Game Review: Spy Alley

Do you like deduction games? If the answer is yes, you definitely love this game Spy Alley. It is quite a hard game to get and we only manage to get this set during a visit to Australia so do check it out!


Spy Alley...how good a spy are you?

Overview
Spy Alley is an exciting game based on deduction and lots of bluffing. In this game, everyone represent a spy from one of the 6 countries. The objective is pretty simple. As a spy, you need to collect several items such as password, disguise, etc and deliver it to your country embassy.


Your secret identity

The tricky part of this game is to keep your identity a secret and expose other players' identity. If your identity is exposed or you made the wrong accusation, then you will be eliminated from the game!


Going around the board to get the required items

So the idea is to go around the board to get the items and head for your country embassy. However if you do it too obviously, your identity may be exposed and that would get you eliminated.


Getting different items to confuse your opponent. Is he an Italian


The dangerous spy alley

You can enter the spy alley and get a chance to guess other players who are in the alley for free. But take care not to end up as a victim yourself!

As this game is based on elimination, get eliminated too early in the game and you will just have to suck thumb and watch the rest continue with the game.


A good read for those who are eliminated from the game

Conclusion

Spy Alley is a great game for up to 6 players. It is easy to learn and you get a lot of fun trying to figure out each other identity and keeping your identity from been exposed.

The board game components are also nicely designed. I particularly love the fact that the creator had used plastic cards for player's identity. It is definitely more durable and has less obvious marks that might give away your identity.

Although the gameplay isn't as meaty as most Euro games, it is still a great challenge when played with witty and cunning players. The only downside is that if you get eliminated too early in the game, it might turn out to be too boring for you. Also try not to play this game with females. Either they tends to have an amazing dose of sixth sense or i simply sucks at lying.

Spy Alley is definitely a game worth playing. So do check it out on your next visit to Pitstop Cafe.

New Games
Apart from Spy Alley, we are also very lucky to receive 2 games from the creator of Spy Alley, Bill Stephenson. Thanks Bill!

So if you like Spy Alley, do give these 2 games a try too!


From the creators of Spy Ally, Simply Suspects and Bluff & Peg

Pitstop Cafe, be part of the fun!

Astro

An Intriguing Review

Some board games can be really cruel. In the game of Intrigue, you will need a good dose of backstabbing and betrayal in order to stand any chance of winning the game.


Like the name of the game suggests, winning is through crafty plotting or underhand methods.

Despite the betrayal and backstabbing elements of the game, Intrigue is basically a negotiation game. For those who enjoys game like I'm the Boss or Lifeboat will likely to enjoy this game as well.

Overview

Every player owns a court with various positions that offers lucrative salary.


Different positions get paid differently. Will you get paid $1000 or $10000?

At the same time each player has various scholars. The objective of the game is to get your scholars to work in other players' court (hopefully in a lucrative position) and earn tons of money as officials.


Can you get your 8 scholars to work in a well paid position?

The problem is that there are only limited high paying positions in the game and everyone is eying for them. Hence to get into a high paying job, you will need to bribe other players to secure a good position for your scholars. However other players are cunning. There are no guarantees that they are going to keep their promise. You might have bribe $10,000 for a $10,000 position and ended with a low $1000 position!


While you might have secured a high paying position, you never know when you will be betrayed and get kick out of the position.

Throughout the game, there will be intense negotiations and betrayals that keeps everyone on their edge.

Conclusion

Overall Intrigue is a very intense and exciting negotiation game. Unlike the game I'm the Boss which can be a quite a friendly game depending on your opponents, Intrigue is designed to cause conflicts among the players. It is always interesting to see how players who like to avoid conflicts having to make some tough betrayal decisions.

So if you are like negotiation games like I'm the Boss, do give Intrigue a try!

Pitstop Cafe, be part of the fun!

astro

Happy New Year

The Pitstop Team would like to wish all Pitstoppers a Happy New Year and may everyone stay happy, healthy and prosperous!

It has been a wonderful 2007 and we greatly appreciate all the support that you have given us. We look forward to your continuous support and we strive to improve ourselves to make sure that each stay at Pitstop Cafe remains a memorable experience.

The new year will bring new and exciting changes to Pitstop Cafe. You can look forward to more great games and more exciting stuff...

So stay tuned and happy holidays!

Pitstop Cafe, hello 2008..

New Year Celebration!

Do come down to Pitstop cafe for your New Year Eve celebrations!

Make your reservations early to avoid disappointment!!!

Pitstop cafe, Happy New Year!

Longer and More Pleasurable

By Popular demand, Pitstop cafe is changing our operating hours to maximise your gratifications.

More information

New Operating Hours

Mon-Thurs 2pm-11pm

Fri-Sat 12pm-3am

Sun 12pm-11pm

Eve. of P.H 12pm-3am

P.H 12pm-11pm

On top of that, we're gonna throw in some goodie for all of you to maximize your playing hours!

Festive Season Promotion

Mon-Thursday 2pm-5pm

Free Flow Gaming

Free Flow Drinks

10% Discount for a-la-carte orders

@ only $5 per pax!

Revised operating hours will take effect from 7th Dec (Fri)

Season Greetings

The Pitstop Team would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and may it be fill with tons of fun and laughter!

Pitstop Cafe, Ho ho ho...

astro

Pitstop Dinner & Dance

Red carpets. Bright lights. Applause!

Get ready for the inaugurated Pitstop cafe Dinner and Dance 2007.

Seems like all the guests were dressed to impressed...


Evelyn the prom queen

Well, maybe not all.

"Tell me to dress up!?!?Im goin' to kill him later when we get home!"

The Pitstop crews have certainly grown in numbers and also became much closer as a big family.

There were new faces...


The bushwackers and...


The bush

our familiar veterans...


The herbivore


Our naval commander (the one in red hasn't even got his head shaved before)

And the alive and still kickin'...


Have we aged?

Prsenting to you (part) of the Pitstop Team!


Miss you guys who are not there with us!

What's this?!?!


From the picture, guess the word. Clue: A sport team

Leave a comment if you got the answer!

After the dinner, we proceed to the dance segment.

Pole dancing


Dance segment 1


Dance segment 2

The celebration was transformed into a magical and lavishing experience when the entire ballroom was filled with pyrotechnics, sound and lightings.


see how different the girls looked after that?


see what I meant?!

At the end of the party, everyone was high and tipsy.

It was pure decadent and raw...


"take my stick into your mouth!"


"Im going to take you from behind"

At the end of the day, Im sure everyone was really exhausted from the night's event.

But most importantly, they have understood a concept:

You can really turn anything into fun,

you need the right company,

to see things differently

Pitstop cafe, our team turns everything into fun

tim

Happy 2nd Anniversary

Time flies and before we know it Pitstop Cafe is now 2 years old! It has been another year of great fun and laughter! The Pitstop family has also gotten bigger with more members and our friendly crew.

To mark this special occasion, we are gonna give a small token of appreciation to our top 20 loyal supporters!

There is a special gift for our top Pitstopper. Do check out your mailbox if you think you are a regular of Pitstop Cafe. For the rest, there will be a top up of 100 Pitstop Dollar to your account which you can redeem for finger food and drinks for up to 4 person!

Lucky Pitstoppers with the 100 Pitstop Dollar!

Check the back of your membership card for your member number.

1. Jerry 448
2. Smith 60
3. Peirong 494
4. Sophia 53
5. Jenny 126
6. Meijin 128
7. Shirlyn 163
8. Jinhui 237
9. Yuhui 141
10. Ryan 156
11. Jaron 231
12. Siew Leng 384
13. Alfred 58
14. Ricole 15
15. Norman 270
16. Yufen 105
17. Kok Ann 141
18. Yong Joo 124
19. Qisheng 64
20. Mystery Top Pitstopper!

Thanks for all your support and we look forward to welcoming you at Pitstop Cafe.

Pitstop Cafe, be part of the fun!

astro

Featured on Suria

Pitstop cafe is a melting pot of culture.

Not only have we been featured on National papers, magazines and TV shows...

Today, we add another milestone to our Pitstop media profile:



Featured on the Suria Channel

Once again, it was really interesting to see the 'backstage' works of the media crew.

Just a few minutes on screen, and you need two big lights, big casing, 6 crews, huge video camera, long coils of wire and not to mention, multiple retakes and rehearsal.


Lights, Camera, Action!


Rolling, rolling!

I still remembered my friend telling me, "hey! I know the Suria host! very pretty!"

Gosh, was I excited!

I came well prepared and...

Well dressed.

But once again, I was always the brunt of all jokes.


No pretty host


Only cute guys and many retakes

and I had to do a 'whatever' sign some more.


Sensational Suria Segarians!

Once again Thanks to Fadila and her crew for making Pitstop cafe look so vibrant and exciting!

Pitstop cafe will be featured on Suria on Sunday, 9 Dec, 10am-12pm.

Pitstop cafe, another milestone

tim

Something Shiok is Happening

Yeah, something really shiok is happening in 3 day time....

Stay tuned!

astro

Pitstop Spring Collection

I am proud to present the hunks and babes for Pitstop Spring Collection. After months of procrastination, the Pitstop polo tee is finally out! The design is simple (due to the lack in artistic skills) and functional. Check it out....



On the back is our logo...



and the front look like this. You should see how the machine did all the stitches for the design, it is really fascinating. As it is a dry fit polo tee, it is pretty comfortable as well. Ain't too bad right?

It is great for all occasions too...

For all the fun moments...



the serious times...



and the showoff times. Specially designed sizes to show the chest and hide the tummy...


Can't see their beer tummy right?

It looks great on girls too....


Don't you wish your girlfriend was cute like me?

I think the tee looks great with those having the bowl hairstyle...


Look so much like sisters. Wonder if they use the same bowl for their haircut...

Hope everyone likes the new look of the Pitstop Team!

Pitstop Team, friendly folks in black

astro

Joke of the day

Being an educator, I am pretty amazed by how different people process the same piece of information.

Here in Pitstop cafe, it is really amusing by some of the reactions folks respond to a game.

It was one incident that happened tonight that really made me totally cracked up...

'Walk the dog' is a game whereby players attempt to gain points by having dogs of the same breed in their own line of dogs. Before the game starts, the players are suppose to first, line up the dogs from 'head to tail'. This is how the story goes...


well, I said, "line the dogs from head to tail!"


The girls were so excited that they really started to diligently join the dogs up by ensuring the head of the dog touches the tail of the other

As most of the dogs were on their four, it was pretty much easy. Now comes the twist when they saw a dog who is sitting on its hind legs.


The girls asked,"how to touch the tail? this one's tail is too short!"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a (rude) shock.

Pitstop cafe, one game, different perspectives

Tim

Wall of Smiles

The walls of Pitstop Cafe had gotten really crowded with photos of all the folks that had visited the cafe. We had lost track of the number of photos that are on the wall now. It must be over a few thousands photos. Thanks everyone for all your support!

To make more space for more photos, we decided to reorganize some of the photos and create our "Wall of Smiles" :)

The first step was to find a nice wall and clear the wall from the photos...


Almost forgotten about some of the nice drawings behind the photos

After clearing the wall, we started on the time consuming job of laying the tapes and relocating the photos.


Laying the tapes and organizing the photos. More tricky than i had imagined.

It was really a time consuming job and I never knew that there were so many photos!


Close up on the Wall of Smiles....


A bigger view of the wall

After half a day of work, we finally completed our first Wall of Smiles.


Can be use as a background for camera poses too!

It was really fun to create this Wall of Smiles. Although it pales in comparison with the recent "Smile because IMF is here" campaign, this wall of photos is still a unique sight. So do check it out on your next visit to the cafe.

Anyone like to make a guess on the number of photos on this part of the wall?

Pitstop Cafe, be part of the fun

astro

Birthday Girls

Time really flies. Before you know it the girls (eve and mumu) birthday are around the corner again. When come to birthdays, i can't help by being amaze at the coincidence of our birthdays. Tim and i are just a day part (9th Aug & 10 Aug) while the girls are just 2 days apart (12th Oct and 14th Oct). Maybe it is indeed true that Leos are attracted to Libras? :)

Anyway lets shout out "Happy Birthday!" to these lovely ladies!





Pitstop Cafe, where birthdays are special

astro, as usual forgotten about the birthday present for eve till the last minute. God bless him....