I also played two rounds of No Thanks last night, with six players. I lost both games (the first with a catastrophic 74 points to my name). I think that, in both games, every single time I thought I was safe to allow another circuit around the table to get more tokens before taking a horrible card, someone else took the card and its tokens just before me – and then something equally horrible would get turned up and I’d have to take it with virtually no tokens on it at all. It was awful! I love it :)
I also played Handsome the other day, which is an ingenious micro-sized word game in just 18 cards.
And I’ve been playing a bunch of solo Cribbage on the train, which I can do with just my travel-sized board on my knees, the card box to hold the discarded cards after each hand, and everything else I can manipulate in-hand and between fingers – the remaining deck, my hand, and the crib. I can get a couple of games in on my usual train trips, so it’s my go-to option.
Also a few rounds of Calico, which is my current outdoor solo game of choice when the weather is nice (being another breeze-resistant game). I remember being a bit overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of cardboard and tokens when I bought this, and wondering whether I’d made a mistake; but with every cat stored in its own zip-lock bag it’s pretty quick to set up, and I find this a really enjoyable game to play, so I’m glad that I picked it up.