La Cheata

Tuesday games this week saw only one game played: La Citta - albeit once before and once after lunch.

An interesting game of card driven actions and tile placement, based on expanding your cities while feeding your little citizens and improving their cities with buildings that give points in education, culture and health.

They both resulted in very close scores, although they were learning games and we both made mistakes.  I narrowly won the first game and then after lunch lost by exactly the 5 points I was penalised for not being able to feed one of my citizens in the last round.

Unhappily this was deserved because I had inadvertently cheated earlier in the game through a misunderstanding or mis-hearing of a rule.

I was left with slightly mixed feelings about how long we had laboured to produce such marginal victories at the same time still feeling that it was a very well thought out and satisfying game.

As it had only cost us £7.99 between us, we were inclined to feel we had secured another bargain.