Falsche Fuffziger!
Dec. 22nd, 2008 03:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyToday Mickey, I, and Sean-who-is-not-from-Vassar played Falsche Fuffziger.
Yes, really.
...hm, I guess most of you reading this now aren't familiar with this old running joke, are you? So Falsche Fuffziger is this game I bought a while back after playing it once at Gil's - the name is in German because the game is in German, because it was never published in English. The game is about counterfeiting - you're counterfeiters all trying to make the most money. Apparently the name literally means "Funny Fifties", but I'm told in German that phrase is also an idiom for "a bad influence". (Anyone who actually knows German, feel free to correct me. And perhaps take a look at the rules and clear up some things for us.)
So I bought this game, but nobody ever wanted to play it, and it became a running joke. (Well, one time other people suggested it, but that time *I* didn't want to play it.) But I never got rid of it. Well I brought it home (beginning to clear out my room, as described in this entry), and today, well, we actually played it.
And I have to say, with only 3 players, it's kind of eh. We need more! It must come out again! (I suspected it might not work well with 3, because it's an auction game, but BGG said it worked OK so we went ahead anyway.)
But now that old joke is at last ended.
(Also, Mickey lost so badly that he posted to Twitter that he'd never gotten owned so bad in a boardgame before. "Um, have you ever played Go?" Aside from that, he said. He was lacking in real money for much of the game and so had trouble buying more presses[0]. It was Sean who actually won, by a lot.)
-Harry
[0]Explanation: You're counterfeiters, so the game deals with both real money and fake money. You need real money to buy your counterfeiting presses, because the people who make them know how to tell the difference!
Yes, really.
...hm, I guess most of you reading this now aren't familiar with this old running joke, are you? So Falsche Fuffziger is this game I bought a while back after playing it once at Gil's - the name is in German because the game is in German, because it was never published in English. The game is about counterfeiting - you're counterfeiters all trying to make the most money. Apparently the name literally means "Funny Fifties", but I'm told in German that phrase is also an idiom for "a bad influence". (Anyone who actually knows German, feel free to correct me. And perhaps take a look at the rules and clear up some things for us.)
So I bought this game, but nobody ever wanted to play it, and it became a running joke. (Well, one time other people suggested it, but that time *I* didn't want to play it.) But I never got rid of it. Well I brought it home (beginning to clear out my room, as described in this entry), and today, well, we actually played it.
And I have to say, with only 3 players, it's kind of eh. We need more! It must come out again! (I suspected it might not work well with 3, because it's an auction game, but BGG said it worked OK so we went ahead anyway.)
But now that old joke is at last ended.
(Also, Mickey lost so badly that he posted to Twitter that he'd never gotten owned so bad in a boardgame before. "Um, have you ever played Go?" Aside from that, he said. He was lacking in real money for much of the game and so had trouble buying more presses[0]. It was Sean who actually won, by a lot.)
-Harry
[0]Explanation: You're counterfeiters, so the game deals with both real money and fake money. You need real money to buy your counterfeiting presses, because the people who make them know how to tell the difference!
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Date: 2008-12-22 07:54 pm (UTC)