This week, there were five of us so we decided to try Salamanca, a game I've had a couple of years now, which is designed by Stefan Dorra and published by Zoch.

This is a tile and dobber placement game where you try to occupy castles with plenty of landscape tiles of the right type surrounding it while also trying to scupper others' chances. I completely forgot about the robber card on one of my turns when I had been passed a 10 (the highest card available to get first choice of tiles) and thought I'd save it for the next turn - fat chance of that with thieving Nige around. Nige took a fairly healthy lead but then suffered from everyone picking on him. Mark K was the other one scoring well and we thought it was probably between him and Nige for the win although Guy made a good run at the end. However, Mark K emerged as the winner although the scores ended up tighter than I thought they were going to be.

Nobody thought this was too godd a game and Mark G didn't enjoy it at all. Turns seemed pretty obvious but it still seemed to take way too long to play. However, I can now cross it off my unplayed list.