Santorini

Nathaniel and I were killing time before Matthew's swim meet and found Santorini on sale at Walmart for only 17 bucks. We opened it up after the meet and played through the basic version of the game (without the Greek gods who have powers that impact workers' movement or building). Here's a snapshot of the city we ended up with...

Nathaniel was the winner of our first game, as should be clear from this photo.

The coolest moment was when Nathaniel trapped one of Matthew's workers in the corner and effectively removed that worker from the game!

Santorini

There's a cool Kickstarter board game in the works called Santorini (click here for the page). The project has already funded (and then some!), so they're now going for various stretch goals. It's a Euro-style game (with a Greek mythology theme) in which players build buildings and try to reach the highest level first. It seems like a great game for families, and the various deity and hero cards add a lot of variety to the gameplay. I think we'll back this one!