However, and this saddened us greatly, a minimum of three players are required. And the same went for the also highly touted Niagara. So very sad. Sometimes we can only round up a few tacos for games. So we asked a very helpful person there, (was his name Mike?), and he showed us — after lamenting that there is a great scarcity of 2-player games — a few that were good.

Lunch Money looked like fun — “A beer and pretzels sort of game”, said our guide — but 20 bucks for a throw-away card game seemed a bit much for us. The Lord of the Rings game looked interesting — “a collaborative game where the players work together against the game” — but we ultimately passed on it. And finally, we landed on Carcassonne (the original). Lots of fun, easy to learn, and takes about a half-hour to play.

The deal is you lay down tiles strategically and make a land-grab, all the while competing with your opponent(s) to make cities, roads, and cloisters. We appear to be King of the Clositers (picking up 4-5 of the 6 cloister tiles a game), thus creating Taco University on a regular basis. The Tacos played 4 games of it last night, and it was fun and different at every turn.

Btw, we asked Mike for his ultimate game recommendation (which, alas, was a minimum three player game, we think), and it is Betrayal at House on the Hill.