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Neighbors | Zack Shively.Austintown library hosted a Strategy Board Game event where people could play games like "Sushi Go Party!" on Aug. 14.
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Neighbors | Zack Shively.The Austintown library offered chips and drinks to the participants of their Strategy Board Games event on Aug. 12.
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Neighbors | Zack Shively.Pictured is a sample card from the game "We Didn't Playtest This At All" at the Austintown library during the Strategy Board Games event on Aug. 12.
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Neighbors | Zack Shively.Corey stared at his card intently, as his card instructed him to do, during a game of "We Didn't Playtest This At All" at the Strategy Board Game event at the Austintown library on Aug. 12.
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Neighbors | Zack Shively.The group set up the cards for the game "Codenames" during the Strategy Games event in the Austintown library on Aug. 12.
By ZACK SHIVELY
The Austintown library had an event for teenagers and adults to play strategy board games in their meeting room on Aug. 12.
Librarian Andrea Zupcsan led the event designed for members of the community to come together and play board games. They play strategy games like “Ticket to Ride,” “Settlers of Catan” and “Carcassonne.” The library provides some board games, and participants are also welcome to bring their own games.
The group first chose to play a small game of “Sushi Go Party.” The game offers a number of different playing cards, each named after a sushi food or sushi related object, like chopsticks or wasabi. The players choose the types of cards they want to play with and places a score card in on the board, resembling a menu. Each score card will show how to get points with a type of food. For example, a player with one or two sashimi cards nets zero points, but a player with three gets ten points.
A player shuffles and deals the cards. Each player will place a card face up and pass the rest of the cards to the person to the left. The players continue this until they have no more cards. At the end, the players count the score of their face up cards.
The next game they played was “We Didn’t Playtest This At All,“ a game where winning is the only objective. While that sounds easy, the first two rounds of the game ended with everyone losing. To play, the players get two cards. The players must then pick up a third card on their turn. The cards give strange instruction, such as forcing players to meow every time they play a card. Another card allows that player to instantly win the game. The game typically lasts from 30 seconds to five minutes.
The group finished the day with “Codenames.“ In this game, two teams compete to find out their own team’s secret code names. Someone sets up 25 cards in a five-by-five square. Two players act as clue-givers and get to see which names correspond to which teams. The clue-giver can only say one word and the word must relate to a cards meaning. For example, if there is a card that says “shoe,” the clue-giver can say “foot“ to try to get the team to guess the card with “shoe” on it. The game goes until one team has correctly identified each of their code names.
The event occurs once a month in the main meeting room in the back of the Austintown library, starting around 3 p.m. and ending between 4 and 5 p.m. They serve snacks and drinks during the session.
The next Strategy Board Game at the Library will be on Sept. 9.