The second game we played on Monday, November 21, 2005 was Ingenious -- 2 of us played.
It was just Chris and Jake for ths game.
Ingenious is a great tile-laying game created by Reiner Knizia - who is among the greatest game designers working today. The game came out last year.
The board is basically a honeycomb of hexagons. The tiles played are two conected hexagons. When you lay down a tile, you recieve points for any like-colored lines of hexagons the radiate from that tile in any direction. There are six different colors, and they are scored seperately on a scoring card in front of each player.
Knizia always throws in a twist -- in this game, your score is equal to whichever color you have the least of. So, you are constantly trying to beef up your lowest scores, while also trying to block off lines of colors of your opponent's low scoring colors. If you get more than 18 points of any color, you get to lay an extra tile, so it can be beneficial to work on your high scores, too.
Here's how the scorecards looked at the end:
| Ingenious Score Card (a "+" means the score went off the card) | ||||||
| player | red | green | blue | orange | yellow | purple |
| Chris | 12 | + | + | 16 | 8 | 8 |
| Jake | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 12 | + |
Chris won with a lowest score of 8, vs. Jake's 6.
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