Paul David Unwin

Email: paul_unwin@hotmail.com

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Paul exhibits his prize for winning a game of Chrononauts at the Game Night held on November 15th, 2000.

Paul's Games (in pretty much the order they come to mind)

• Chrononauts: A card-based TimeTravelGame from Looney_Labs?
• Guillotine: A fun little Wizards_of_the_Coast? venture.
• Robo_Rally?: Continuing thanks to Ron_Hale-Evans? and Marty_Hale-Evans? for getting me this favorite from my college days.
• Wizard: A slick packaged version/variant of Oh_Hell?. I'm dismal at it, but nostalgic for it. I'm pretty sure Ron_and_Marty? got me this, too. They Rule.
• Elfenland: Not a bad little game.
• Simply_Cosmic?: My first experience with Cosmic_Encounter? and the Seattle Cosmic equivalent of a gateway drug.
• Pictionary?: A classic.
• Scrabble?: Another classic.
• Mutant_Chronicles?: If I ever return to Seattle Cosmic on anything like a regular basis, I'm going to push for a couple rounds of this.
• The_Great_Dalmuti?: Another college favorite. Some people despise this game, but they're peons so who cares?
• Lord_of_the_Rings?: It was a wedding present, yessss....
• Mad_Scientist?: Do not purchase this game under any circumstances.
• Phase_10?: A RummyTypeGame.
• Mancala: The original Farming Game.
• Origins?: A Trivial Pursuit wannabe all about word and phrase etymology. I have yet to play it.
• Netrunner: Just a starter deck and a couple of boosters that I won as prizesback in the early days of Seattle Cosmic.

Maybe this list should be on BoardgameGeek, and maybe someday it will be.

Games Paul Hopes to Play Again

• Twilight_Imperium?: Quite fun but takes a ghastly amount of time to play.
• Samurai: By Knizia. I'd be interested to see how a game with three or four players goes.
• Fluxx: Just about anyone should be able to enjoy this simply card game from Looney_Labs?.

Games Paul Looks Forward to Playing

• Puerto_Rico?: I finally played this game at SeattleCosmicGameNight20030215. I didn't quite see what the fuss was about, but it definitely deserves another play, maybe after I've read the rules for myself.
• Myth_Fortunes?: I hope it has made up quotes in it, like in the books. Meredith_Hale? owns this and we've always meant to play it together.
• Cities_&_Knights?: Along with all the other Settlers_of_Catan? expansions and spinoffs.
• Space_Hulk?: Now we sing the Litanies of Hate.
• Tigris_&_Euphrates?: Actually, I play rather a lot of this, but all online at Boardgame``Geek (see below).

Online Games

Due to one thing and another, I don't make it to Game Night as often as I used to. However, I still subscribe to the list and read the newsletters in order to keep up with the latest controversies, and of course I edit the Wiki. To keep the logic and strategy centers of my brain from weakening, I play OnlineGames with members of Seattle Cosmic. Here are the sites I frequent far too, um, frequently.

• ItsYourTurn: A free (as in loader) site that offers a wide range of games, including ancient classics such Chess, Checkers, and Go; and a few other well-known games under new, trademark-skirting names like "Stack-4" and "Battle Boats". The site also features a few variants for nearly every game. These games, like the rest on this list, are non-real-time, so they take a long time but users can make moves in just a few seconds a day. As with the other game sites, I short-circuit this feature by joining numerous games at once.
• BoardgameGeek: In addition to its game descriptions, reviews and a Seattle-Cosmic-inspired Wiki, Boardgame``Geek features two online games, Tigris_&_Euphrates? and Auf_Heller_und_Pfennig?. A third game, Goldland? is in the works. These games are for 2-4 players, unlike Its Your Turn, which only has two-player games. My college friends turned me on to this site and I'm doing my best to pull in members of Seattle Cosmic.
• Ludagora: This is a French gaming site, so keep an online language tool (or your own brain) handy. It offers the games Hare_and_Tortoise?, Medina?, Set, and Crazy_Circus?. One drawback, apart from the language barrier, is the lack of a method to password-restrict games as you can on Boardgame``Geek (this has now been remedied, at least for Hare and Tortoise). If you post a game, anyone can join, and most of the people who are going to want to join are offset by 9 timezones. This leads to large delays in the games, and might mean that slot you intended for a friend is taken up by a stranger.

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