At the Mind Cafe

Went to The Mind Cafe, another boardgaming place, @ Prinsep Street with S and StupidGenius (the fourth board gaming cafe that I've went in 8 days). Had wanted to come here on XY's birthday but was full house then. Initially, SG wanted to go OASIS at Liang Seah Street, but when we went there, we couldn't find the place. Later SG found out from his friend that OASIS was already closed down.

Arrived at the cafe after dinner at about 9pm. Tuesday was ladies night, so gaming is free for ladies. So we went for a twin package, which includes 2 drinks, 1 snack and 1 tidbit, and 2 hours of gaming. And I think it was rather reasonably priced. The place was rather cosy, and I could jolly well slouch on the sofa. The people here does not seems very enthused in interacting with the customers though...

The first game that we played was Rumis. This game is like a 3-D version of Blokus, where we played at Pitstop Cafe. It's some kind of block building game but need quite a bit of thinking to work out the strategies. At the end of the game, the winner is detemined by the most number of tiles visible when looking from the top. SG won this round.

Next we went on to play a game called Jungle Speed, a fast card game which tests our reflexes. The objective is to get rid of all the cards in our hand. In order to do so, the person would need to grab the totem when 2 cards of similar shapes appear. Apparently some of the shapes on the card are very similar and there is a penalty for grabbing the totem at the wrong time.

Finally, our last game of the day is Sorry, known as the game of "sweet revenge". This is something similar to the 飞机棋 that we all have played when we were young. The goal is to get all the pawns to the Home. But instead of rolling dice, we had to played out a card to determine how the pawns move (rather unique that a board game with no dice). We played 2 games and I won both... hehe...

Picture Courtesy of Stupid Genius

(You may wish to check out Stupid Genius' blog entry on the same event.)