First Singapore Open Gaming

Place: Resident's Committee Room No.139. Queen's Road, Block 3.
Time: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Date: 18th March 2006, Saturday

Firstly a big thank you to Ken Lee who organised the first session of the Singapore Open Gaming, an event that is his brainchild and is from the community.

Secondly, this is a great event without affiliation to any commercial concerns for once, hence no politics, obligations or onerous payments, for instance, to Settlers' Cafe, Mind Cafe, Pitstop, Paradigm Infinitium, Comics Mart or other commercial entities. And you can play any game you like!

The Saturday session was a fun and eventful one. Sixteen or more people turned up. The games played included:

Amun-Re
Colossal
Arena
Fury of Dracula
Industrial Waste
Industria
Lord of the Rings
Modern Art
Power Grid
Ole!
Lord of the Rings
6Nimmt! (Take 6)

I played 'Lord of the Rings' with four others but it was an extremely short game. I drew one bad tile after another. We didn't make it past Bree as the Fellowship was wiped out with the Ringbearer and another hobbit embracing Sauron... I think the other players were saying that this is lowest scoring game they have ever played. We scored 10 points.


Afterwards, Keng Ho introduced 'Ole!', a neat swift playing card game which could accommodate seven players and Ivan managed a win. I like this game from Abacus Spiele.

I will definitely turn up for the next session that Ken organises. I will highly recommend this event (if it can remain free of any commercial concerns). As for the fees, we share it for the rental of this room.

My BGG Profile if anyone is interested.