Sunday, December 20, 2015

That Sinking Feeling

We decided to get dinner in SE PDX and ended up at HUB. Liz had us play...

Deep Sea Adventure 2-6 players
I saw a playthrough of this on a marathon and thought it was simple and cool. You each play as competing deep sea treasure divers on a budget. You are sharing a sub and oxygen supply. Everyone starts on the sub and rolls dice (2 D6s with values 1-3) to dive deeper to get treasure. Deeper treasure tends to have more value, but is harder to get safely. As soon as you pick up a treasure you start to exhaust the air supply and also move slower. The more treasure you have, the more air you use and less you move. If you make it back to the sub before air runs out, you get to keep what you got. If not, you pass out and drop your treasure to the bottom. After three rounds of this, the player with the most value in treasure wins.
On our first play, Liz was very greedy, but slowly learned how to play smartly. See didn't make it out with any treasure in any of the rounds. In the second game, she played even smarter. Added with the luck of rolling really high most of the time and she couldn't lose.
I feel like this is going to be one of those tiny game I always bring with me now. How couldn't I? It's just so much bang for a tiny box.

After this, we played 3 games of Lost Cities. I easily won the first game. The second game was tight with me winning by about 5 or 7 points. The third game was just as tight, but Liz won by about 4 points.

Tally: 153/179  Bonus: 40/50

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