No one gets between me and my Interwebs...
This post nearly didn't happen. For some reason our Internet connection keeps dropping out. First they said it was the modem. Then they said it was an external problem with the neighborhood amplifier. Now we're back to "It's the modem" again. Anyway, we're on the air again, for now.
In non-beard related news, finally got to play Reiner Knizia's Spiel des Jahres winning game Keltis. It's a 2-4 player boardgame version of his 2-player card game Lost Cities and has been further remade into an English version called Lost Cities: The Board Game. Whatever it's called, it's a fun little card collecting game where you're progressively building sequences of different card suits. There's also a board where you track progress and have additional scoring opportunities. Mur and I tried it with 2-player. It think it would be fun with 3 or 4 as well. Highly recommended.
Finally, in manly news, took the Pink Tornado (our daughter) to see a hockey game today. Her luck was good -- the Carolina Hurricanes managed to squeak out their first win in 15 games. No fights, though one of the 'Canes got knocked out of the game by stopping a potential goal with his body. Now that's manly.
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Hey Jim,
You should also try the Keltis expansion, 'Neue Wege, Neue Ziele'. You'll use the cards and route markers from the original game, but the expansion has a new board (with interweaving pathways that go up and down in point value) and a set collecting element with five different colors of wishing stones.
The game plays the same with the laying out of the series of coloured cards, but the strategy is very different because of the changing pathways.
I'm assuming that you have the German version of the game. I don't know if the Keltis expansion is compatible with the Lost Cities Boardgame version.