Nine of us this week and my group of five started with Carcassonne: South Seas, which is the first in a series of games to port the game mechanisms of the original to other geographic locations. The game is very similar but rather than completed features giving you VPs directly, they give you goods which you later sell in combinations required by the trade ships visiting the South Seas - and it is these ships that give you the bulk of your points.

Everyone enjoyed this and I think I prefer it to the original - not sure if it is quite as good as Hunters and Gatherers but it's close. Andrew won this one.