new (to us) game: Seven Ages

Today we played Seven Ages. Dani had played once at Origins; the game was new to the rest of us. We had the full complement of seven players.

This is a long game if you play it all the way through. A review that Dani read put it roughly like this: there are the games where you invite some people over for an afternoon. And then there are the games where you plan a month in advance for a long day, playing through lunch and dinner. Seven Ages isn't like that; for it you plan half a year in advance for a long weekend and begin accumulating spousal karma points.

Needless to say, we played a subset of the game. (This was true for Dani at Origins as well.) Fortunately, there are ways to partition it reasonably. We ended up playing one age, more or less.

( overview of the game )

( game report )

( a few nit-picks )