Game Review – Yunnan

Yunnan
Number of Players	2 - 5
Play Time	90 Minutes
Ages	12 Years and up

This time I wanted to take a look at Yunnan, an Argentum Verlag game.

In Yunnan the players are tea traders in the city of Pu’er in ancient China.  As the person in charge of the trading company you are trying to get your tea to the farthest markets in order to make the most profit so you can build your wealth and prestige.  You have to watch out for the inspector in the provinces because they will send an unlucky trader back to the home province where they will earn less for their tea.

Scorecard Review – January 2014

The start of a new year always brings me hope that I will improve how well I do playing games.  Unfortunately this year like many years that hope is dashed by the end of January as my expectations for doing better at playing board games does not intersect with reality.

January

Now that the holiday season is over, I was able to get back into the groove of attending the events I regularly go to.

In December I was able to play 20 games at 8 events for an average of 2.5 games per event.  I would prefer to be at 3 games per event but I have been playing longer games at week night events so that has kept my average down.

I won 4 games in January compared to the 3 that I won in December.  I came in second four times, third seven times, and fourth five times.  My average standing from January was 2.68 compared to the 2.25 I had in December.

I played four games more than once in January:  Organic Soup, Russian Railroads, Wildcatters, and Yunnan.

I played four games for the first time in January:  Coal Baron, Coney Island, Euphoria, and Yunnan.

My stats for January are:

Game	No. of Plays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Avg.
Australian Rails	1	-	-	1	-	-	-			3.00
Boxcars	1	-	-	1	-	-	-			3.00
British Rails	1	1	-	-	-	-	-			1.00
Coal Baron	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	4.00
Coney Island	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-		3.00
Euphoria	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	4.00
India Rails	1	-	-	1	-	-	-			3.00
Iron Dragon	1	-	-	1	-	-	-			3.00
Organic Soup	2	1.5	0.5	-	-	-	-	-		1.25
Russian Railroads	2	-	1	1	-		-	-	-	2.50
Trans America	1	-	1	-	-	-	-			2.00
Tsuro	1	-	-	-	1	-	-			4.00
Wildcatters	3	1	1	-	1					2.33
Yunnan	3	-	1	1	1	-				3.00
Totals	20	3.5	4.5	7	5	-	-	-	-	2.68

Lifetime

Since I started tracking my game plays in April 2013 I have played 168 games at 68 events for an average of 2.47 games per event.

I have won 34 games and have lifetime standing of 2.51.

The five games I have played the most are as follows:

Game	No. of Plays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Avg.
Iron Dragon	10	3	3	3	1	-	-			2.20
India Rails	8	-	4	4	-	-	-			2.50
Martian Rails	8	1	4	3	-	-	-			2.25
Empire Builder	6	-	1	4	-	1	-			3.17
Russian Railroads	6	-	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	2.50

It was not a great start to the year but not the worst.  I will start up year to date tracking again next month.