Our table turned next to Tom Lehmann's The City, a very stripped down variation on the San Juan / Race for the Galaxy idea of building up a tableau of point-scoring cards, while using other cards to pay for the cards you want to lay. This is a very quick race to gain 50+ points and if you get left behind, you stand little chance of catching up unless you've built a monster point-scoring tableau by the end. This ended up being a two horse race between Nige and me, with me just pipping him for the win with our last card lay. Probably 20 minutes playing time tops.