This week, there were seven of us and I was keen to show Istanbul to some of those that hadn't played it previously, in advance of the Kennerspiel des Jahres result. (It won by the way) We played the short routes layout and it ended very quickly, much more so than the others had expected who were trying to build an engine for later in the game. Obviously, some of the other layouts make for a longer game where building that engine is more worthwhile but it wasn't this time, as I raced to five rubies and the win with two of the others still languishing on just two rubies.