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Back to the boardgame café.

First game of the evening was ito, clearly in the Wavelength sort of space: get a scale to rate things on, each of you thinks of a thing, try to arrange the things in order. Our feeling was that it was slightly too fiddly to be a good party game, but too party-game to be a good anything else. But if you want a more compact Wavelength you could do worse.

Then Furnace (base game only), which I taught and ran entirely from my pocketmod rulebook. Another "why haven't I played this recently?" game.

Finally Century: Spice Road, which one of us had completely missed when it came out. I couldn't help seeing a certain parallel with the engine-building of Furnace, in fact, though not enough to impair enjoyment of either game. Not a classic, for me, but agreeable for an occasional play.