Anyway, to the game: The Rivers of Catan. The rules are simple. You get one gold for each settlement and city you build on a river, and you can build bridges (two brick and a lumber) across a river or at its delta. A bridge acts like a road, but you get three gold.
So what is gold for? Up to twice during your turn, you can buy a resource for two gold. However, the player(s) with the least gold lose two victory points, while the player with the most gets an extra victory point. As usual, ten VPs wins.
Now, to the game I played. Here was an initial image of the board:
I didn't get a 6 until near the end of the game. Anyway, though I got a victory point card, the main competition was between my sister (who was the richest) and my mother (who was tied with me for the least gold, though we had an impressive sum.) The biggest competition was for the longest road. An image of Ashley's, for instance:
You won't believe this, but the turn she won, even being a poor settler, my mother needed only two victory points more to win, and got them. She managed to get the longest road by building six roads!
The final image of the board:
In the time I haven't been blogging, I've played every T&B scenario, and plan to play Traders and Barbarians combined with Seafarers soon!
