Top: 1) Icehouse, in spite (or maybe because) of only getting to play it once a year. 2) Pikemen. Simple, elegant, and vicious. 3) Zendo. Top on my list of "need to play this, and soon": WW5, Zark City, Black Ice. Bottom: 1) Martian Coasters. To be fair, I don't much care for Backgammon either; strategy in both seems to be "roll high." (Backgammon adds the twist of "roll doubles.") 2) Treehouse. 3) Gnostica. -- It is in the nature of poets to misuse their sources. --John M. Ford, "The Lost Dialogue"