Die Tage habe ich My City in der Variante Roll & Write gespielt. Das normale Spiel mit den Gebäuden aus Pappe hatten wir schon vor einigen Jahren durchgespielt. Das hier ist die neue Variante, die viel kompakter ist. Die Würfel sind hier ziemlich interessant, weil man die Zwei Würfel bei dem grauen Punkt zusammenstellen muss. Das ergibt die Form, die man zeichnen muss. Der weiße Würfel gibt die »Farbe« des Hauses an, also ausgefüllt, schraffiert oder mit Kreuzen.

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In a recent post I looked at the game “Railroad Ink” and how applying a backtracking algorithm to it. Then I have written another post about refactoring that into a tree search library and also have applied a random walk algorithm to Railroad Ink. Then in yet another post I have implemented Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) and applied it to Tic-Tac-Toe. This algorithm is now also part of the tree search library and can be applied to Railroad Ink. That is what I am going to do in this post.

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One of my favorite board games is “Railroad Ink”. One has to build a rail and road network on a square grid using the building blocks shown on dice. During the game, my player mat looks like this:

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Yesterday I've played Nidavellir, a game where one drafts a dwarf army to fight a dragon and seize the treasure it guards. It is just about the drafting, no actual fighting. The player with the best dwarf amy wins, and that is scored by points. Dwarfs are recruited in taverns, and one the players have to bid on the three taverns, and the players can then choose the dwarfs in order of highest bids.

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Die Tage habe ich das Spiel On Tour gespielt. Man soll eine Band-Tournee durch die USA planen. Dabei hat man als Spielbrett diese Landkarte. In die einzelnen Staaten trägt man dann gewürfelte Zahlen ein. Man würfelt mit zwei W10 und setzt die beiden Ziffern in beiden Kombinationen zusammen. Würfelt man 1 und 5, so muss man die 15 und 51 eintragen. Es ist noch ein wenig eingeschränkt, wohin man diese eintragen darf.

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Tridom ist ein klassisches Spiel, bei dem man letztlich Domino mit Dreiecken spielt. Man hat eine gewisse Anzahl Steine auf der Hand, die man anlegen muss. Der erste Spieler, der keine Steine mehr auf der Hand hat, beendet das Spiel. Man bekommt beim Legen des Steines die Summe der Ziffern als Punkte gutgeschrieben; der Spieler mit den meisten Punkten gewinnt.

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Scythe is a board game from the engine builder genre. Is a rather complicated game as there are different types of entities and actions around. It is about collecting resources, deploying the hero, workers, mechs and buildings, moving them around, fighting with others, accomplishing achievements. In the end one obtains a score based on the number of achievements, controlled hexes and resources as well as left-over money and some bonus points.

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In the board game Ex Libris one draws cards with book shelves and has to arrange them in alphabetic order. The catch is that one can only rarely rearrange the cards that one has put down onto the table. Also one gets extra points for the largest rectangular section. There can at most be three rows of shelves. Therefore one should try to have a third of the alphabet in each row. But where should one separate?

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On occasion I play some enthusiast board games. Scythe is one of my favorite ones, as it does not contain much randomness (except for the encounters) and one can play somewhat independently of the other players. There are various strategies to gain points in the game. I once tracked my progress along the game, and got an interesting chart of it:

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There is a vast array of computer games available. There are single player games without a campaign (Tetris, Mine Sweeper) that you can just play without preparation. Then there are games with a story (The Witcher, Mass Effect, Bioshock). These solitary games are not the scope of the articles. Rather I am concerned with multiplayer games. And there are the kind of cooperative games (Saint's Row, Borderlands, Diablo) and the competitive games (MechWarrior Online, World of Warships).

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In 2011 I was on vacation with friends, we played a lot of Risk. Somehow we ended up having fights of hundreds of armies against each other. Since with every dice rolling you can only eliminate up to three armies, you need a lot of rounds until a battle is settled. While my friends were occupied in a battle of 200 against 150, I used my freshly acquired Python skills to write a program to do the dice rolling, risk-auto-dice.

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