EYP Armenia Gathering at AEON

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Dear EYP Armenia Alumni and Members,

It is our pleasure to let you know that we are organizing one of the biggest EYP Gatherings of

this year in cooperation with our partner Aeon Anti Café. This is a closed event only for EYP

Armenia members and Alumni which intends to gather around 75 people, so the places are very

much limited.

The Gathering will comprise movie screening and playing various board games (can be found

below) in the 9 pre-selected group. The Board games available are the following:

Carcassonne (strategy, 5 people)

Dixit (strategy/story telling, 12 people)

Ticket to ride (strategy, 5 people)

Alias (guessing words, 14 people)

Cluedo (detective investigation/murder mystery, 6 people)

Catan (strategy, 8 people)

Jungle Speed (cards/speed, 10 people)

Monopoly (strategy/business development, 8 people)

Mafia (cards/strategy, 12 people)

More details on the Board games can be found throughout the pages 2-9. Go through the games

and make your choice on the groups.

The Gathering will take place Aeon Anti Café ( 3A Teryan Street, http://on.fb.me/1vJi8Qj) on

October 25th (Saturday) and start at 20:00. The unlimited amount of coffee, tea, cappuccino,

snacks, cookies, biscuits will be provided throughout the gathering. We know that some of you

play guitar, saxophone, violin and other musical instruments, so we would be glad if you are able

to bring those and make the evening even more unforgettable. There is also piano available at

Aeon.

REGISTER NOW BY OCTOBER 23, 12:00 here: http://bit.ly/1rN609i

Participation Fee for the event is 1500 AMD.

Sincerely, Hovsep and Tatev.

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1. CARCASSONE Type: Strategy

Number of players: max. 5

Short Description: The game board is a medieval

landscape built by the players as the game progresses. The

game starts with a single terrain tile face up and 71 others

shuffled face down for the players to draw from. On each

turn a player draws a new terrain tile and places it adjacent

to tiles that are already face up. The new tile must be placed

in a way that extends features on the tiles it abuts: roads

must connect to roads, fields to fields, and cities to cities.

After placing each new tile, the placing player may opt to

station a piece (called a "follower") on a feature of that newly

placed tile. The placing player may not use a follower to

claim any features of the tile that extend or connect features

already claimed by another player. However, it is possible

for terrain features claimed by opposing players to become

"shared" by the subsequent placement of tiles connecting

them. For example, two field tiles which each have a follower

can become connected into a single field by another terrain

tile.

The game ends when the last tile has been placed. At that

time, all features (including fields) score points for the

players with the most followers on them. The player with the

most points wins the game.

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2. DIXIT Type: Strategy/Story Telling

Number of players: max. 12

Short Description: Each player starts the game with six

random cards. Players then take turns being the storyteller.

The player whose turn it is to be storyteller looks at the six

images in his or her hand. From one of these, he or she

makes up a sentence or phrase that might describe it and

says it out loud.

Each other player then selects from among their own six

cards the one that best matches the sentence given by the

storyteller. Then, each player gives their selected card to the

storyteller, without showing it to the others. The storyteller

shuffles his or her chosen card with the cards received from

the other players, and all cards are then dealt face up. The

player then secretly guess which picture was the storyteller's,

using numbered voting chips.

If nobody or everybody finds the correct picture, the

storyteller scores 0, and each of the other players scores 2.

Otherwise the storyteller and all players who found the

correct answer score 3. Players other than the storyteller

score 1 point for each vote their own pictures receive.

A large part of the skill of the game comes from being able,

when acting as the storyteller, to offer a title which is neither

too obscure nor too obvious.

The game ends when the card deck is empty.

3. TICKET TO RIDE Type: Strategy

Number of players: max. 5

Short Description: At the beginning of the main game,

players are dealt four train car cards as their playing hand.

They are also dealt three "destination ticket" cards, each of

which shows a pair of cities on the map. These become

goals, representing two end-points which players are

secretly attempting to connect. The player must keep at least

two of these destination cards and discard unwanted tickets

to the bottom of the stack, if any. Once kept, a destination

ticket may not be discarded for the rest of game. Each player

also selects a group of 45 colored train pieces with a

matching scoring marker.

On his or her turn, a player can claim any route anywhere on

the board that has not already been claimed, regardless of

whether the route helps to complete his or her destination

tickets. The routes score points by themselves, as mentioned

above, but routes not connected to a player's destination do

not help him or her in reaching the destination or

completing his or her destination ticket.

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4. ALLIAS Type: Guessing Words

Number of players: max. 14

Short Description: The game is played in teams of

varying size, and fits well as a party game for larger

crowds. The game is very competitive.

The game contains 8 numbered groups. The game is

divided into turns of about one minute of length. The

teams play in turns, and on each team's turn, one of the

team members has to explain words on word cards to the

other team members. The other team members take

guesses at the word, and words that have been correctly

guessed earn the team one point per word. Explanation

mistakes (meaning the explainer uses the word to be

explained, part of it, or a derivative of it), and words

passed over without being guessed take points away. The

players move on the board as many places as they have

earned points on their turn. If, for example, the team

lands on the number 7, the word to be explained from the

cards is word number 7. The first team to reach the goal

wins. The game is recommended for players over 7 years.

5. CLUEDO Type: Detective investigation/ murder mystery

Number of players: max. 6

Short Description: At the beginning of play, three cards

— one suspect, one weapon, and one room card — are

chosen at random and put into a special envelope, so that

no one can see them. These cards represent the facts of the

case. The remainder of the cards are distributed among the

players.

Players are instructed to assume the token/suspect nearest

them. In older versions, play begins with Miss Scarlett and

proceeds clockwise. In modern versions, all players roll the

dice and the highest total starts the game and then proceeds

clockwise. Players roll the dice (some versions contain one

and others two) and move along the board's corridor

spaces, or into the rooms accordingly.

The aim is to deduce the details of the murder; that is, the

cards in the envelope. There are six characters, six murder

weapons and nine rooms, leaving the players with 324

possibilities. While determining the details of the murder,

players announce suggestions to the other players.

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6. CATAN Type: Strategy

Number of players: max. 8

Short Description: The players in the game

represent settlers establishing colonies on the island of

Catan. Players build settlements, cities, and roads to

connect them as they settle the island. The game board

representing the island is composed of hexagonal tiles

(hexes) of different land types which are laid out

randomly at the beginning of each game;[4] new

editions of the game also depict a fixed layout in their

manual, which has been proven to be fairly even-

handed by computer simulations, and recommend this

to be used by beginners.

Players can trade resource cards among each other;

players may also trade off-island (in effect, with the

non-player bank) at a ratio of four of one resource for

one of any other. By building settlements in certain

spots on the edge of the board (ports), players may

trade with the bank at three-to-one (3 of any single

resource type) or two-to-one (two of a specific

resource) ratios, determined by the port's location.

7. JUNGLE SPEED Type: Cards/speed

Number of players: max. 10

Short Description: Cards are shuffled and dealt to

each player face down, ensuring that all players have an

equal number of cards in their stacks. A wooden

cylinder called a Totem is placed in the center of the

table, equidistant from all players. Any remaining cards

that cannot be distributed equitably are placed under

the totem in an area known as the Pot. Players take

turns playing the top card from their stacks in a

clockwise rotation. Each player does this by flipping

their card over in the direction of their opponents, so

that their opponents get the first glance at their card to

avoid unfair advantage. The card is then quickly placed

in front of the player's pile. Thus players form discard

piles in front of their piles of cards as the game

progresses. When a player plays a card that matches the

symbol of another player's top card, the two players

must duel to grab the totem in the center as quickly as

possible. The loser of the duel takes both players' played

cards (their discard pile plus the card currently in play),

as well as any cards in the pot, and places them at the

bottom of his deck. The loser of the round plays the next

card.

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8. MONOPOLY Type: Strategy/ Business Development

Number of players: max. 8

Short Description: Players take turns in order, with the

initial player determined by chance before the game. A

typical turn begins with the rolling of the dice and

advancing their piece clockwise around the board the

corresponding number of squares. If a player rolls doubles,

they roll again after completing their turn. If a player rolls

three consecutive sets of doubles on one turn, the player

has been "caught speeding," and the player is immediately

sent to jail instead of moving the amount shown on the dice

for the third roll, ending the player's turn.

A player who lands or passes the Go space collects $200

(unless they automatically go to jail). Players who land on

either Income Tax or Luxury Tax pay the indicated amount

to the bank.

9. MAFIA. Number of players: max. 12