Clocktowers

This is a light filler game. I am glad that we finally played this, since I own it. I bought it because it is an Alan Moon game that I thought was Capitol-lite. For my first playing of this, I really didn’t feel the Capitolness. However, perhaps more playings of this will coax out that Capitol feeling that I was looking for. On its own, its a quick game with not much player interaction besides the usual moaning and groaning about your poor cards.

Ice Cream

This is another light filler game. The theme is about ice cream and it seems to fill it well. It bears some resemblence to Coloretto. It is playable by both kids and adults. You need to keep in mind how to set yourself up for the next round of play as you hose your opponents.

Ticket To Ride Europe

This is the next game in the Ticket to Ride series. Since the original game was so popular, it is no surprise that a franchise has been created. I like this game better than its predecessor. It has a mechanism that helps you out when your route is blocked. And it introduces new features to the game such as tunnels and ferries. In this game, I was having some bad luck trying to draw colors that I needed. When the game ended, I had many cards left over and only played about half of them. Consequently, I lost because I wasted so many turns trying to draw needed cards. This game still has some of the aspects of the original game that I did not like. They are: initial route cards may not be close to one another, and other people will cut you off in the route you are going for.

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This is still an interesting game, although I had bad luck in it. The key to winning is controlling when a “scoring” occurs. If you can do it, then you can pick up a tile that helps you and hurts others. The other part to the game is trying to match up to other tiles so you can take points from the player to your right.