Seven of us this week so we split into groups of four and three with my group of four starting with Walnut Grove. I like this game but our game was very unforgiving with a heavy penalty for heating workers in wagons on the first round. The first two players in player order immediately went for extra farmhouses while the other two took pain. Julia was one that took pain and also found herself blocked because of player order on the next turn. However, she did recover well by building up a couple of large land areas but Mark G was the king of the prairie farmers by snapping up three improvement tiles for lots of bonus points at the end. We all thought a three player set-up would be kinder, especially for a first game but, having now played it once, we ought to be more aware of the potential for nasty blocking manoeuvres and winter events.