Game Session

 We played Fresco tonight, a game I have had for a few years and had played with my brother, but it seemed fresh and new breaking it out tonight. It is a worker placement game where you are buying and blending paints to restore a fresco in a cathedral. It has similarities to other euro-games but has what I consider a few cool & interesting decision mechanics. Whoever is last goes first in selecting times when your workers wake up. This in turn effects their happiness/mood which can get you another worker, the order of paint selection at the market, and the cost you pay per paint. You then have to decide by secret plotting behind a screen where you will send your workers: to the market, to paint part of the fresco, to do portraits to earn extra money, to blend paints for more valuable colors, or to go to the theater to raise your worker's happiness. A bishop also moves around the fresco, and can give you bonus points if he is near the part of the fresco you restore. It has enough cool decisions that interplay with each other that makes it interesting (and tense!) but not too many. The game also can be played in an hour and is shorter than heavier games. Our game was tense with the first three spots separated by a single point! Some smart decisions by Charles helped shut out other players from getting more points on the last turn.



My decision-making view as green, in the lead, but got passed in the end.

We again played Kingdom builder and I did better, but still find myself not "seeing" better placements for my settlements.

Kingdom Builder
1- Tyler H, 2- Brett H, 3- CharlesG, 4- Mike H

Fresco
1- Lauren T, 2- Charles G, 3- Brett H, 4- Tyler H