Regulars Matt and Kathleen trundled over to play some games for the usual Tuesday night gathering. First up was one we hadn't seen for a while, Samurai. This time, we played with the captured tokens hidden, which increased the tension at the end of the game, as well as made us less prone to analyze things to death. Kathleen picked it up very quickly, and we tied in the first level of scoring, but I pulled it off with more other resources in the second. It was cool to play with four players and see the whole japanese archipelago on the table.

Laura and I had seen some success with Citadels as a two-player game, and were curious how things would go with four (seven was way too long...) Turns out it works well, we each had a good shot at winning, and the mind game was still there of who's doing what and what to pick when. I acutally like it more since a flubbed assasination is more likely to hit a card not in play than another inadvertent player, lessening the "dead time"... ;). No games next week, we'll be at Matt's enjoying the election returns on his newly purchased cable tv..