games day

We had half a dozen people over for an afternoon and evening of board games today. On Thursday it looked like we would have somewhere between 6 and 14 people; we ended up with 8 gamers and one extra for dinner. That's a good number -- small enough to be managable but large enough to support more than one game (and, thus, variety).

( Runebound, Iron Dragon, El Grande, TransAmerica )

Food quantities worked out fine. We had some chicken left (since we were a few down from the maximum number of people who could have shown up), but it'll get eaten tomorrow. Tossed salad was more popular than coleslaw; I probably don't need to bother with the latter next time. (For some reason I had predicted the reverse.) People seemed somewhat mystified by hulvah; I thought Dani had fed this to the gamers before. My oven is too darn small; two pans of breaded chicken, one pan of wings (all of these pans are about 9x12), and one cookie sheet of rolls fit only by applying compression and using the third dimension -- bah.

After dinner some people played a five- (or six-?) player game of Settlers of Catan. I am told that we need new dice; these ones weren't producing the numbers people wanted. :-) I was gamed-out by then, so I chatted with lorimelton and wanderingpixie while the others played.