Too dumb to game 04-Jul-2007   Paul I've never been accused of being an idiot by a designer before. Though I suspect that would rapidly change if they saw the way I murder some of their games. But now that's all changed. A few years ago, Andy was given a game for Christmas. It's not really important which so I'll keep the name anonymous, even if it does spoil my punchline a little. So we made a space among the turkey and trimmings, cracked it open and gave it a go. Being Christmas, we'd had a beer or two. Perhaps more. So it's likely that we got even more rules wrong than we usually do. But the basic gist was a roll and move game. We weren't enthralled by it. This was back in the days before the birth of The Piddinghoe Gamers website, and we were still putting session reports on Boardgame Geek. So of course I popped a session report up for this game. We'd added a whole bunch of reports between us. Some positive, some negative, and most of them likely riddled with rule errors. Either Knizia wasn't reading them, or he didn't really mind. But out of the blue I got an email from the chap who designed this particular game. He wasn't very happy with the session report. Seems we'd played the game wrong and missed all of the subtleties of his strategy masterpiece. And to be fair I doubt I'd be happy if some fool got the rules to my game completely wrong. And then trumpeted to the world how bad the accidental variant was. So we exchanged a few mails and I posted a summary of his corrections. I noticed this evening that he's now posted up a more extensive summary, which is what I should probably have done. Fair enough. And amongst them he's included his own little report on the gamer - "Doesn't sound like the sharpest stategy brain in action to me!" Cool! I've never had a report on me before. Maybe I should get a badge. Or better still, I could get a t-shirt printed up with "Too stupid to play *** ******" on the front. And "But not stupid enough to play it twice" on the back :-)      Comment by Iain Cheyne   05-Jul-2007 And via the magic of Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Doesn't+sound+like+the+sharpest+stategy+brain+in+action+to+me!%22+boardgamegeek :-P        Comment by Andy   05-Jul-2007 Tis bizarre indeed that the author is still defending himself 5 years after the session report. Anyway - would someone like my copy, free!!! just pay postage .... ?        Comment by Andy   06-Jul-2007 p.s. I told you that you should have had it out with him at Essen last year despite walking past the games stand several times. Sharpened meeples at dawn I say!