met guirong and yeeling at bedok interchange for dinner. after which we took 32 to katong and met kaijing and lena who had katong laksa for their dinner. while they were having their dinner kailin came. after that, we waited for huixin before we headed to the settlers' cafe nearby.

there are 7 of us, guirong, yeeling, lena, kaijing, kailin, huixin and me. meiqun couldnt join us as she had gastric flu and she was the one who suggested it i think. we played quite a number of games. and i have tried to list down all the games we played and the ways we played them. =) i think we were rather troublesome there. lol. i lost my battery and we accidentally spilled the water.

saboteur: there are 2 different kinds of players: the miners who are supposed to find the gold and the saboteurs who are supposed to stop the miners to find the gold. each turn we can either build a tunnel, stop another person from building the tunnel, free a person, use the special cards or discard any one card from our hand and we will be drawing one card to replace that card. so we'll be holding only 5 cards at any one time.

there are 4 types of cards, the block card, unblock card, special cards as well as the route cards. the first type i mentioned is the block cards which is used to stop other people from building the routes until they free themselves or another person free them - so let's say if you are the miners, you would want to use this card to stop the saboteurs (which can be seen from how they build the routes) from blocking ur path. however as we do not know each others positions, there is also a likelihood that you will be blocking your team mates. the other kind of card is the unblock cards which can be used to free your team-mates or anyone on the table. the third kind of card is special cards. there is one kind of which you are allowed to take a peek at the 3 different ending points to find out if it is the gold or not. then you can choose to either lie or tell the truth. and there is another kind of card which is used to destroy routes which are already made. so if you are the saboteurs, you may try to destroy routes which will help the miners to get to the gold mine. and likewise the miners will destroy any of the dead ends which leads to no more buildig of routes to the goldmine. and finally, the last kind of card is the tunnel routes cards which have many different kinds of routes for us to build the tunnel. everyone is free to build the tunnels unless they are blocked by the others.

so the game will end if the miners managed to find the goldmine of which the miners win. or if the miners didnt managed to find the mines and there are already 7x5 tunnel cards are made or if there are no more reasonable routes which can be made, then the saboteurs win.

quite a fun game i would say. i like it quite a lot. =)

jurassic jumbo: there will be a few sets of cards with different colors and numbers, just like uno. but in this case, there will be a card which is being removed and instead a wild card is placed in. so this set of cards with the card removed will never be able to form a set. and of course, all of us don't know which set it is as it is randomly removed.

anyway, the aim of the game is to complete a set first, and we do that by having open-out-cry trading - we decide who to change the cards with as well as how many to change for. however when we trade, we gotta make sure that the cards that we want to trade should have the same color codes. and so the first person who managed to complete the set will discreetly take a bone. (it is possible as the rest of us would be busy trading cards) any others who saw her doing that will also have to take a bone. hence the last person who didnt get any bone will be forfeited.

this game is pretty fun. haha. according to lena, she already completed her set and yet noone realised that there is one missing bones and the rest of us still continue trading. lol. however, we didnt really play according to the game as some of us traded cards which are of different colors which is actually much easier to get a set. haha. but it is still fun.

we had a toilet break before we played the next few games. in the mean-time, huixin and guirong played a 2-person game (i forgot what is the name of the game) which they had to use a lot of brain power. the game objective is to get as much space as possible with the different kinds of bricks we have. however,the tips of your differently-shaped bricks has to touch another in order to continue the game and the sides of the bricks of the same color (which will be either solely yours, or the opponent's) cannot touch each other. quite a brain teaser kind of game but will kill millions of brain cells.

ugly doll: it is a memory game. the cards will be messed up in a pile and each of us has a turn to open the cards. then if there are any 3 cards of the same kind, we gotta snatched it and shout ugly doll. lol. most of the time, the few of us will grab one piece each. so actually the game will continue for quite some time as these cards will be turned over and messed up again. and so we have to sort of start all over to find the 3 cards of the same kind. and lucky me always managed to find the 3 cards peacefully, without anyone else snatching for it. lol

taboo: this game is something like charade, just that we are supposed to describe the word, without sayin any of the 5 forbidden words on the list. quite tricky but fun as well. but sometimes the brain just registered the word, forgetting the 5 forbidden words and no choice, and so we got to go on to the card. quite fun and every one of us had a try.

kill doctor lucky: this is one of the more complicated game we had played. quite a challenging game as well especially suitable for a game of 7 people like us. however this game is pretty confusing. it is the opposite of cluedo, whereby instead of finding the murderer, we are supposed to kill this doctor.

there are 3 different kinds of cards: the failure cards, murder card as well as the movement cards. the failure card is used to stop another person to kill doctor lucky so you can have the chance to kill him yourself. the murder card is used to kill doctor lucky with the amount of stabs of which the greater the number, the better since there are limited amount of failures cards. lastly, the move cards can "teleport" either you to a place (which can be where doctor lucky is) or doctor lucky to a place (most likely where you will be) or simply just move doctor lucky or yourself a few steps (mainly will be to get close to killing him) depending on the nature of the card.

and of course the main objective of the game is to kill doctor lucky without anyone seeing you, meaning you can not be killing doctor lucky in front of any other players (aka no other players should be in the same room as you when you kill doctor lucky) and doctor lucky also moves a step after every turn. for us, we can choose to either use the cards on our hand after we move a step or draw 2 cards before ending our turn.

a challenging game which sets you to strategise but this is not the kind of game that we will like to play since it is also quite time-consuming. and so we move on to the next game.

wild game of moos meows and more: this is another memory game. first of all, each of us choose an animal. i choose snake. and then we got to think of the sounds of the animals we choose. for me, i make the "S" hissing sound. and all of us had a turn to make the sound of our animals after which the animals are hidden in the house. all of us are distributed a pile of cards and all of us had to open one card each time and call out the animal of the owner whose card is the same character as us. the cards are such a way that it is also animal. so there will be a tendency that we call out the animal of the card instead of the animal of the original animal the owner has. it is something like old maid, just that we have to call out the opposition's animal which is hidden behind the house.

pit: the last game we played as it is something pretty short. like heart attack we are supposed to open trade cards. and the first person to complete a set will shout pit and the rest of us will have to quickly put our hands together on the middle of the table, waiting for the first person to complete the cards to hit using a small little hammer, which actually hurts. alot.

all of us, i supposed had enjoyed playing at the settler's cafe. i really did enjoyed myself very much. and i guess all of us played pretty wildly. haha. hopefully, there will be another time i will go there again. looking forward to playing the interesing boardgames soon. shall we go again next week? lol

p/s: i miss playing mahjong. when can i play again??

p/p/s: will add photos soon after kailin send to us. =)