Catan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Settlers
\nLast night we played Settlers of Catan<\/em>, but we played it on a one-of-a-kind super board made by our own Ben Hodgson. Although we certainly gave Ben a hard time about this or that during the game–as we always do\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe really did a nice job on the game board pieces. And he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already talking about future changes he can make to it to improve it.<\/p>\n

At the start of our game Owen said something extremely clever (as he usually does.) Mike said for me to be sure to remember it for today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s write-up. Mike said to write it down so I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget it. Mike said he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d even provide the pen and paper to write it down. Well Mike said a lot of things and after a while all I heard were dolphin clicks. On the other hand, you should have heard what Owen<\/em> said; it was great–very funny.<\/p>\n

First I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell you how the game ended. Ben won. And had he not won on his turn, Owen would have won. And had Owen not won on his turn, I would have won. And had I not won on my turn, Mike would have won. That shows you just how close the game was. Looking back over the game, Mike and Ben were rich in Resource Cards throughout the game. I though Mike was going to announce a win many times over, but apparently he had no luck picking up any Development Cards with victory points on them. And he picked up A LOT of Development Cards. Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s starting position caused him to be a little hemmed in too. Still, he did amazingly well. Owen suffered from some bad luck as far as Resource Cards were concerned. His hand continually waxed and waned. I was Resource Card poor. Where I should have been drowning in bricks to feed to my 2:1 port, it was not to be.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll leave with a little Ben-wisdom. (Boy, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see that often: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ben\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wisdom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d used in the same sentence.)<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wood is like gold dust.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 –Ben Hodgson<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

By Chaos Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night we played Settlers of Catan, but we played it on a one-of-a-kind super board made by our own Ben Hodgson. Although we certainly gave Ben a hard time about this or that during the game–as we always do\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe really did a nice job on the game board pieces. And he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already talking about […]<\/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":[16],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boardgames","tag-settlers-of-catan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}