January 8, 2013

• Card Games (With photos)

  So my little brother is heading back to college tomorrow and we spent the day today eating McDonald’s, watching Casino Royale, and playing some card games. I thought I’d take a couple pics of the card games.

  

  This first one is of the Star Wars Collectible Card Game by Decipher. I actually bought my other brother a box full of cards for a different game and the one who is leaving for college was more excited about it than him! So I thought that maybe I’d break out some of my old Star Wars cards from the late 90′s and he and I would play a few games. It took over two hours the first game because I had forgotten the rules over the last 12 years and he didn’t know them in the first place. I won the first game and he won the second. The first game was just a bunch of characters, but for the second I got out some of my star cruisers (Rebel) and Star Destroyers (Dark Side) and we had a lot more fun. Great game and I can’t wait til he comes back after his year is over and we can play a few more times.

  

  This second game is one of my Christmas presents he bought me. It is a Monopoly card game by Hasbro. It is much simpler than the Star Wars game, but is a lot more like chess in that you have a finite number of cards in the deck and there is no trading cards in or out. So far I’ve been winning games at about a 75% clip. If he gets the right cards he can win, but I’ve more or less figured out the timing for this game and until he does too I’ll have the upper hand. . This game is also much much shorter in length than the Star Wars game. We can probably play at least three games in the same time frame it takes to play one game of Star Wars.

  Anyone else out there familiar with these games? How about 7th seas(this is the game that I bought for my other brother and have yet to play with him)?

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