The first game we played was introduced as very similar to the video game Age of Empires, which I have played a lot of. I chose to sit at its table for that reason and I am glad I did. The game consisted of gathering resources in order to purchase cards and "hut" tiles for neanderthals to live in. The person teaching us had only played the night before and gave us strategy hints that he had observed, for example, the player who gets to go first should generally increase his agriculture, because that means guaranteed free food for the feeding phase at the end of each round. I noticed that I played with a very similar strategy as my Age of Empires games, stockpiling resources and then spending them to get large numbers of victory points. We did not get to finish the game, but I like to believe that I was well on my way to winning.
The second game was a card game called Cuarenta. It was very confusing to understand at first because we felt like we were doing things wrong (maybe we were, maybe we weren't) and we were getting the directions in sections at a time. I would have liked to see someone play an example round and then I am sure the rest of us would have asked a lot fewer questions. It was also annoying playing the rounds with only half of the directions, because our group always ran into a situation where we needed the extra directions right before they were explained and by the time we realized what we should have done differently it was too late. For example, the other team beat us 48 to 4 because they got a clear and a match in the same turn. It would have been nice to know about the mercy rule that keeps them from reaching 40 so fast after getting to 36, we might have been able to catch up a little better.
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