• Danish is not my first language.
Yes it is!

Though, my best excuse is still:
• I don’t play to win, just to have fun.

In fact, I have used it to such a degree to where I believe it is true.

(Used just last night in a game of Phoenica)

That’s the marker that keeps track of income?? I thought it was the VP marker!

Dave should have hit the leader when I clearly wasn’t winning at the time.

Well, that was a learning game.

They really need to give some handicap to the player who goes last.

I could have played more strategically, but there was already too much Analysis Paralysis going on.

I was so used to playing it with the wrong rules at the Gathering, that I didn’t adjust my strategy.

Wow, that game is so unintuitive.

You were lucky that you were sitting to the left of Melissa.

"The game is obviously broken.  I have the perfect rules fix...”

The kids ganged up on me!

LOL! I like them all.

Except Jonathan’s.

Along the lines of ‘The dice hate me!’

You know how luck and I don’t get along.

At one point I used, “You got all the dice,” regularly.  Finally a gaming buddy flat out told me that he really felt that occasionally his playing might have actually affected the outcome and maybe it wasn’t all dice.  I took that advice to heart and try to never blame luck (or at least not entirely) for my losses.

Scott, we actually track dice rolls when we play Settlers. The ostensible reason was to give our daughter some basic understanding of probability and expected rolls, but the other thing that happened was that it gave some clarity to “wow the dice really sucked that game”. Sometimes that’s valid, but I guess the key to many games is to maximise your strategy REGARDLESS of the dice rolls rather than in anticipation of them.