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I really like Settlers of Catan too.

Settlers was actually the first “German-style” game that I played. I suspect that that statement holds true for a lot of other people as well.

Some other really good games that I didn’t list in my earlier post —

— Small World

— Alhambra

— Civilization (the old board game from the 1980s, not the computer game — although that’s good too.)

— Scrabble (yeah, it’s not a G-S game, but it’s still fun and Eeees and I have a lot of fun playing this)

This past Shabbos, my sons and I played our first game of Wealth of Nations (my daughter elected to go to her cousins instead. 🙂 ). In Wealth of Nations, players represent heads of nations attempting to make their nation into an economic superpower. In this game, my younger son and I developed an odd symbiotic relationship in that I controlled the only banks on the board and he controlled all the generators. As a result, every turn I would end up buying energy from him with the money I generated from the bank. The older son, however, quickly took control of the capital and labor and that put him in a formidable position in the game. In the end, it turned out to be quite close, but my older son won by about three points.

The Wolf