January 16

Today in class, I started out learning the game Pandemic.  Pandemic is a cooperative game and I had a blast playing it.  You work with the people you are playing with in order to eliminate diseases before they spread causing an epidemic.  Too many epidemics or too many infection in one city causes the disease to spread around the world expanding the pandemic in the world.  There are a total of 4 players playing at one time, but there 5 roles.  The roles will guide you in what your special ability is, whether you can move a player around, cure diseases easier, or give away cards easier.  You can win by eliminating all the diseases or just by finding the cures for the diseases.  But there are different ways to lose as well.  The game makes you work with the ones you are playing with in order to win.  The rules were a little confusing in the beginning, but like all the games before once you start playing them it got easier.  I would definitely play the game again.

The second game we played in class was a card game and I cannot recall the name.  The game was very confusing on how to clear the board, get points, and the added rules into the game made it a little worse.  It was also kind of just thrown up and we more or less had to figure out how to play, but that caused the game to be more confusing.  I think it would have been easier to have them teach the game and have everyone watch around, so we knew how and then had them roam around answering questions.  Once we understood the rules though, the game was fun.  But there were different ways to score points and the point was to get to 40 points.  Was a fun game to play, but if it was shown off possibly a different way to eliminate some confusion that would have helped.  I like card games so this game was fun to play.