Last Thursday's gaming

We had a modest showing of seven last week. It was nice and sociable, because we fit around one large table playing two games.

Four of us played John E's new acquisition Locke & Key: The Game -- a card game with a new mechanic (to us, at least) and really nice artwork. The art is clipped directly from the comic of the same name. It was good enough that we played a second game of it.

The remaining three played Tikal. They seemed to enjoy themselves, although as everyone does, they noticed the considerable pauses as the player who's turn it is analyses their options. They opted not to play the auction variant; their loss.