Thursday, January 17, 2008

HIDEOUT CAFE

Bet u never heard of this place? Hehe.. Neither have i, until Yuwen told me about it.
It's a board game cafe in Bedok.... Very near my sec sch... Too bad i've already graduated, if not it'll be fun to head there after school to play board games with friends^^
The location's quite ulu (does that explains the name? Lol), but since i'd once walked by that area almost everyday for 4 years, i can find the place easily^^

Both of us went on Monday afternoon, the cafe's empty.. Really, we were the only customers that afternoon. So the 2 friendly cafe employees joined us in the games, since 2 person cant have much fun in playing board games.

Second one on the left is Cindy, while i cant remember the name of the leftmost girl =x



They introduced the games to us (all look alien to me) many of which was bought online from all over the world~ We played 4 games in the 4hrs there.

Munchkin: a card game which was really cute, fighting monsters and leveling up as you try to beat the monsters. Everyone starts the game as a human & as they draw Treasure cards when they beat a monster, they may get new identities like Elf, Dwarf, Halfling, Wizard. Treasure cards comprises of various weapons, like Friendly Potion (use it to 'befriend' a monster if u cant beat it) and some funny headgear (which only certain people/race like Elves can use it)

The monsters are of different levels, but some of them like lawyer, insurance agent are also included in the lineup of monsters. LOL. Together with Hippogriff (Harry Potter readers should know what is it) and loads of funny monsters (this is what was printed on 1 monster card 'it does not attack female players or male players who had undergone sex-change surgery)

Citadel: a card game that enables players to build districts (game ends when one player builds 8 diff districts) and we get to choose different roles to play which changes with each turn. Assassin, thief, bishop, king, merchant, architect, warlord, magician, these 8 cards. Each character has got different powers and we try to choose the character that best fit or will help in earning more golds to build districts. For eg, the magician can exchange district cards with another character, the thief can steal another character's gold, provided the chosen characters are in play (we dunno who holds what character card in the first place)

I won the Citadel game & the 1st game for Munchkin!~ ^^

Next was a board game Lifeboat: each player has several crew members & a captain in the specific colour chosen, then we put them in 4 different lifeboats of diff colours (4 players) in a random manner. During each turn we use different colour cards to vote for the boat to receive a leak (then vote again to throw out a member of that colour, if the no. of leaks in a boat exceeds that the no. of crew members, the boat will sink), which boat to move forward and players can decide whether to change boats (but there isnt enough places to change anyway)
To win, the player must have the most points accumulated from the crew members & captain who manage to reach the 3 islands (with diff points system)
I somehow won the game too by 1 point i think..

This is the beautiful outcome of our last game of the day. It's called Ticket to Ride. Just in case it isnt obvious enough, we have a map of the United States here, with different cities highlighted. To start, each player will take 3 route cards and decide which train route to take and proceed on to draw coloured train cards which we'll need in other to build the train route. If the route that we choose have X no. of pink tracks, then one has to collect X no. of pink cards to build that section of the track. Haiz... No luck in drawing those cards, 1 red train card deluded me, *sobs* so i cant finish to building the last section of the track. Ended up with one whole stack of colourful cards in my hands.. But not enough red cards and wild cards (can represent any colour) =x

Btw, the blue tracks in the pic were mine, yellow tracks were yuwen's, black tracks were that girl-whom-i -cant-rmb-her-name's, Cindy didnt join in the game cos she went off to fetch her kid.

Woots... Spent so much time talking about how to play each game.


How can i leave the cafe without first taking pics? LOL

Shun bian take pics of others playing. More people started coming in at night, according to the employees. I hope so loh.. hehe if not i wonder how can the cafe survive. They should do more publicity and target sec sch students as there are several schs in the vicinity. Perhaps find one shuai4-ge employee to distribute flyers outside the nearby girls schs or sth.. Hehe.. =p

It's a really fun experience, shall come back again with more friends^^
I find the single student package price of $7 for 4h with free flow of drinks quite affordable~
What's more?
It's in the east, so it takes lesser time for me to get home..
lalala~

yunn. at 9:11 PM