January 17

Today in class, we had a tournament in the card game that we learned Thursday.  It was fun, but the rules were a little confusing still.  We knew the rules better than we did on Thursday.  Me and my partner lost all 3 games we played, but that was because the cards were not on our side.  We just couldn't get the cards we needed so we could win.  After we lost all three times, we played pandemic.  I played it previously, but setting the game up this time was a little harder because we didn't have an expert with us.  We were able to win which was nice and it allowed the other two people who didn't know how to play, learn how to play.  Pandemic is a fun game to play especially when you have players who know what they are doing, and they can win.

After we finished our game, we had a speaker come in and talk to us about the importance of board games and how over time they have expanded and grew.  He was an interesting speaker showing how board games grew for a task and something to do, to something major and dealing with community and getting to know people through the active participant of playing a board game.