Ok, bad play on words... anyhow, last night my wife and I got together with my parents for a game of Phase-10. We have been starting to get together and play a game once a week, and it has been a lot of fun. No cool wargames or fantasy type games like I'm into, we are talking more along the lines of Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit type stuff.
At first, nobody was interested in a 'card game', but I really wasn't up for Scrabble, so somehow managed to talk everyone into playing. The players were
D-Rock (me)
Wifey-Rock
Mom-Rock
Dad-Rock
My wife and I had both played several times together and with others, so we were quite fimilar with the game, however, we did decide it would be best to do a read through on the rules before starting, just so nothing was left out or forgotten, and everyone would have a fair chance from the first round.
The game started off pretty well, and everyone quickly picked it up, my wife blew through the first few phases like nothing, quickly taking the lead, before long Mom-Rock and Dad-Rock started to catch wind of the fact she was completely leaving us in the dust, and for several rounds every "Skip" card was assigned to her to give the rest of us room for advancement.
As we caught up and narrowed her lead down, we all hit the last few phases with amazingly close scores. As we neared the end of the game I managed to be on the last phase, while Wifey and Dad-Rock were on Phase-9 and Mom-Rock somehow fell behind and was stuck on Phase-7.
I knew people were going to target me with skips and do whatever they could to hold me back from completing my last phase. The hand I was dealt was actually really good, but I had to put on my best poker face and pretend it was a bad one, I let out a huff when I looked at my cards, and quickly threw everyone off my trail by drawing a couple of cards from the start that I didn't need.
My plan worked, because Wifey (who was on my right) thought I was after the cards I really wasn't after, and as a result she discarded the card I needed to get my phase, and luckly I was also able to go out of the game in the same move, not only ending the game, but leaving the other players with full hands of cards.
As the game ended, I realized I not only won by getting to Phase-10 first, but I also had the lowest score as well.
Final scores:
D-Rock: 435 points
Mom-Rock: 465 points
Dad-Rock: 470 points
Wifey: 485 points
It was actually quite funny that my wife came in last place, having blown through the first few phases so quickly. Looking back at the scores, for the first five rounds she only had a total of 15 points, where as we were all between 170 and 220. So it was quite the turn of events the second half of the game.
Overall everyone enjoyed it and was happy to have played, even though the initial reaction was to not play it because it was "just a card game", I know this game will see some table time again in the near future, and it is nice to play something with my parents. I really have no memories of playing games with them as a child, so it is great to have that experience now (as I rapidly approach being 40 years old myself).
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